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The Public Insult Playbook - How Abusers in Power Undermine Civil Rights Reform (Hardcover)
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The Public Insult Playbook - How Abusers in Power Undermine Civil Rights Reform (Hardcover)
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When they go low, we learn: an examination of mudslinging in
contemporary American politics-and how the left can find its
footing to achieve structural reform in this mess. The rules of the
public discourse game have changed, and The Public Insult Playbook
argues that the political left needs to account for the power of
vitriol in crafting their theories for social and political change.
With this book, noted constitutional law expert and disability
rights advocate Ruth Colker offers insights into how public insults
have come to infect contemporary public discourse-a technique not
invented by but certainly refined by Donald Trump-and, importantly,
highlights lessons learned and tools for fighting back. Public
insults act as a headwind and dead weight to structural reform. By
showcasing the power of insults across a number of civil rights
battlegrounds, The Public Insult Playbook uncovers the structural
nature of personal attacks, and offers a blueprint for a legal and
political strategy that anticipates the profound but poorly
understood damage they can inflict to whole movements. Illustrating
how completely the tactic has been adopted and embraced by the
American right wing, the book catalogues how public insults have
been used against people with disabilities, immigrants, people
seeking abortions, individuals who are sexually harassed, members
of the LGBTQ community, and, of course, Black Americans. These
examples demonstrate both the pervasiveness of the deployment of
insults by the political right and the ways in which the left has
been caught flat-footed by this tactic. She then uses the Black
Lives Matter movement as a case study to consider how to
effectively counter these insults and maintain an emphasis on
structural reform.
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