The public insult playbook : how abusers in power undermine civil rights reform / Ruth Colker.

"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 Rut...

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Main Author: Colker, Ruth (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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Physical Description:x, 265 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Insults : a power tool for power bullies -- Headwinds, deflections and dead weights in action -- Drive by litigators or accessibility heroes? -- Immigrants as murderers and rapists -- Pedophiles or welcome entrants to the institution of marriage -- Abortion -- Anita Hill and the #MeToo movement -- Black lives matter. 
520 |a "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. The book catalogues how public insults have been used against people with disabilities, immigrants, pregnant women, women seeking abortions, women who are sexually harassed, members of the LGBTQ community and, of course, Black Americans; we see how completely the tactic has been adopted and embraced by the American right wing. 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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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