That is so bizarre. “You murder puppies and you wear white socks!”
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Replying to @PyesMusings @HickeyWriter and
Transphobia has at this point fully become a toxic British identity thing, like it's a specific feature of their right wing in particular they take pride in It's like Americans and gun rights
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Replying to @newatch @arthur_affect and
Siri, show me “someone who thinks a stalking horse fools anyone”
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Replying to @newatch @ninjacodemonkey and
...Yes, they are one of the most basic examples of a "stalking horse" If I had to explain what the old fashioned term "stalking horse" meant to someone I'd say "It's like when someone engineers a test case to go to the Supreme Court and set a precedent"
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Replying to @newatch @ninjacodemonkey and
It's a strategy, yes I talk about this all the time - it's worth mythbusting the Rosa Parks case and seeing how the sausage gets made The NAACP played respectability politics with Parks, deliberately choosing her as a plaintiff over other people because of optics
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Replying to @arthur_affect @newatch and
She was middle class, educated, married, no priors They thought her story would play well to white America There was another woman who wanted them to take her case but they ended up turning her down because she was a single mom and their opponents would've used that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @newatch and
Not quite. Claudette Colvin didn't give birth until about a year after her incident -- which was nine months before Rosa Parks. She was a teenager, and wasn't regarded as reliable. (Colvin was also part of the lawsuit that desegregated Alabama buses.)https://www.npr.org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin …
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Ah, thanks for the clarification
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