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Category Archives: Civil Rights
The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for American Civil Rights Icon Authority
Both documents sharpen the framing considerably, and document 46 in particular has the right instincts about structure and cadence. Here is what they add. The most useful sharpening is the explicit articulation that the system needs both sides. A system … Continue reading
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Decoding Civil Rights
The rise of civil rights in America follows the exact trajectory of a move from the profane to the sacred. Civil rights began as a set of specific, profane demands for policy changes regarding voting and labor. Using Jeffrey Alexander’s … Continue reading
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How’s it working out for the elite to extend civil rights laws and government investigation and litigation into more of our personal lives?
ChatGPT says: Poorly, and the failure is accelerating. Alliance Theory says extending civil rights law from public accommodation and employment into ever more private, expressive, and intimate domains was a strategic overreach. It solved short-term elite coordination problems and created … Continue reading
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The Fight Over Rights
As long as the right fights the left over rights such as civil rights, moral rights, human rights, it will lose. Gemini: Using the framework of Alliance Theory and Stephen Turner’s critique of expertise, shifting the discussion is not just … Continue reading
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The Civil Rights Revolution & Reaction
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory sees the civil rights movement as a successful elite-led coalition shift, followed by a counter-realignment once the new order threatened existing power balances. Before the 1950s, segregation persisted not mainly because of mass Southern opinion, but … Continue reading
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Liberals Applauded When Civil Rights Reoriented The Basis Of American Life
Gemini: Sam Tanenhaus, in his recent biography, Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, delves into how civil rights played a pivotal role in shaping and reorienting the basis of American life, especially within the conservative movement led … Continue reading
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Woke Institutions is Just Civil Rights Law
Richard Hananiah writes: Liberals control institutions because they care more about politics, a disparity that grew larger around 2016. This makes attempts to use government (i.e., bureaucracy!) to take back the culture unlikely to succeed, at least in the short … Continue reading
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Did you know that the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 was drafted at Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (@theRAC)?
ReformJudaism.org tweets: “Did you know that the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 was drafted at Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (@theRAC)? Today, our commitment to modern-day #civilrights continues, strong as ever.”
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