Showing Their Buts

Episode 15 of the Half the Answer podcast, hosted by Liberal Currents, titled "Showing Their Buts" was published on May 28, 2025 and runs 107 minutes.

May 28, 2025 ·107m · Half the Answer

Summary

Trent and Caitlin talk to…each other??? Caitlin presents the reasoning behind her recent Liberal Currents essay on the rhetorical strategies used by pundits and politicians when they don’t want to appear unsympathetic to trans people but won’t commit to supporting the full range of human and civil rights for this group. They discuss other current political issues and whether they have any of these rhetorical strategies in common.Resources:Caitlin’s essay: https://liberalcurrents.com/showing-their-buts-the-false-compassion-of-the-concerned/ The Rhetoric of Reaction: https://hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674768680Creating Scientific Controversies: https://cambridge.org/core/books/creating-scientific-controversies/6A9153090CC4274FEF0D7DF7C7F10B9D Manufactured scientific controversies: https://jstor.org/stable/41940538 Chait’s article: https://theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/transgender-rights-election-public-opinon/680813/ Young’s article: https://persuasion.community/p/how-to-navigate-transgender-issues Yglesias’s post: https://slowboring.com/p/men-and-women-are-different Newsom/Kirk interview: https://youtu.be/9XJ6rQDRKGA?si=TOonDH1H5XqvvbnL Newsom/Savage interview: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GACk33zWQtQ Welfare use by immigrants: https://cis.org/Report/Welfare-Use-Immigrants-and-USBorn Economics of immigration: https://udallcenter.arizona.edu/immigration/publications/impactofimmigrants08.pdf

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