My home state, North Carolina, has just enacted a perfectly appalling law designed to stop transgendered people from using public toilets. [It is written in such a manner that it virtually outlaws any protections against any sort of discrimination at all, but never mind that .] In response, my son, Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff, has just published this essay in The Nation.
Take a look.
By the way, there are many places in France with public toilets that are available to both men and women -- cabinets with doors. No one freaks out, no children's lives are ruined. Just sayin'.
North Carolina really is a godawful place to live.
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The following books by Robert Paul Wolff are available on Amazon.com as e-books: KANT'S THEORY OF MENTAL ACTIVITY, THE AUTONOMY OF REASON, UNDERSTANDING MARX, UNDERSTANDING RAWLS, THE POVERTY OF LIBERALISM, A LIFE IN THE ACADEMY, MONEYBAGS MUST BE SO LUCKY, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF FORMAL METHODS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.
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2 comments:
Only lately. We used to have Terry Sanford.
My friend Barry wrote this yesterday:
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/why-north-carolinas-bathroom-bill-debate-feels-all-too-familiar/Content?oid=5009433
This is a case that calls for a good psychoanalyst.
They're people like Trump, obsessed with the size or shape of their genitals.
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