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Rules for Reactionaries: How to Maintain Inequality and Stop Social Justice

Rules for Reactionaries: How to Maintain Inequality and Stop Social Justice


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A tongue-in-cheek analysis of the communication strategies used to obstruct social justice movements

In our increasingly polarized society, violence and echo chambers drown out all possibility of civil discourse. Thinly veiled racism, misogyny, and homophobia dominate media coverage. Again and again, national debates on race, gender, and justice go in circles. Is our language failing us?

Rules for Reactionaries serves as both a faux guidebook for ultraconservative debaters and an analysis of their rhetorical strategies. Lee Bebout lays out how language can be manipulated by those who wish to suppress progressivism and maintain structures of inequality. Taking his readers across the turbulent political landscape of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, he delineates the rhetorical strategies that have long been used to hinder progressive movements. Bebout identifies evasive tactics such as "All Lives Matter" and "Not All Men," which promote conservative viewpoints and disrupt calls for change. It's an old problem that keeps rearing its ugly head, and the only way to disrupt it is to anticipate and identify it.

Rules for Reactionaries reveals how language both reflects and shapes our politics. By reminding us each of the power we possess, Bebout challenges us to not only combat the rhetoric of reactionaries, but to change our own way of thinking.



About the Author :
Lee Bebout is Professor of English at Arizona State University. Bebout teaches on and researches in the areas of race, social justice, and political culture. He is also the author of Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White.

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"Lee Bebout's brilliant and trenchant analysis of reactionary entrenchment and the rhetorical strategies deployed to block social change is deeply needed at this moment in our history. I can think of no better book to help us better understand our present and worsening national crisis." - Jeff Crane, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt

"Rules for Reactionaries is an essential tool for communities as they deconstruct inequity at its rhetorical foundations. Rules for Reactionaries empowers readers to better understand how the rhetorical maneuvers of reactionary entrenchment shape popular discourse and perform the ideological work of bolstering entrenched inequity. A handbook for social justice advocates, Bebout defines a taxonomy of intersectional rhetoric designed to support and espouse everyday white supremacy and offers practical approaches readers can take to reshape discourse toward a more just world." - Hannah Noel, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

"If you've been wondering how far-right fever dreams and white nationalist fantasies have become standard fare in American politics, Rules for Reactionaries is the book for you. This all-too-timely book is an indispensable guide to the rhetorical strategies that have enabled the rise of the alt-right." - Michael Bérubé, author of The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781479829521
  • Publisher: New York University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Width: 127 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1479829528
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: How to Maintain Inequality and Stop Social Justice


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