When late night host Seth Myers likened the issue of transgender bathroom laws to Jim Crow-style racial segregation this week, he joined a growing list of media personalities who've made the exact comparison.
"[F]ighting over bathrooms is the oldest move in the Prejudice Playbook," the comedian said Wednesday.
"America has a long history of using bathrooms to scare people," he continued. "[A]fter the Civil War, Jim Crow laws forced African-Americans to use different bathroom than white Americans and then, in the 1980s, there was a movement to keep gay men from using public restrooms, because people were afraid they'd catch AIDS from a toilet seat."
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