LGBTQ+ rights have long been at the mercy of public opinion. This November will be no different.
LGBTQ+ rights have long been at the mercy of public opinion. This November will be no different.
For decades, LGBTQ+ rights have been put on the line to drive out conservative votes.
If your rights can be determined by other people you do not have rights
Isn't that also the definition of rights? If you were in a vacuum, then you would be free from everything.
I mean, that is a definition of rights.
Rights that can be instantly taken away mean almost nothing. What good is my right to do something, such as be queer, when a bunch of cishet people can just say “alright, now you can’t exercise your right to be enby or trans or otherwise gender non-conforming, or be in a non-heteronormative relationship because a large enough portion of bigots decided you can’t.”
Those rights don’t mean shit unless they can’t be taken away. If they can, they are little more than privileges granted to us from cishet people because they felt bad for being oppressive.
It is fundamental to the democratic form of government that “rights are at the mercy of public opinion.” The other options are for rights to be at the mercy of capricious monarchs, dictators, or oligarchs.
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I don't need anyone that watched a video of Palestinians getting burned alive tell me that they're concerned about my rights. If a person's concern for human rights stops at the US border they don't care about anyones rights.