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Well, you had that last bit right.
Which constitutional rights are republicans trying to take away exactly? Last I checked, it was dems that have an issue with the right to free speech and the right to bear arms
Fuck the US constitution, it was written by slave owning trash. Fuck ”muh freeze peach” too, Nazis should not be allowed to speak freely or breathe oxygen.
At which point did you realize you're a raging authoritarian?
Defender of Nazis and slave owners, eh? Interesting 🤔
Lol I'm not defending Nazis, I'm defending free speech. If you can't see the difference,maybe you're the one that shouldn't be allowed to speak
Shit did I miss a memo? Are we doing a bit where we defend the morality of the US constitution? Hold on everyone, I call the 13th amendment!
Do you have a moral qualm with the abolishment of slavery?
It didn't abolish slavery though.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/13th-amendment
Cherry-picked and taken out of context
Here is the full context which still permits slavery so long as you've done a crime(and what counts as a crime can be modified to get the exact amount of slave labor you need)
It abolished racial slavery
No it didn't.
Source
Now we're just arguing semantics. I'm arguing that the 13th amendment abolished racial slavery in the way we think of racial slavery, like generic, history class, cotton field slavery that supported the south's economy before the civil war. You're arguing that the powers that be essentially found a way to continue slavery under a new guise. That has a lot of merit, its just not what I was talking about in my earlier comments.
Secondly, thanks for proving my point. Look at who the largest demographic is on that chart you posted
Inb4 "but compare the percentage incarcerated to the percentage in the population"
Direct quote from the article: "58.70% of the prison population is white, which includes Hispanic Americans."
Except that most people consider Hispanic ethnically different from your run-of-the-mill white people, and most leftist talk a lot about racial disparity towards Hispanics as being similar to racial disparity against blacks. These are pretty poor statistics to support your argument
You're arguing semantics. If the US state simply found a work-around to continue racial slavery, then they are still doing racial slavery. Full stop.
I don't get your point on Hispanic Americans being included in that demographic as proving your point. If we consider Hispanics a racial minority, which they are, then these numbers only give further merit to the fact that racial slavery is still practiced in Amerikkka.
The simple answer to that is don't go to prison. Be a law-abiding citizen, you won't become a slave in the prison system. Something certain demographics can't seem to wrap their minds around
I don't know, like the right of women to decide over their own body?
The right for trans people to exist?
The right for drag queens to be seen in public?
But having to wear protection during a fucking pandemic is the real right that has been taken away, amiright?
If by "right of women to make decision for their own bodies" you mean "making irresponsible sexual decisions and then killing the resulting child", that's a pretty poor excuse for a right. What about that child's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Most lefties wanna take that away from a child before the child is even born. And sure, we could argue at what point a human life is a human life, but we both know we're not gonna change each other's minds on that, so let's skip that part please. I would also like to remind you that the majority of abortions are elective. Doesn't seem right to me to take away the life of a child for the bad decisions of the mother
The argument against trans identity from the right is three fold: first, most right wingers don't want to be told what we are and aren't allowed to say on the topic. Especially those of us that are religious, because trans identity conflicts with our religious identity, and there is no getting around that. Most of us are happy enough to agree to disagree and go on our way. Its when lgbt activist behind screaming that we're hateful bigots and somehow contributing to a trans genocide simply by being ourselves and believing what we believe that we begin to feel attacks ourselves and speak out against gender ideology. Secondly, there's the issue of medical malpractice. This is usually the stance of the righties who don't subscribe to the "live and let live" mentality surrounding gender transitioning. You can lookup countless stories of detransitioners who experienced this medical malpractice. You'd literally have to bury your head in the sand to not see this. And the third and biggest part of the issue is that lgbt activists are targeting children with this ideology. Just look up the actual effects that puberty blockers have on kids and you'll get an idea of why this is a problem to most righties. Cuz children walk away from that treatment with brittle bone syndrome, micropenises, their growth stunted, and their depression excaserbated by the time their 18. And all of that actually starts even before treatment with parents who push gender ideology on their kids from a young age, practically insuring this fate for their children and then saying "no, it was their choice!" just because their son played with a barbie once when he was 2.
Inb4 "but Christians do the same thing to their children!!!!!!!"
Yeah, whatever. Never been true, never will be.
Most righties don't care about drag queens. I mean, we think those dudes are weirdos, but whatever, as long as you don't bring that stuff around me or my family, its not an issue. All the red states that are passing laws against drag shows right now are passing laws against st drag performances in front of kids. If you're telling me your identity is under attack simply because you can't do weird sexual stuff in front of children, that says more about you than it does about me
As I've said, no one is telling you that you can't masks, vax, get boosters, lock yourself away, whatever you wanna do to make yourself feel safe. There are simply those of us who are saying that we don't want to do those things to our own bodies and don't want to be forced or coerced into doing those things with our own bodies. That's all. And I guess we're also saying that there's plenty of evidence out there to show that those measures aren't all that effective anyways, but we've also figured out by now that lefties don't wanna listen to that anyways