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> I doubt you could find a woman, disable person, or LGBTQ+ person who seriously would rather spend their life in 1970s America than 2020s America. That's not

> I doubt you could find a woman, disable person, or LGBTQ+ person who seriously would rather spend their life in 1970s America than 2020s America. That's not what I meant and, I think, not what I said. I did not say that we _had_ rolled back those rights, but that we were in the _process_ of doing so. Rather than moving in the direction of liberation for these groups, we are moving in the opposite direction, at least in some places, and more relevantly for this discussion, that politics of oppression is normative in the right-wing party here. Graham's essay is explicitly aimed at the left, yet effectively elucidates the precise tactics and goals of the right.

temp8964 5y ago
- NoraCodes 5y ago
  > pushing back against those dangerous radical ideas are not going to lead to "roll back" of any rights. I am referring specifically to Thomas looking to overturn Obergefell [1], TN trying to legalize child marriage [2], and current Republican efforts to reduce the effectiveness of the ADA. These are concrete examples of the right attempting to roll back certain rights. > do you agree 100% with critical race theory? It's an academic framework, not a set of policy goals, and I didn't study that in my CS curriculum, so I can't really speak to it. Can you? > do you agree 100% with LGBTQ activists? The vast majority of the policies they propose seem quite reasonable, yes. 1: https://www.educationviews.org/clarence-thomas-signals-willingness-to-overturn-obergefell-v-hodges/ https://www.educationviews.org/clarence-thomas-signals-willi... 2: https://www.wlbt.com/2022/04/06/proposed-legislation-could-legalize-child-marriage-tennessee/ https://www.wlbt.com/2022/04/06/proposed-legislation-could-l...
  - jefftk 5y ago
    > TN trying to legalize child marriage I understand that's the view the article is presenting, but if you read it closely, it really doesn't sound like that's what the TN Republicans are advocating: “What in your legislation would stop a 16-year-old from going down with someone else to the courthouse and getting this done, since there’s no age restriction within your law?” asked Rep. Harris. “I think it would be construed that minors would not be able to enter into this,” Leatherwood (the Republican proposing the bill) replied.
  - mwcampbell 5y ago
    > current Republican efforts to reduce the effectiveness of the ADA Would you mind providing a link for this one as you did for the others? This one particularly interests me. Granted, maybe the fact that I'm asking means I just don't follow the news enough.

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NoraCodes 5y ago
> pushing back against those dangerous radical ideas are not going to lead to "roll back" of any rights. I am referring specifically to Thomas looking to overturn Obergefell [1], TN trying to legalize child marriage [2], and current Republican efforts to reduce the effectiveness of the ADA. These are concrete examples of the right attempting to roll back certain rights. > do you agree 100% with critical race theory? It's an academic framework, not a set of policy goals, and I didn't study that in my CS curriculum, so I can't really speak to it. Can you? > do you agree 100% with LGBTQ activists? The vast majority of the policies they propose seem quite reasonable, yes. 1: https://www.educationviews.org/clarence-thomas-signals-willingness-to-overturn-obergefell-v-hodges/ https://www.educationviews.org/clarence-thomas-signals-willi... 2: https://www.wlbt.com/2022/04/06/proposed-legislation-could-legalize-child-marriage-tennessee/ https://www.wlbt.com/2022/04/06/proposed-legislation-could-l...
- jefftk 5y ago
  > TN trying to legalize child marriage I understand that's the view the article is presenting, but if you read it closely, it really doesn't sound like that's what the TN Republicans are advocating: “What in your legislation would stop a 16-year-old from going down with someone else to the courthouse and getting this done, since there’s no age restriction within your law?” asked Rep. Harris. “I think it would be construed that minors would not be able to enter into this,” Leatherwood (the Republican proposing the bill) replied.
- mwcampbell 5y ago
  > current Republican efforts to reduce the effectiveness of the ADA Would you mind providing a link for this one as you did for the others? This one particularly interests me. Granted, maybe the fact that I'm asking means I just don't follow the news enough.