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Thank you for using the correct word, privileges, and not the incorrect word, rights. The issue isn't about rights, its about equal treatment and equal privile

by jrs235 13y ago

Thank you for using the correct word, privileges, and not the incorrect word, rights. The issue isn't about rights, its about equal treatment and equal privileges. However, I disagree with you on "It is not possible to support Prop 8 without treating gay people as though they are not people." That would be like saying "It is not possible to support progressive tax rates without treating 'rich' people as though they are not people."

fennecfoxen 13y ago
On the topic of loaded words, the Wall Street Journal this morning had a front-page above-the-fold piece quoting Anil Dash: "The 'mob'? Seriously? Would you say that someone who tried to criminalize your marriage was fit to lead you?" Results of Prop 8, to wit: No one was charged with a felony. No one was charged with a misdemeanor. No one was charged with an infraction. No one was fined, arrested, detained, or jailed. Criminalization!!! (Determining whether "the mob" that forced Eich to step down, the phrase against which Dash protests, is similarly loaded or not: is left as an exercise to the HN reader.)