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Europeans are right to feel insecure as they go back into recession but let's not pretend that civil rights in the US, while not perfect, has not made massive s
by happyscrappy 12y ago
Europeans are right to feel insecure as they go back into recession but let's not pretend that civil rights in the US, while not perfect, has not made massive strides in the seventy years preceding the election of Obama.
- jacquesm 12y ago> Europeans are right to feel insecure as they go back into recession What's that got to do with the price of tea in China? You seem to grasp at every opportunity to harp on the 'recession in Europe', the subject here is LGBT rights in case you failed to notice. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=happyscrappy https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=happyscrappy Civil rights in the US have indeed made massive strides in the past 70 years, but there is still a long long way to go. I'd hate to be born black and/or gay in roughly 50% of the US states today.
- mattlutze 12y agoLet's not have a "my area is more tolerant than yours" devolution. There's been consideration quite recently in Germany, for example, that maybe it's not such a great idea that people need to put their photograph on their resumes, given hiring managers' tendencies to hire traditionally German-looking males over other races/sexes. Names are still an issue in both countries, but the US has tended away from such practice due to our expansive Employment Equal Opportunity laws. But, etc. etc., everyone's got a ways to go for LGBT and other rights before we're all really inclusive.