Sounds like we’ll be relying on ID politics until people like you decide marginalized groups no longer need protection. Which will be never.
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Once you’ve created this framework it becomes an endless necessity to define and defend people you perceive to be marginalized.
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And despite your lofty intentions, it’s your approach that is ultimately divisive
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[Thread] 1/ As a gay man, let me respectfully suggest that your perspective may be skewed.
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2/ "LGBT rights" are a simple request to be treated the same as straight people: To marry. Buy/rent a house. Hold a job.
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3/ Be parents. To be a full part of the community. We do not seek to divide anyone. We want equality and unity.
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4/ It is conservatives who use the label of "special rights" to malign our request for equal rights.
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5/ It is conservatives who tell straight people that gay people want "special treatment". That gay people "destroy marriage".
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6/ It is conservatives who seek to keep gays from being a full part of the community with full and equal rights.
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7/ So I submit to you that gays do not use "identity politics" in order to be divisive.
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8/ Rather it is conservatives who use "identity politics" to maintain a political & social division where gays are second-class citizens.
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9/ I do not presume to speak for other marginalized groups, but I suspect they would argue much the same.
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10/ So I suggest that the cause of any "identity politics" "division" rests not with the marginalized but with the unease of the empowered.
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