So imagine conservatives are out there telling each other:

First they gave women rights, and I did nothing.

Then they gave black people rights, and I did nothing.

Then Obama gave consenting adults the right to get married, and I did nothing.

Then Hillary gave trans people rights, and I did nothing.

Then QAnon told me I needed to act—and there was no one left to bully.

After trans people, who's next on the basic human right's agenda?

  • ppb [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    well it's the current civil rights struggle, I'm just asking who's next.

    • sellmetherope [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I feel like we never actually did civil rights for black people

      Everyone kind of remembers that happening but like did it?

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        civil rights, as being nominally equal before the law, definitely happened. it's just that civil rights are a very minor part of actually enjoying human rights.

        for example, women in East Germany did not only have free access to abortions, they also had maternal leave and free access to daycare shelters (often purposefully built right next to their workplace if they had industrial jobs). whether they wanted a child or not was actually their free decision, as they did not have to worry about who takes care of the child and who brings home the money to feed them. that was taken care of. you didn't need a man, you could be a single mom without constantly having to struggle and to worry, as jobs were secure and payed a living wage. and if you still didn't want the baby in spite of that, if you just didn't want to be a mother, that was your choice. but it was a choice you didn't have to make simply because you didn't know how to make ends meet for your child. there was no economic necessity for poor women to abort their child, because that level of poverty had been eradicated. that is what women having autonomy over their own body looks like.