• Walters, Fern@bookwyr.me
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    5 days ago

    Society right now, recognizes that rights are only for the rich, not you and I. Appealing to the rich is what you’re asking us to continue.
    In talking about back breaks, why do the rich continue to break ours?

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      5 days ago

      And yet, if our ancestors had had your attitude, none of the civil rights victories of the last century would have happened. It’s self-defeating.

      Gay marriage was only won a little over a decade ago. That was not in any way a belief that only the rich deserve rights.

      Put away the Marxist crack pipe. I’m pretty leftist myself, but leftists often get way too myopically focused on just economic issues.

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        4 days ago

        My ancestors answered our genocide in the only language the mainstream speak.
        Ida B. Wells on riffles
        Stonewall riots
        Stonewall violence
        Marsha P Johnson and friend, Christopher Street Liberation Day, NYC, 1976 (Credit: Biscayne/Kim Peterson)
        gay rights liberation front
        Appealing to your oppression is why you’re oppressed.