• isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 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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      16 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.