I make a difference between the minority ruling that all should be treated equally, and the minority ruling that other people can't be doing 'X' because then we'd be acting like a certain group of people and that group is bad.
londo and I were discussing this last night... hopefully he'll hop on and add his comment. If not I'll summarize for him later.
Not exactly. Like nearly every political strategy ever used, the left hit on it first, but it's the right that's perfecting it. But, yes, it's totally the same strategy, just applied in the other direction.
Okay. Now that I think about it, that's not the best example. I don't want to open a can of gender war worms. Anywho, the point is that the minority should still have rights. It doesn't matter if it's the left or the right. We have to have wiggle room for everyone.
Okay, I can't find the original comment or who it was by, but it was basically a reference to the, ""You just keep playing with it and it becomes customary," comment... So now instead of letting their kids dress up as members of the opposite gender to become "accustomed" to being gay (or whatever), they're having their kids dress up in camo to become "accustomed" to soldiers/military members/etc... scary.
I read an interesting article about French politics and their comparison to American politics throughout history recently. Apparently, on financial issues, France has traditionally tried to mimic American policy decisions. Recently (the past decade or so), they've had to deal with more social political decisions, however, and the standard French practice has become one of differentiation from American policy.
God shit like that makes me want to scream *deep breaths* Why in the hell can't it just be said that the bitch that shit on everyone's parade be told that her kids can look like tards,and go to school dressed as they normally would,while everyone else has fun?!Instead one fucking person gets her way,and ruins it for everyone else??
Yes, but it's in a journal of politics. I'm not sure where you'd find it; I found it through my school's online research database. Hence, school id. I'll send you a copy of the article sometime.
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on 17 Nov 2004 13:45 (UTC)no subject
on 17 Nov 2004 21:55 (UTC)Rather than the 'everyone else is jumping off the bridge' kind of way.
The fact that you brought up the left makes me think, at least subtextually, you meant the second.
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on 18 Nov 2004 05:42 (UTC)no subject
on 18 Nov 2004 06:13 (UTC)no subject
on 18 Nov 2004 06:14 (UTC)Moral relativism is a tricky beast.
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on 19 Nov 2004 14:33 (UTC)no subject
on 19 Nov 2004 14:37 (UTC)no subject
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on 19 Nov 2004 14:37 (UTC)(What's with all my worm references?)
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on 19 Nov 2004 23:29 (UTC)no subject
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on 17 Nov 2004 13:57 (UTC)no subject
on 17 Nov 2004 14:19 (UTC)Dude, ruffles won't make your kids' "wing-wang" fall off.
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on 17 Nov 2004 14:35 (UTC)no subject
on 18 Nov 2004 06:06 (UTC)Okay, I can't find the original comment or who it was by, but it was basically a reference to the, ""You just keep playing with it and it becomes customary," comment... So now instead of letting their kids dress up as members of the opposite gender to become "accustomed" to being gay (or whatever), they're having their kids dress up in camo to become "accustomed" to soldiers/military members/etc... scary.
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on 17 Nov 2004 17:13 (UTC)no subject
on 17 Nov 2004 21:58 (UTC)Puritanical moral roots. Yay!
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on 18 Nov 2004 06:02 (UTC)no subject
on 18 Nov 2004 08:45 (UTC)Why in the hell can't it just be said that the bitch that shit on everyone's parade be told that her kids can look like tards,and go to school dressed as they normally would,while everyone else has fun?!Instead one fucking person gets her way,and ruins it for everyone else??
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on 19 Nov 2004 23:31 (UTC)no subject
on 20 Nov 2004 05:18 (UTC)I need more of that in my life.