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boobs4victory: hobo42: peace-after-revolution: acornfarm: defilerwyrm: AHAHAHA NOT QUITE, OP, NOT QUITE FUCKING NAILED IT Yeah if you make something about a one-to-one into a many-to-one thing, of course it’s sexist or racist. Try to stay within the scope of the argument/statement here. The argument is an attempt to weaken civil liberty protections. It is the same tired old Anti-PC argument from the 90’s that sounds about 10% true but is a bunch of bullshit. If the message is Be Excellent to Each Other, then you use this cartoon:

But by couching the argument as being about Racism and Sexism, the argument suddenly becomes we don’t need these protections and it is alright to fire someone for the color of their skin, or to pay a woman less for the same work. Maybe I’m not understanding what you’re saying and that’s totally possible, hell, maybe you don’t understand what I am saying, but maybe if I try to clarify what I was attempting to say it will help. What I was saying is that in the original drawing, it’s more about Person A is saying something to Person B and that’s it, you could see each Person as blobs of grey matter if you wanted. It wasn’t about a white dude telling a black dude he’s worthless because he’s black, he was telling that dude, who so happened to be black, that he’s worthless because he finds that person to be worthless, yet the response drawing made it about white people in general telling black people in general they are worthless, they removed the Person A to Person B concept and replaced it with Race A to Race B which is whole different scope. In the Girl to Boy one the point I saw was that a Girl can joke to the Boy that “You boys are stupid”, but if the Boy were to say that to the Girl it’s now a sexist statement rather than a joke, and in the response comic they didn’t even go over it being a joke they simply made it about Males in general saying Females are stupid. Again replacing Person of Gender A & Person of Gender B for Group of Gender A & Group of Gender B, which is, again, a different and much larger scope. The way I see it, the original drawing is more about equality across the board and I really don’t see how supporting that argument will lead to the weakening of civil liberties and more opportunity to be fired or pay them less because of their race or gender, hell it seems it would make it much harder to do so because everyone would be seen as equal. I agree there is plenty of White people saying Black people are lesser people, and plenty of males saying that females are lesser people too, but I think the response comic really blew it out of portion and changed the focus of the point being originally made.

You don’t need a complicated diagram to explain, “be nice to each other”. It is fairly self explanatory. That is not what this cartoon is.

This cartoon is part of a concerted effort to undermine civil rights protections. And we know because this is the same old tired argument they always make. It sounds like equality but it really isn’t. Republicans pushed a very similar argument in the 90’s when they were attacking Affirmative Action.

The Voting Rights Act was challenged and came before the Supreme Court last month where Justice Scalia referred to the act as “Racial Entitlement” because he is a trolling asshole like that.

The Voting Rights Act requires states on the no-fly list to run changes to voting rules in their states by the justice department to ensure that these new rules and procedures would not disenfranchise minorities. The states made it onto the no-fly list (my name not theirs) for having a long history of disenfranchising minority voters.

Florida and Ohio are not on that list and they really should be. In 2000, Jeb Bush took 40,000 black voters off the rolls because they had either a first name or last name in common with a convicted felon. At that time blacks were voting Democrat by like 70% or 80%. The final vote count when the Supreme Court halted the counts had Bush by like 400 votes. In 2004 the Republican Secretary of State of Ohio limited the number of voting places in black neighborhoods and near universities and allowed fewer voting machines in those same voting places than in white neighborhoods where the vote was expected to go Republican. Also hundreds of thousands of black voters were removed from the rolls in both Florida and Ohio. And surprisingly enough, Bush won again.

This last year laws to limit people voting were passed in several states. These laws often target minorities, often secretly. They don’t have to write the words, “black people can’t vote”, they just know that if a large percentage of black people don’t have a driver’s license, then by requiring a driver’s license they can eliminate a bunch of black voters. Before the Voting Rights Act, many southern states would require black voters to pass a literacy exam before voting.

In one SW state last year, the Secretary of State sent out voter information cards in Spanish that listed the day to vote as being the day after the election.

Our country is not in a place where we can reduce racism/sexism down to a trite people should be nice to each other. Racism in this country is the most overt it has been since 1968 when blacks and civil rights workers were killed for challenging the establishment. During the health care debate, far more customers than I could possibly count would see Obama’s face on the cover of the Star Magazine and say they hope someone killed him. Because he is black, and trying to give them healthcare.

And as a woman, your rights are constantly under assault. Women are half the population but you are unable to stop legislators from stealing your rights. Kind should not be your default setting. Pissed should be.

Maybe 20 years from now when the people of my generation are half dead, and the old fucks of previous generations are nearly all dead, maybe people will have socially evolved past this, but right now racism is the worst it has been in my lifetime. The worst it has been since 1968 with the killings and riots, 3 years before I was born.

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