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Gay Marriage Sinks Miss California's shot at Crown
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on May 03, 2009, 07:58:50 pm ---I don't speak for Jess, but IMO the PC crowd is only tangentially concerned about equal treatment under the law for gays or anyone else for that matter. The secular religion called "Political Correctness" is primarily concerned with establishing and wielding power and control, esp over those whom they have identified as being Politically Incorrect. Some of the techniques the PC crowd uses are censorship and vilification of their targeted enemies, esp when it helps them fundraise in order to manipulate the electoral system.
IMO it is absurdly naive to judge the PC crowd by their stated goals of tolerance and inclusion - the stated goals of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union "sounded" on the whole to be admirable, and naive fools in the West were for a time conned into giving support for Marxism.
PC should to be judged only how it limits liberty and freedom of speech, how it treats individuals, and how it fosters the tyranny of the unelected bureaucracy where it has been implemented.
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Well, I don't know how to answer you Bill because I don't know any people who are part of a "PC correct crowd" ( I believe this to be a fictitious group, much like the "gay conspiracy" group). I only know people who are for civil rights for gay people and those who are against.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: injest on May 03, 2009, 07:47:50 pm ---but some people would feel that having the right to not be sold to be more pressing then the right to vote
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--- Quote ---and THOSE people have a right to their belief that voting isn't as important to them and the right to say so!
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I've no idea what you mean.
Someone's civil rights are not on an 'as needed' basis. Either you have them or you don't.
injest:
so, won't say? I expected that. You're all for putting down this that and the other "liberal agenda" for gaining rights and then condemning people for agitating for them. This isn't about political correctness, as much as you would like to repaint it as a political correctness argument.
well it isn't a 'civil rights' issue as much as you would like to repaint it as a such. Miss USA has no ability to prevent anyone from getting married. She is being attacked for having an opinion you do not like. THAT is political correctness. She has a right to her opinion. Perez has a right to HIS opinion..even YOU have a right to your opinion. where freedom comes in, is when none of us tries to tell another their opinion is wrong.
louisev:
I think by "it" you mean the civil right to marry? I'd call it a civil right.
injest:
no "IT" refers to the subject of the thread....Miss California's answer...which has very little to do with what civil rights anyone has.
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