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[Continuing to quote from the same thread as yesterday...]

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"Maybe we made a mistake in calling things 'rights.' That word makes it seem like it's natural--something you can just assume is yours even though people can and will take it. Something you don't have to protect because it's supposedly self-evident.

"I talked to a lot of people while canvassing who thought we'd settled civil 'rights' and women's 'rights' and that was the end of that. 'They're 'rights' now, so why should we concern ourselves with those things? I'm going to vote my conscience!' Those 'rights' are tenuous, as any non-white person or any woman of any race who's ever gone to a Planned Parenthood for a pap smear can tell you. Your 'rights' have no meaning to angry evangelical white people.

"And those same angry evangelical white people now have control of all three branches of government.

"And because you slept on it, you will not have those 'rights' unless you are prepared to rip them from the cold, putrified fists of those white evangelicals. Stop telling me and everyone else that it'll all be OK -- that it'll just work itself out in the end. It won't. [...]"

-- Kara Calavera (@KaraCalavera), 2018-06-29 ( original on Twitter | gathered by Threadreader)