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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
'Positive rights' will never get much traction in Canada, besides the treaty rights and other deals negotiated for Natives (which aren't especially popular these days either). We have the liberty to be treated as individuals today because we de-emphasized sub-group identities. It's a good thing Catholics aren't regarded first and foremost as Catholics, and women aren't treated differently by the law than men. There's no political appetite outside academia and the grievance industry for the government to use identity politics to remake the socio-economic landscape. Not least because most people who are members of 'disadvantaged groups' themselves want nothing to do with it.
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I don't really agree that positive rights, even if intended to be redistributive, are dependent on identity politics. That kind of thinking is rather lazy and disingenuous.