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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
We've had this argument before, but the only basis for those civil rights advances was that they were demanding rights that should be afforded to everyone regardless of their identity and that they shouldn't be treated differently - the argument being that there was nothing different or special about being a woman or a black person that should result in you having different rights from men or whites. Again, at its core, human rights... Do you really want to have this whole debate all over again?
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Yes, but what's inherent in any of those movements is that they were being treated differently based on their identities. How is that not identity politics? The crux of the issue is, "we're being treated differently because of x characteristic, and that's wrong." I get what you're saying if we're talking about preferential treatment and reparations but this isn't that.
This is the same argument we're making in the abortion debate. Everyone should have equal rights to bodily autonomy, but women currently don't and thus they are hit with unnecessary hardships as a result of this.