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In reply to the discussion: I'm done, too. [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)It tells you nothing about their political ideology. That is disclosed through their views on issues.
When you make a point of telling people their rights, indeed their existence, is insignificant, you can hardly be surprised if they don't see you as on their side. Isn't the point of such statements to erase women like me, RQ, and ism from political discourse? You then turn around and claim you agree on 95%, which makes clear you our rights as so insignificant that they can't be conceived of as more than 5 percent. I would suggest if I held positions that were liberal in most areas but opposed gay marriage, you wouldn't think that amounted to a mere 5%. Yet you imagine we should think so little of ourselves, that we should gleefully accept the fact that you can declare us imaginary and irrelevant and still be an ally? No. It doesn't work that way.