ORIGINAL: Gary Childress
Of course. Two minority groups seeking equal rights against a bunch of conservative reactionaries can't possibly have anything in common. Acknowledging any common ground would bring up the inconvenient thought of, maybe, just maybe, we're wrong...again. No. You have a good point there. I don't know what I was thinking. Insanity on my part for sure...
Regardless of your original condescending tone, I believe it is you who just does not get it.
Two minority groups seeking equal rights? That is almost farcical.
Women are different from men. Women (with the exception of black women) are different from blacks.
You bring out antiquated stereotypes and expect us to go along with you.
You throw a "flash bang" into an argument about women fighting in front line combat and expect us to say "Hey, great point. Women are only trying to be equal, just like blacks."
Do you expect everyone to just cede the issue because of that? Bleh!
Prior to and from the Civil War blacks were beginning to integrate into American society. It was not until the progressive movement, and especially the Woodrow Wilson era, that classified blacks as less than whites based upon the principles found in Darwin's theory of evolution, and wild claims in the medical community.
At that point blacks who were "finding themselves" and "stepping up" were put down by numerous executive orders and "laws" that separated blacks from whites.
Wilson and Sanger believed that blacks carried diseases and should not be integrated into society. When the Wilson/Sanger theories became institutionalized blacks who had become entrepreneurs, teachers, soldiers, and even politicians were relegated to second class status. Similar to what the immigrants who were Irish and Italians had to endure. But, it was "government sanctioned".
Having women in the military, and now in combat, has and will, further the reduction in the standards that are used to determine the combat effectiveness of an individual soldier. And, you believe that makes the men and women equal?
They have equal rights. But, is it an equal right to be in a combat unit if your standards have to be reduced for you to get there.
The floor is yours.
RR
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
