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wannabuyamonkey said:
Civil rights aren't a prize you get for being persecuted, having parrades or attacking policemen from bars. Civil rights are just that rights. By your logic civil rights would only apply to the oppressed and noone else. How about Koreans. Do they deserve civil rights?

You're starting to make emotional arguments, not logical ones.



It's easy to say that dismissively when you're not somebody in the persecuted group.

My god, I can't even be out to my employer without being fired on the spot.

And I appeal to an emotional example (see above) when I can't see the logic in the other argument, i.e., supporting polygamy.

Futhermore, the establishment of civil rights in this country has always been brought about from those groups who have felt opposed and became motivated to protest.

And don't start telling me that being persecuted isn't a cause for civil recognition. The Jews got Israel given to them following the Holocaust.

Last edited by Jim Jackson; 2006-01-19 10:17 PM.
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