Banging on an open door
Yes but no one says trans rights are not human rights. Trans people have human rights. The issue is fancy new bespoke rights that aren’t rights at all, because they trample on everyone else’s rights.
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Yes but no one says trans rights are not human rights. Trans people have human rights. The issue is fancy new bespoke rights that aren’t rights at all, because they trample on everyone else’s rights.
What makes this scene “incredible”?
Somewhat robotic and miserable-sounding, if you ask me. Hardly a passionate, gleeful celebration.
I agree with latsot. Look at their faces. It’s a bunch of people reciting the school motto because their livelihoods depend on their being there, and they’re not remotely happy about it. I’ve seen more joy on the faces of Catholics repeating the usual crud during Mass (when I was one), and it’s hard to find a more miserable bunch than Catholics at 11am Mass.
It’s also pretty hilarious that the tweet officer marvels “the entire hall affirms that trans rights are human rights” as if the whole thing hadn’t been choreographed and as if they had the slightest choice in the matter. “Incredible scene at UCU conference as members do what they were told to do.”
It seems to me that I heard an “Amen” after the recitation of the prayer.
The more I hear “X rights are human rights”, the less I understand what it means. X rights are rights guaranteed all humans? X rights are part of the set of things we call “human rights”? X rights are hereby raised to the level of importance we give to things called “human rights”?
I think that’s because trans “activists” use the word as a bludgeon. I doubt they know what they mean themselves.
@6 the original phrase, I believe, was ‘women’s rights are human rights’, because there are still plenty of places and situations where women don’t have the rights we’d expect full human beings to have. As seems to be true of everything trans-related the activists stole the phrase and the concept from another group.
And their determination to remain steadfastly ignorant is the reason we have to keep trying to get them to define their terms. It’s infuriating when those who should know better about words and their meanings (like journalists and educators) thoughtlessly but carefully deploy trans terminology and preferred usage. Thoughtless in the sense that they overlook the underlying assumptions and viewpoint implicit in the language, but careful in that they craftily choose this terminology over honest, truthful wording that would clarify rather than obscure the issues being discussed and reported.