Posted on 02/08/2025 3:59:08 PM PST by Libloather
I’m done with the Democrats.
I voted for Kamala Harris — but left the party I’d belonged to for decades after witnessing its unhinged reaction to the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, as I explained in these pages last month.
The Democratic position on transgender rights is part of a larger problem: the Democratic embrace of being “woke.”
To be woke means to accept without question the claims of the myriad identity groups that demand special treatment.
The Democrats were once the party of working people and unions. They were committed to bridging the gap between rich and poor. The Dems sought practical solutions. They focused on class. Now they seem to focus on every characteristic except class.
Democrats correctly identified a serious problem in the 1960s that was holding us back from making progress: discrimination.
The Democratic solution was affirmative action, which specified the determination of who was qualified for a position should be made without regard to race, color, religion or national origin. The idea was these characteristics could then be used to distinguish among qualified candidates.
The problem is affirmative action became a clumsy marker for who should be hired rather than a more nuanced examination of applicants’ skills, which can be found in abundance in communities that suffered discrimination.
“We should hire X because X and Y are both well qualified and hiring X, a minority candidate, would increase diversity” became “We should hire X because of her or his race or sex even if Y is better qualified.” Critics of affirmative action said what was really going on was reverse discrimination.
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“The Democratic position on transgender rights”
The author is still very brainwashed as “rights” is not the right verbiage
He should have written:
The Democratic position on transgender insanity
One of the cleverest title/descriptions I've ever read.
Here’s an idea: Why don’t people mind their own F-ing business.
He also assumes that the democrats were the party of the people even back in tge sixties.
Yeah, okay, whatever.
Seems like Gary L. Francione might be looking at the wind direction and saying “huh... maybe I need to go THAT way!”
It did not become, “We should hire X because of her or his race or sex even if Y is better qualified.” It was in the original left-wing intent. It has always been there.
Sure, and it's particularly useful if you're a lefty writer with your finger in the wind.
You beat me to it.
The author admits to voting for Harris. He is just disgruntled. His head would explode if he ever tried to vote non-Democrat.
The democratic party is NOT the party of yesteryear.
It went waaaaayyyyyy off the rails a long time ago.
They’ve gone beyond communism as even commies would have nothing to do with the mentally insane gender bender types...
The party has become virulent anti-American and hellbent on destroying the USA by any means possible. They should be outlawed and banned from the USA.
Most, if not all of em, belong in a rubber-padded room in an insane asylum, NOT any where near the levers of power of any type or shape, especially in government. Sick, godless basstids, they are.
The spot on 60 minutes for Andy Rooney was supposed to be satire, as he would rant on about absurd things. Today it’s the news cycle.
Imagine a pedophile demanding to go back to school with kids. This is basically what this Bs is all about.
Hitler was obsessed with identity politics too. Didn’t work out too well for him in the end.
BTTT
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