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Since you seem to know and apparently we dont know what a leftist is to be able to ask one, maybe you can explain it to us. Whats rhe difference between a leftist and a progressive?
Some seem to imply that it is a statement about others, as do you in your last sentence. When I see that sign I think here lives people that feels that some groups feel afraid and they try to create a space that says that members of those groups are safe from hate at that space. Perhaps they don't think a message as broad as "Love here" gets that point across as effectively.
I call Poe's Law on this one - I legitimately can't tell if you're being serious.
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Well lol, its a combination of linguistics and political science... those two particular facets don't lend themselves to the concept of "neat concise peer reviewed studies" the same way the hard sciences do.
It it wasn't for the "pro-life" movement we would probably have European style abortion restrictions already.
Why not? Those other ideologies also encourage hatred, though not necessarily just towards people of color. You, personally, can oppose the police killings of black people without embracing those other things.I've already provided screenshots from BLM DC showing their missions that go beyond "protecting black lives from police brutality"
Here's what the leader of the LA chapter had to say:
Black Lives Matter Plans 'Black Christmas'
Black Lives Matter organizers are calling on shoppers to "resist white capitalism" this holiday season.
"We say 'white capitalism' because it's important that we understand that the economic system and the racial structures are connected," said Abdullah during her weekly radio show, Beautiful Struggle. "We have to not only disrupt the systems of policing that literally kill our people, but we have to disrupt the white supremacist, capitalistic, patriarchal, heteronormative system that is really the root cause of these police killings."
Seems like there's a lot of other stuff being bundled in with "Black Live Matter" that go well beyond the simple semantic definition of that phrase, correct? So in order to "truly oppose the police killings of black people", we have to hop on board with disrupting capitalism, the patriarchy, and heteronormative systems?
A useful goal, but too touchy to be blatant about. The thing is, you are projecting a level of political sophistication onto these people which just isn't there. Nobody wants to dismantle families, but they don't necessarily want to be bound by the "Western prescribed nuclear family unit" either.
Nor the extraneous right-wing ideological baggage.
I'm sure they will ask your permission before doing it again, now that you've explained the matter.
As they have Constitutional right to do. You don't have to agree with them.
Why use organizational statements at all? It gets very sensitive to what organization you choose as representatives. I googled hate has no home here sign and clicked on amazon to buy one and got this result (after logging out of my account, don't ask me why I got flags not signs or why they think I'm apparently in nashville):Well, I doubt you'll find any peer reviewed studies about the use of semantic overload, but there's a number of public polls and organizational mission statements that can be reviewed.
For instance, the HRC is one of the orgs that sells that kind of merch.
What are their stances on the various LGBTQ issues? Any wiggle room for a balanced discussion with the folks at the HRC on matters of affirming care for minors, or the sports topic?
How about the pro-choice advocacy groups that leverage the "women's rights are human rights" tagline and symbol? Are those groups open to any sort of balanced European-style solution, where there are allowances for the 3 exception scenarios, but the elective ones get capped somewhere around 15-16 weeks? Or are the heels pretty much dug in on the whole "on-demand/no limits" approach?
I've already provided screenshots from BLM DC showing their missions that go beyond "protecting black lives from police brutality"
Here's what the leader of the LA chapter had to say:
Black Lives Matter Plans 'Black Christmas'
Black Lives Matter organizers are calling on shoppers to "resist white capitalism" this holiday season.
"We say 'white capitalism' because it's important that we understand that the economic system and the racial structures are connected," said Abdullah during her weekly radio show, Beautiful Struggle. "We have to not only disrupt the systems of policing that literally kill our people, but we have to disrupt the white supremacist, capitalistic, patriarchal, heteronormative system that is really the root cause of these police killings."
Seems like there's a lot of other stuff being bundled in with "Black Live Matter" that go well beyond the simple semantic definition of that phrase, correct? So in order to "truly oppose the police killings of black people", we have to hop on board with disrupting capitalism, the patriarchy, and heteronormative systems?
The original official BLM "who we are" page (which they ended up removing after some backlash) mentioned "seek to dismantle the western-prescribed nuclear family unit"
A lot of that stuff has absolutely nothing to do with protecting black lives from police killings, several westernized countries have managed to address that issue (or never had much of an issue with that in the first place) without having to embrace any of the extraneous left-wing ideological baggage.
So, someone appealing to the more generic concept of "rejecting hate", and then attaching the slogans/symbols from movements that clearly have a much mor expansive lists of demands as the "buy-in", is overloading that phrase.
That's no different than if someone puts a sign out there saying "Defend freedom" (a concept that in the abstract sense, everyone would claim to agree with) and then cluttered up the sign with a bunch of pro-gun & anti-tax symbols and slogans, they're making a statement about what they think is involved with a person being considered "a true defender of freedom"
Ironically enough... many of the red states (when left to their own devices) made abortion laws that are pretty much on-par (or even more permissive) than what you'll find in Europe.
It is not very similar to what you initially presented.
if you go into the HRC merch shop, you'll see some quite similar yard flags/shirts/etc using similar symbolism and language choices.
Your comment on Norway should give you a clue: "...a medical board must approve the procedure..." Not a medically untrained magistrate enforcing vague laws written by ideologically motivated legislators.
Explain that to, say, a 14 year old girl pregnant by her drug addicted mother's boyfriend.
They do. That's why, for instance, they specifically "seek to dismantle the western-prescribed nuclear family unit" rather than seeking to dismantle families.
Look at the leftist san sarif font.
Quite the contrary. I myself trained in the kind of qualitative analysis that is commonly used in social science. It should be easy to find at least some research in that area. Unless of course it does not mean what you think it to mean.
Well, that's not misleading at all. Their abortion restrictions score was a 5/15, which would have given them a score of 90/100, and that was the only deduction they got for abortion access. The other 30 points they lost were because they don't mandate sex ed (-20 points) and don't offer family planning services under Medicaid (-10 points).
So the pro-choice advocates here would be okay with an 18 week cap on elective abortions, and any beyond that would be subject to a medical review board? I'm guessing no
There are other legal proceedings that need to happen for outlier scenarios like that.
Not helpful because their grading system is flawed?
I said why.
