No, but I was born here against my will, so now I either have to prepare to fight fascism or find an exit before the powderkeg gets lit.
Are you:
- Middle class or higher
- White (Or counted as such by society when useful)
- Cis-Male
- Straight
- Wanting to have 2.5 kids
- Able bodied
- Mentally well
- Own a car and able to pay for gas
Then sure, it’s for you. If one of these doesn’t apply, the Founding Fathers would like you sold on the soap box they used to call for liberty to ring. America was made by out of touch elites for out of touch elites. Washington and Jefferson and Madison were not some common folk who worked their way up. Most were landowning slave drivers who raped the slaves they said they loved and didn’t mistreat.
Some, like Franklin, were poor and worked their way up with connections and wit. And he never had any meaningful positions of office.
Is 4/8 not good enough?
7/8 is not good enough for America. You could be a cis-male stiraght white American who is mentally and physically well, but poor, and America doesn’t do enough for you.
If you are everything here but black? America hates you.
If you are everything here but disabled? America hates you.
If you are everything here but born female? America hates you.
If you are not the normalized status-quo of what America (or any country) thinks is the default, you’re treated unfairly from the top down, and then socially from the top down. It’s part of why intersectionality is important.
I do believe the song that this seems to be referencing was actually written as satire.
The US began with slavery.
Then slavery ended (with the prison exemption, but still…)
Only white male land owners had rights.
But eventually all white males had rights.
Then rights were expanded to black men.
Then to women.
Then segregation ended and interracial marriage is legal.
Now same-sex marriage is legal.
Soon we will have trans rights protections.
Don’t give up. We’ve come a long way.
This nation was started by white land owners for white land owners. But it has since evolved. More people have rights than ever before in the history of this country.
Do not give up. We can’t let 200+ years of history go to waste because of two four-year terms of one politician.
This. America used to give so many fewer rights to all.
Yes, there are SERIOUS problems in America that are systemic, but they are fixable. We just need to keep going.
Beautiful comment!
I don’t think you understand.
Most of those 200 years aligns with Trump’s agenda
He’s not the deviation. Historically speaking, Trump is the norm.
That doesn’t mean I’m giving up, but I’m not going to fool myself about the odds of success either.
I think people are uncomfortable with how all the rights of modern America were forced from the hands of privileged white society. “Equality” is a threat from the perspective of the entitled.
Awh, bless your heart.
… Do you disagree with their post?
What rights do trans people not have? I keep hearing about trans rights are human rights yet fail to see what rights i have that a trans person doesn’t?
A ton of gender-affirming healthcare is illegal in most of the USA, the bathroom laws are a patchwork of un-navigable bullshit, the process for changing your legal name doesn’t really work, I could go on but I suspect you aren’t asking in good faith.
Well, I just saw a news article today about how Trump was immediately going to kick every trans person out of the military. Also been seeing articles for years now about Republicans trying to ban sexual realignment surgery even for adults. So what more proof do we need that there’s a problem?
The right to exist without constantly having to justify said existence?
Im wasnt aware that that was a right i had. Where am i granted this right?
outside the usa.
The older I get the less I think it was.
It took me years to understand everything I heard or learned about the USA was propaganda, wishful thinking, misdirection, folk lore etc. And even longer to notice nobody understands how it works now.
This land is my land
This land ain’t your land
If you don’t get off
I’ll blow your head off
I’ve got a shotgun
And you ain’t got one
This land was made for me not you
it was taken from others and then divided out to a racist system of governance.
so like, no.
