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Originally Posted by Jerry  So gay statue = Martin Luther King?
Ooohhh...new coup for you = Ghandi?
The Nazis ****ed everyone. Nothing about WW2 makes homosexuals special. |
do you even read your own posts? you said it was "cherry picking" to only concern yourself with one civil rights issue, my point was that each of those leaders, who are universally lauded, were only concerned with a relatively centered body of issues. Martin Luther King didn't campaign for women's rights. That wasn't because he was "cherry picking" or because wasn't concerned about the rights of women, it was because he knew the best way to accomplish his goals of social equity was to focus on one issue at a time.
as social equity is expanded each era will have its own issues. the turn of the century had the first wave of women's rights. the 60s had the culmination of black rights. the 70s had the second wave of women's rights and the beginning of gay rights.
while blacks and women do continue to struggle in some areas there progress has been established and become self-sustaining. homosexual rights have yet to reach that point, and so require stronger focus today.