There has been a growing user base within that subreddit that has been anti anything not left this past year despite the general topic of legal civil rights being a non-partisan issue. The issue of covid lockdowns has been one of the areas I've seen the most push back from within the subreddit. What makes it funnier is I'm used to getting posts vote bigraded in the past from right leaning groups as I've posted an article from a pro-Clinton website about a government meeting trying stop someone from video recording it and me posting a video of myself recording the entrance to a military base.
despite the general topic of legal civil rights being a non-partisan issue
... has the past year not illustrated that rather a lot of lefties feel that disagreeing with them is enough grounds to suspect one's civil rights?
Or, more accurately, that a person's civil rights are in fact privileges granted by the government for being a good, obedient serf and doing as you're told?
I've been working on civil rights stuff for over a decade now. I seen what was coming before the lockdowns fully hit and was calling it out when they were coming. I've also been calling out the whole prove your vaccination or immunity bullshit and how it is creating legal battles over the right to equal access to both government and private services. Something that has gotten me quite a nasty reputation in my local area subreddit.
You do forget that should enough of the "obedient serfs" no longer fear the governing bodies and desire change, it will happen and often very violently.
A stable and functioning nation is often a form of mutualistic symbiosis between the governing bodies and the governed. The strongest of those stable and functioning nations are those that establish contractional agreements in how they operate under the rules of law that govern it is supposed to operate and abide by them.
There has been a growing user base within that subreddit that has been anti anything not left this past year despite the general topic of legal civil rights being a non-partisan issue. The issue of covid lockdowns has been one of the areas I've seen the most push back from within the subreddit. What makes it funnier is I'm used to getting posts vote bigraded in the past from right leaning groups as I've posted an article from a pro-Clinton website about a government meeting trying stop someone from video recording it and me posting a video of myself recording the entrance to a military base.
... has the past year not illustrated that rather a lot of lefties feel that disagreeing with them is enough grounds to suspect one's civil rights?
Or, more accurately, that a person's civil rights are in fact privileges granted by the government for being a good, obedient serf and doing as you're told?
I've been working on civil rights stuff for over a decade now. I seen what was coming before the lockdowns fully hit and was calling it out when they were coming. I've also been calling out the whole prove your vaccination or immunity bullshit and how it is creating legal battles over the right to equal access to both government and private services. Something that has gotten me quite a nasty reputation in my local area subreddit.
You do forget that should enough of the "obedient serfs" no longer fear the governing bodies and desire change, it will happen and often very violently.
A stable and functioning nation is often a form of mutualistic symbiosis between the governing bodies and the governed. The strongest of those stable and functioning nations are those that establish contractional agreements in how they operate under the rules of law that govern it is supposed to operate and abide by them.