How do people who grew up during the Civil Rights era not understand that this is also a civil rights issue? If Schumer were senator in 1968, I feel like he'd complain that desegregation was a GOP attempt to distract from "kitchen table issues"
Well yeah if they are calling people crazy than what's to stop people from labeling some religious beliefs as crazy hoo ha? 🤷♂️ When dose it stop only when they say?
I've written nearly every week to my senators, since he let that reconciliation bill through, asking them to get him to step down. It's unbelievable just how bad he is at being an opposition leader. He needs to go.
One simple phrase would tie this into the current Democratic leadership's posture on "kitchen table issues." For trans folks and the families who love them, they are kitchen table issues. New leadership is needed since the current refuse to accept that politics are not reverting to the 90s.
Schumer's lobbying and power is what helped prompt NY state to legalize gay marriage well ahead of other states. Also consistently been very effective on civil rights for minorities, including playing a lead role in diversifying the federal judiciary.
It's interesting that there's no consistent framing of it as a civil rights issue—to me it seems that cuts right through to issues lage numbers of people can understand.
Because it's hard. That's it. That's all. When you've got a 50/50 split of the country, it's difficult for them to take on hard questions. They even feel like it's "always" about Trans folks and covers up other issues they want to fight about. 1/
If they say Yes, I ask for details. Everything I've heard I've heard is based on misunderstandings, repeating lies they never thought about, or it comes out that they just don't want transfolk to exist. 4/4
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Forget actions; how is it that the Senate Minority Leader’s staff still can’t even manage a response to a right wing assault on human rights?
We also need to abolish do-nothing, status-quo maintaining, collaborators like Schumer.
I feel like we are treading a path that leads to the complete collapse of democracy, or bloody revolution. Neither is going to be fun.
Civil Rights are not finite, but our actual attention span is.
The way I put it at a meeting. "It's always about trans people because they are the ones being attacked right now." 2/
"Are they harming anyone by existing?" If I get a No, then the answer is 'What does it matter then? Why support laws against them existing?' 3/
... it's the "cult of ignorance" [Isaac Asimov - 1980] with additional insight/elaboration from Carl Sagan [Candle in the Dark -1995].