re: #152 Blind Frog Belly White

I’ve had discussions, years ago, with some more educated wingnuts who maintain that things like desegregation, abortion, marriage equality, etc. should not be decided by courts, but rather legislatively, that we as a society should make the conscious decision, by majority vote, to make these changes.

The thing is, what the Court did was not to give anyone new rights. It was to RECOGNIZE that those rights already existed, and were guaranteed by the Constitution, but had not been previously recognized.

Mind you, when asked whether gun control could be passed by referendum, said, “Rights should never be subject to majority vote!”, and of course they were totally jazzed when the SCOTUS recognized the individual right to own guns, in Heller.

I had discussions with similar types, though they couldn’t have technically been educated yet as they were high-school students trying to recruit another one (I didn’t acknowledge myself as trans until 4 years after I graduated HS). It’s amazingly effective on young white ‘boys/men’ who see equality and think they’re being discriminated against because they don’t understand their ‘old future’ was only even possible because they were standing on the shoulders of the people who really earned it, including me until I rejected not-just-masculinity-but-manhood.

I will fully acknowledge that had I not transitioned, I’d probably be deep in the white-supremacist and manosphere sides of things now, both as a rebellion against my (personal; I have cousins who are full-on Sovereign Citizens, because both sides of my mother’s family other than her own parents had a disturbing habit of marrying the Pacific Northwest’s PWT) upbringing and as an attempt to ‘prove my manliness’, especially to myself. I think it’s quite literally #ThereButForTheGraceOfGod.