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Regardless of how you feel about the specific issue of anti-discrimination laws, I get the sense that they were more about creating a cultural norm of “racism is bad m'kay,” in the same way that gay marriage and transgender restroom right are really just the legal battlefields we’ve chosen to fight culture wars on. I’m personally convinced that anti-discrimination laws are a reasonable infringement on liberty for the greater good, but if I’m honest the real reason I see them as a victory is for cultural reasons. I don’t know whether I like the trend of making laws into cultural proxy battlegrounds, but I’m sorta stumped about how else to go about fighting culture wars in a reasonably civilized way that everyone will see as legitimate and meaningful.
Well yes; if the state has previously worked to socially engineer a system that fucks over $group, it’s certainly understandable that social engineering might be used to try to reverse that.
But I really would prefer to reach an equilibrium where the state won’t try to regulate morality in any direction, as each incremental liberation nonetheless always leaves people outside it.
Sure, there might be gay marriage now, but we don’t have poly marriage; privatizing marriage would abolish these issues. (And wow it’s really fucked up that the word for “let’s not intrude onto these matters from outside” has turned to often mean “let’s hand this over for cronyist corporations to make a cash cow out of”. I feel kind of silly in having this realization right here right now but I guess it tells something about our society that we only have words for “the state” and “the state’s buddies”.)
Sure, binary trans people might have legal gender recognition, but enbies are screwed as usual; not having the state regulate gender in the first place would have made the question utterly immaterial in the first place.
And we wouldn’t need to worry about bathroom laws if the state had no right to intrude into bathrooms in the first place.
And hate crime laws are a joke when the same system that enforces them systematically engages in racially selective mass incarceration exceeding the Soviet Gulags in scope.
In a civilized system, we should see the culture wars engaged on a private level. Instead of the state setting bathroom policies for all from up above, we would be doing advocacy on the streets and in the businesses, and perhaps even humanizing the sides for each other when the outcome isn’t enforced by scary men with guns, but rather the result of negotiation with These Actual Real People Right Here. The heavy lifting happens outside the government anyway, and the way I see it taking away the main weapon of my enemy is worth an insignificant disarmament for myself. No advance in civil rights has ever happened before it had been created and popularized privately, and the state has only pushed hard on the brakes. Take away the brakes, we don’t need the mostly entirely hypothetical gas pedal.
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