• magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
    73·
    2 months ago

    Why do we need support from people who died 250 years ago? Or 2000 years ago for that matter.

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      Because they view the morals America was founded on as fair and just with a few tweaks. People on one side think the white supremacy is a betrayal of the promise of equality, while others see it as based. American values can then be celebrated by both without them meaning the same thing. At the end of the day, promises of human rights and genocidal bigotry made America what it is, and so long as America is America, they always will.

      I personally don’t give a shit what people 200+ years ago thought, nor do I care for dogma of today.

    • Marcela (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      1 month ago

      Why stop there? I bet Australopethecus Anamensis wasn’t supportive of trans rights as well as other modern things like having teeth beyond your 26th birthday.

  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    642·
    2 months ago

    “none of the founders would have supported trans”

    they all owned literal slaves so i dont really give a fuck what they think

      • EpeeGnome@feddit.onlineEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        If anyone needs evidence of the above, read his Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress, a letter he wrote to a non-specific younger man advising him on all the ways that an older mistress was superior to a young one. It’s written in a humorous style, but also feels like he means every word.

  • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    just because the legal system and framework needs an overhaul isn’t a reason to throw out the entire thing. for example, Thomas Jefferson would have been a chaser too.