Where to start?

[mlknchz]

"I think the way liberals have treated blacks like children and many of their policies have been harmful to blacks, at least they got the beneficiary group right," Coulter said. "There is the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws. We don't owe the homeless. We don't owe feminists. We don't owe women who are desirous of having abortions or gays who want to get married to one another. That's what civil rights has become for much of the left."

"Immigrant rights are not civil rights?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"No," Coulter responded, "No. I think civil rights are for blacks. What have we done to the immigrants? We owe black people something. We have a legacy of slavery. Immigrants haven't even been in this country."
-The great humanitarian and intellectual Ann Coulter on the subject of civil rights.

Civil rights ARE FOR EVERYONE; EVERYONE in this country regardless of race or sex or religion or national origin or any other consideration, EVERYONE.

WE THE PEOPLE, asshole...not "We the people who Ann Coulter thinks deserve rights"

I am still waiting for her to pull off the mask and admit to being a liberal performance artist; no one is actually that stupid, bigoted, and narrow-minded, are they? WHY THE FUCK do conservatives who are intelligent, compassionate, caring people who DEEPLY love their country and their compatriots allow Ann Coulter and her shrill, know-nothing, hateful, spiteful ilk speak for them?
Oh yeah, I forgot. Reasonable, sane discussion has no place in the media.

Comments

[mlknchz.livejournal.com]

No, you've hit the nail on the head, my friend. Freedom, civil rights in this case, is NOT as some people seem to think a "zero-sum" game where if someone has civil rights my civil rights are somehow diminished. PRIVILEGE is diminished by greater access to human and civil rights by all people, freedom is not.
And yes, it's about simple respect, simple compassion towards the people we shared this planet with. It's too bad too few people understand that.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is, it seems continually necessary to state the obvious. Because, obviously, it is not; to everyone. I keep making the same mistake of thinking, humanity would have learnt a little something from bad experience, but: no.

[mlknchz.livejournal.com]

Here in the US, TOO many people who call themselves "conservatives" are actually elitists intent on preserving what they see as their privileges. They think they can do so by trying to deny civil rights to others.
REAL conservatives, on the other hand, believe in democracy and know everyone benefits when rights are not limited to a small number of people.

In short, we DO "owe". We all live in debt to others, and we can only repay that debt by justice.