Liberals are going to tell you that you can fight injustice by walking docilely through the streets on approved routes, during approved hours, after getting the proper permission slips from the people you’re fighting against. Ignore them. And then make sure that you can’t be ignored.
Trauma often messes with one’s ability to say “no”.
You either consciously or subconsciously think, “I don’t want to hurt this person’s feelings” or “If I say no, then they’ll hurt me” or “It won’t really be that bad” or “I can handle this” or “I need to do this to prove myself” or “I deserve this”, or you forget that “no” is even an option.
It’s still not your fault if you didn’t say “no”, even if you think maybe you could have. It’s still not your fault. You didn’t deserve what happened to you and you didn’t bring it upon yourself. It was never your fault.
“Discrimination is a common barrier faced by people with disabilities in need of lifesaving care. Only a handful of states have banned bias in transplants. Until more states act, this discrimination will persist.”
As we honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement today, it is worth remembering that the campaign to honor Dr. King faced significant opposition from Republicans. Then-president Ronald Reagan was among the primary opponents of the bill to create a holiday honoring Dr. King, believing that it would “open the door to many other groups seeking similar holidays,” as were former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Texas Congressman and libertarian leader Ron Paul.
Former Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) famously led a vigorous campaign against the holiday on the grounds that King was a “communist sympathizer.” In the 1980s, debate raged in Congress, with many Republicans arguing that the nation had been “misled into believing MLK was a great man.” Even today, the Republican-dominated states of Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi observe the holiday as jointly celebrating “Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee’s birthdays.”
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