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[–] margaritox@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (23 children)

Is the “just because we disagree on politics we can still get along” frame of mind generally a conservative thing? Because on one hand, it makes sense. On the other hand, I find it very difficult, for example, to look past the fact that some conservatives want to stop aid to Ukraine (as a Ukrainian living in the US).

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 week ago (20 children)

human and civil rights aren’t “politics”

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If politics includes the realm of persuading enough people and institutions to adopt or forget laws and standards, however moral of immoral they are, then rights of any kind are political.

Rights aren't given in society for nothing. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights were created following WWII in which we saw the greatest political conflicts in the modern, technological age. Civil rights, at least in the US, have taken many acts as well as background political pressure to get to where we are today, and this institutionalizing of equal rights among American citizens only started after the US Civil War, the only civil war that country had ever experienced at that point.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

politics are very involved in how a government will treat human and civil rights… but these rights are intrinsic to humanity, aka inalienable, and exist without governments.

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