• mindbleach
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      2 months ago

      Civil rights are the ones your government recognizes. You’re describing innate human rights, as a philosophical concept - which is fine, and front-and-center in the Declaration of Independence. But it’s distinct from the phrase you’ve chosen to insist upon. As an obvious example: the people who wrote the Declaration of Independence kept slaves. That system of human bondage was politics, and its eventual abolition was also politics. People had to argue for it, campaign about it, and eventually fight a war for it.