Is Civil Rights the new catch all phrase?
By lilwonders
@lilwonders456 (8214)
United States
July 7, 2010 10:38pm CST
I heard it with Health care reform..it is a civil rights issue. I have heard it with illegal immigration...it's a civil rights issue....now with legalizing pot in California. The NAACP is saying legalizing pot is a (you got it) civil rights issue.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/07/naacp.marijuana.support/index.html?hpt=T2
Is "civil rights issue" the new catch phrase for anything and everything (including the kitchen sink) someone wants passed or a law changed? It seems "civil rights" and "racism" are the new phrases for pushing bills. In my opinion I can't figure out how any of those are a "civil rights issue" or a "racism" issue. But that is just me. Tell me what you think. Can you figure it out?
3 responses
@Ezra710 (135)
• United States
9 Jul 10
Yeah , you are right, civil rights is the wrongly used catch phrase for all kinds of issues. Moral rights are no longer in the fore front of legisltion these days. I sure would like to see Dr. Martin Luther King alive today and hear what he would have to say about all these things that are changed in the nmae of civil rights. I wonder if he would be politically correct when he addressed the issues of today? They call them civil rights issues to get around the moral standards.
@thegreatdebater (7316)
• United States
9 Jul 10
You got me on that one, I can't explain how any of those are civil rights related. I do agree that they are all needed in poor communities in this country, and pot, and health car reform will help this country (immigration is a toss up). But, people say some stupid things when you don't know what they are talking about, or don't know how to talk about something. That is how I feel when I am forced to listen to Rush!!
@Chiang_Mai_boy (3882)
• Thailand
8 Jul 10
Civil rights are just that! You seem a bit confused, Civil rights are not a black and white issue, they refer to the rights of all individuals in a free society.
