Oh, yeah, I am in no way saying that his logic isn't flawed. I think that the whole "don't worry about the definition, worry about the rights" logic is fucked up anyway because, as Brown v. Board of Education said in the 50s, separating any two things that are meant to be equal is inherently unequal.
I'm sure he had no idea that the equality isn't there, or was trying to say that we should be fighting for the equality rather than the terminology and it came out horribly wrong. And that's really idiotic of him. But at the same time, I can't help but have a pang of but he didn't mean it like people are taking it, because I have seen a lot of breathing fire over this from people who don't understand the UK/US difference, and therefore think he was being a lot harder-line than he was.
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Date: 2010-06-13 07:05 pm (UTC)I'm sure he had no idea that the equality isn't there, or was trying to say that we should be fighting for the equality rather than the terminology and it came out horribly wrong. And that's really idiotic of him. But at the same time, I can't help but have a pang of but he didn't mean it like people are taking it, because I have seen a lot of breathing fire over this from people who don't understand the UK/US difference, and therefore think he was being a lot harder-line than he was.