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I don't know if I told this story here or not. I was 17. And had just moved into my older sisters house to attend university. She was a radical feminist, and running consciousness raising groups out of her living room. In '67. One day she thought I was out, and a bunch of women came over. They were all talking in hushed voices. Telling each other the story's of their rapes. The horror, the fear, and eventually their horrendous illegal abortions. I was shocked into silence. Frozen in place.
What really grinds my gears, what absolutely pisses me off to no end, is that one doesn't even HAVE to have a story like yours, or be "radicalized", to understand why we think this way. All it takes is basic Empathy for another person, a bare minimum amount of Humanity... and yet, the very idea is itself, "Radical"...because Humanity isn't apparently innate within "Humans".
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I feel the same way re: people who argue against Minimum Wage and Single Payer healthcare, SNAP/WIC, etc. Those are PEOPLE, HUMAN BEINGS that supposedly are not worth anything. Who "don't matter" with regard to survival, who are somehow "less than Human", all because they don't generate revenue enough for the Bureaucrats in power.
@Heucuva8
Ya very true.
But in 1967, it was indeed a radical thought to be empathetic with the plight of women and minorities.