Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ...
by webmaven on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @06:32PM
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> if you're a male driver in Saudi Arabia your driving privileges are unimpaired by the novel legality of female drivers.
Your right to drive is unimpaired, but the privilege of driving that you enjoy most definitely is.
Most movements to expand rights to new groups are opposed by those who would thereby experience a diminution of their privelege (which is always relative).
This is also why you have the wealthy so often opposing policies that will create more wealth for everyone including themselves, because those same policies reduce their relative advantages.
Your right to drive is unimpaired, but the privilege of driving that you enjoy most definitely is.
Most movements to expand rights to new groups are opposed by those who would thereby experience a diminution of their privelege (which is always relative).
This is also why you have the wealthy so often opposing policies that will create more wealth for everyone including themselves, because those same policies reduce their relative advantages.