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Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users by bokoharambe on Sunday January 19, 2025 @08:28PM (#42764000)
Ah, the great American rhetorical tradition of masking discrimination in the language of civility. Just like pre-Jacksonian restrictions on voting protected the rights of the propertied from the depredations of the masses. Or how Jim Crow protected the rights of white southerners from those uneducated undesirables threatening orderly society. Or how restricting gay marriage protected the rights of Christians...

I hear exactly what you are saying, clear as day.

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Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users by zippipi on Monday January 20, 2025 @03:33AM (#42766297)
You should elaborate on why you believe these are comparable.

For example, consider a male convict who desires to be incarcerated in the female prison estate. Is it really civil rights discrimination to deny him this? If so, how?

Most importantly, what about the civil rights of the female prisoners he would be incarcerated with, if this were permitted?

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Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users by bokoharambe on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:24AM (#42769600)
American prisons violate any notion of humaneness and rights from the outset. The abject subjects who are condemned to dwell in them cannot be used to illustrate anything about civil rights, other than the fact that the state regularly uses its sovereign power to violate them.

If I was under constant threat of rape or murder, I would do anything to get to a situation that I thought might be less dangerous.

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Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users by zippipi on Monday January 20, 2025 @11:04AM (#42769984)
Are you aware of why prisons are, or were up until recently in some states, segregated by sex - why we have separate female and male prisons?
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Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users by bokoharambe on Monday January 20, 2025 @12:14PM (#42770771)
Prisons should not exist.
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