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I'm getting more and more annoyed at the people who have, post-election, been saying (on LJ and elsewhere) variations on "We should have let the South go."
Not because there are people in the North who voted for Bush and people in the South who voted for Kerry.
Because what they're saying, in the heat of their anger, is that winning this election would have been worth the continuation of slavery. No.
Yes, the Bush administration scares me. But you don't win human freedom by sacrificing millions of innocent people for the sake of your own liberty. Not by sacrificing blacks. Not by sacrificing women. Not by sacrificing Jews or atheists or pagans. Not by sacrificing queers.
If you think a cause is worth suffering or dying for, feel free to take that risk: with your own life, not someone else's.
Not because there are people in the North who voted for Bush and people in the South who voted for Kerry.
Because what they're saying, in the heat of their anger, is that winning this election would have been worth the continuation of slavery. No.
Yes, the Bush administration scares me. But you don't win human freedom by sacrificing millions of innocent people for the sake of your own liberty. Not by sacrificing blacks. Not by sacrificing women. Not by sacrificing Jews or atheists or pagans. Not by sacrificing queers.
If you think a cause is worth suffering or dying for, feel free to take that risk: with your own life, not someone else's.
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