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Are rights outdated? (self.SRSDiscussion)

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Right to free speech
Right to property
Right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness

Often rights are selectively applied. We claim to uphold them but in reality they only exist for people that do not threaten the state or the status quo/social norms. Free speech is often permissive of reactionary speech and historically has been refused to people advocating for social justice (civil rights protestors, socialists). Right to property in practice is nothing more than the right for a minority of society to own property. Right to life liberty and pursuit of happiness - I'm pretty sure I don't even have to go over this with yall.

Are rights outdated and ineffective? Or is actually effective?

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[–]Lolor-arros 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Rights are effective.

They are sometimes poorly implemented. But that's a problem with government, not rights themselves.

[–]airus92 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

My issue with the concept of "rights," at least enforced rights is that they necessitate a sovereign power enforcing them, which means they'll never be universalised and will always favour the status quo. I believe Walter Benjamin has some interesting thoughts on rights being used to uphold hegemonic concerns, I'll try and find it.

[–]SuperUltraGreatDelic 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Free speech is often permissive of reactionary speech and historically has been refused to people advocating for social justice (civil rights protestors, socialists).

There has never been a situation in the USA where people have been sent to the gulag for publishing social justice pamphlets. Freedom of speech does not entail freedom of behavior. Almost every attack on the "freedom" of social justice activists has been an attack on their freedom to do whatever they please (which is a freedom they never had and, hopefully, never will). Similarly, I can't scream about the evils of thin privilege in a library and not expect to be kicked out.