Seriously, who cares?

[Caliman73]

14. Historically oppressed groups trying to achieve true equality, is a BIG threat.

I understand what you are saying regarding the "non-issue" but the reality is that the people who have real financial and social power in this country, and many people who do not have the power, but still benefit from privilege of being male, White, Christian, etc... see a lot to lose.

All of us who went to public school, have been steeped not in our true history, but in a mythology that holds the United States up as an "exceptional country". Even histories that note the "flaws" serious underplay them.

Just look at ANY history of Martin Luther King Jr. He's the guy who started the Civil Rights movement and was all peaceful and wanted us to "Judge each other by the content of our character not the color of our skin". He is beloved and an icon, and TOTALLY Whitewashed.

Too many people, even our our supposed side, buy into at least some of the ideas pushed by right wingers in these "non-issue" culture wars.

Ronald Reagan won the 1980 election in a landslide because the Right Wing was able to effectively use racial and sexual bigotry to lure people that were supposedly Democratic away. With the coordination of right wing media from the 90's onward, that message has been going out 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

It means something to more people than you think.