Can We Have A Toughtful/Respectful Discussion Of Civil Rights Versus Income Inequality ???

[JDPriestly]

101. I agree.

Interestingly, those who want to limit others' civil rights are often the same people who support fiscally conservative policies.

And one of the reasons they don't want policies that help people having a hard time or just society as a whole is that the fiscally conservative tend to be racist and opposed to things like gay marriage, women's rights, etc. because they think that social programs and social progress will take something away from them.

Nonsense. But those who are fiscally conservative are rarely really very liberal on civil rights -- unless it is a specific right like gay marriage or abortion or no anti-drug laws and they personally stand to gain from it.

So fiscal conservatism and selective or negative views on civil rights appear together very often.