Post by Sarge on Sept 7, 2021 0:57:08 GMT
Uh...replace individual rights with group or identity rights? What does that mean exactly? What "individual rights?" The right to exclude from your school or business or society any sub-group of individuals you want? To, for example, by law forbid a loving couple of the same sex to sign a marriage contract? Or to deny a person the gender identity they really are? That is usually what is meant when someone invokes either individual rights or religious freedom. You know, the deeply held beliefs that religion can be used to make other people's lives miserable.
You've spent too much time arguing with tribalists. Societies are organized with laws. Liberalism is about individual liberty and equality. It doesn't mean that you are special for being different, or special for being average, it doesn't mean everyone has to bake you cakes. That means I get to do things you don't like, and you get to do things I don't like, and wrong is a matter of law. Obviously in practice it isn't perfect, but we keep trying to make it perfect and that is progressivism.