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Originally Posted by sigmadiva
They are. That is the comaprison they keep bringing up as a justification for their cause. I'm just responding to what has been said / posted. Did you not see the picture KSigRC posted?
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Of course I did. The fact that Separate-but-Equal is brought up indicates two things:
-- that the Civil Rights Movement is the most recent example of an American movement seeking equality for citizens, and
-- that the court decisions in cases such as legalized gay marriage and said that providing for civil unions was not sufficient relied heavily on the reasoning of cases that struck down the Separate-but-Equal.
But your question was:
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Originally Posted by sigmadiva
So, why do gays choose to compare their struggle to Blacks only? Why not compare their struggles to other groups.
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So my question wasn't "who said they were comparing their struggle to the struggle of Blacks?"; it was "who said that they were comparing their struggle
only to the struggle of Blacks?" The picture that KSigKid posted =/= the entirity of the discussions being had and comparisons being made on this issue.