Community Rights

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Community Rights
By Dyssonance
13 July, 2010


http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=6261


As I noted, I'm going through a series of rights that I describe as "The Line".  This is the way I look at stuff, the lens through which I view things, and, to some extent, the particulars about how I perceive stuff.

I'm talking about civil and political rights, about human rights, about the freedoms and liberties that we all are supposed to have.  Among those rights, and one of the things that is most important within them, are community rights.  This is an area that often gets me in trouble, because I say things like "let them be jerks — as long as they step out of our area".  Its kinda silly to a lot of people, as far too many people seek a homogenization, a uniformity of views, and I'm not usually doing that (though doubtless I'll be accused of doing so).

In Trans terms, a great example of this is the way I say that in privately owned spaces where LGBT is the basis, and where trans people are recognized in all their forms as being valid, that those who disagree with such should be respectful of that and not post there.  It's not asking much.  Nor is it talking about public spaces — and blogs are not public spaces, I'll point out.  All blogs are private ones. They can be open to the public, but that doesn't make them a public space, it merely makes them open to such.