Roe Vs Wade Overturned

[MrRager]

(12-06-2022, 11:43 AM)hollodero Wrote: Alright, I don't think states' rights is just code for 'we want to own black folks'.

While I agree with you, I think it is pretty easy to see where someone would come to that conclusion. In my experience, states' rights, comes up most often when talking about the Civil War. Somehow it became a talking point to claim the Civil War was fought over states' right and had nothing to do with slavery. 

The other times I hear people use states' rights is usually about taking people's rights away. Abortion, gay marriage, interracial marriage, trans rights, book banning in education. Based on all of that, you have to be pretty leery of someone pounding the table for states' rights. 99% of the time I hear it, it's to punish a group of people, or rewrite history to lessen the horrible reason the Confederacy seceded.

The other 1% of the time I hear it, is about weed legalization, which yeah that's cool.

As an aside, I don't know where I stand on states' rights in general. I think I might be more of a Federalist. I don't really care which state someone lives in, they should be afforded a basic baseline of rights, like the ones mentioned above. Once those baselines are met, then the states can go their own way, but for anyone to act like, "whelp, Ohio voted to ban interracial marriage, I guess we just need to accept that," is absurd to me.