(May 21, 2012 at 4:56 am)Ben Davis Wrote:I oppose the concept as such. I generally advise people against marrying someone not of their own kin.(May 21, 2012 at 3:21 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Well, civil rights is another thing. I do not oppose the right of people of two different races being together. I just oppose the concept for my own people. I'm sure there are a lot of people who do the same.
That's just it, it's not 'another' thing, it's the same thing. The right of anyone to marry/not to marry and be treated equally under law is a civil rights issue just as the right to equal & undiscriminatory legal treatment irrespective of ethnicity is a civil rights issue; just as the right to equal consideration under law for all genders is a civil rights issue; just as the right to be treated equally irrespective of one's religion or lack thereof is a civil rights issue.
To oppose the concept is to oppose the civil rights movement and the basic premise that everyone should have equal rights. Is that really the position you hold?
It's not a civil rights issue for me, it's an issue of ethnic consciousness.
Even though a person of a mixed race has equal rights under the law, such a person does not have equal worth in front of my eyes.
That person has a different ethnic consciousness residing in the mind of his/her, and is not a part of the Turkish nation in my eyes. Meaning, another of our number is lost in the creation of a mixed-ethnicity person.
I oppose the concept, therefore.
But yes, me and him, equals before the law, but not equals before the Turkish nation. Never.
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