Tubman's Law
First, I'd like to give a big thank you to kittikattie and cumaeansibyl for putting together the meat of this law.

Here's cumaeansibyl's contribution:

During a discussion of any possible form of discrimination, no matter how insignificant or unrelated to serious oppression, the probability that someone will compare said discrimination to racism against blacks as the thread goes on approaches one. When said comparison is made, the argument has automatically been lost.


kittikattie elaborates further:


By trying to equate black oppression--which involved millions of people being taken away from their countries and carted across the sea, where many died or got horrible diseases, and then were used as free laborers and were more mistreated than animals and then, even after being freed, being basically treated the same, with hundreds of years of oppression, hatred, and prejudice thrust onto them simply because of the color of their skin--to anything else, you automatically FAIL AT LIFE. And the argument.

I'll be saving this post to the memories. When you see someone comparing stupid silly things to racism/slavery, leave a comment in this post with a link to it!


I'll go first:

Having a onesie that says "formula 4 success" on it is OMGZ JUST AS BAD as one that has a racist slur on it! Promoting bottle-feeding is JUST LIKE RACISM!!!!


I'd like this post to act as a handy reference for finding examples of Tubman's Law on LJ. That said, any post that does not contain a link to Tubman's Law in action will be deleted. Sorry.


Edit: I've gone and screened comments to this entry because people keep commenting without listing examples. I have copied this post to my personal LJ, and if you want to critique the law or talk about puppies and kitties or whatever, you can do that there. But this post is for COMMENTING WITH EXAMPLES OF TUBMAN'S LAW ONLY.