Here's a question no PR rep wants to hear: Is it worse to mock disabled people or to make light of slavery?
The PAC for Florida family law reform is obviously looking for an answer.
After the start of March by hijack a story about the first openly autistic lawyer admitted to the bar in Florida, the men's rights group has published another embarrassingly bad Facebook post.
This time, the group compares permanent maintenance to slavery.
Really.
“Slavery was once legal until the Civil War was won. It was also legal to disenfranchise women. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's right,” the group wrote. “Perpetual alimony is still legal in some states, but alimony until death is immoral.”
The rambling continues.
“When women couldn't get an education or a job, it was necessary. We now have so many rights that we even pay lifelong maintenance because we earned more than our ex-husbands. This year we are taking a firm stand against this immorality by abolishing lifelong maintenance.”
“Some people just leave and keep paying for the courts to play games. We've had enough. This isn't 'hate' or abolishing child support. This is about child support with an end date and about enabling able-bodied adults to earn a living.”
There is just so much to unpack here. And none of it is helpful to supported maintenance law passed.
The Florida Family Law Reform PAC throws around the word “abolish” quite a bit, but it’s obvious that no one at headquarters understands the connotations that word has when discussing the worst chapter in American history.
No one denies that slavery was once legal in the United States. No one says that slavery is not completely immoral.
But the abolitionists certainly weren't fighting for slavery “with an end date.” They were fighting for the end of slavery, period.
Permanent maintenance payments are not so far-fetched. At most, they represent a financial burden.
That's what happens when you're dealing with a bunch of conceited people who think their problems are the center of the universe.
They invoke the Civil War as if they believe they are involved in a gigantic struggle for the survival of a nation. They trivialize the women's suffrage movement as if they were being oppressed. They allude to the decades-long struggle to abolish slavery as if they themselves were being treated as less than human.
According to the article, which was written from a woman's perspective, the women's rights movement is over and now the activists are turning their attention to a problem that primarily affects men. After all, women have “so many rights today” that even they have to pay permanent maintenance.
Theatricality seems to know no limits.
How long will it be before they call permanent alimony their “personal Vietnam” or succumb to Godwin’s Law and start calling their opponents Nazis?
That would certainly fit with their current social media image: a group that loves to shoot itself in the foot.
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