It's 2050: Who is the group struggling for recognition now?

About every 20 years or so, a group comes forward and demands rights and recognition that it formerly did not possess. In the post-war years, it was the blacks; in the 1970s, it was the feminists; then the gays; and now the transgendered.

Assuming this pattern holds, what group do you think will be the next to assert their identity and begin to demand rights?

Note: I am not making or seeking any ethical statements on any group, this is a purely academic question.

So who’s next? Who’s poised to be the next group to demand mainstream recognition?

Ex-cons? I’ve never understood why they can’t vote.

Robots.

Bigots.

Disenfranchised old white guys.

Polygamists and the incestuous.

Mentally ill people.

Sovereign citizens.

I am wondering if AI or cloning will be advanced enough by this date to have generated enough individuals in search of a legal identity to form the basis of a movement.

How about Native Americans? http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/08/23/honor-treaties-un-human-rights-chiefs-message-150996

They can’t do it themselves, but I think animal rights has a way to go.

Furries.

Atheists

I think this is a good guess. I live in CO, where we have a significant NA population, and they are beginning to be much more vocal and increasingly organized.

Carnivores. And people who like gluten.

seconded. :frowning:

Left-handed masturbators.

It really is a shame that Atheists are oppressed and don’t even have all the rights that even Transgenders now have.

zygotes

foreigners

After a court decision one month before the 2000 election affirming same, neither can U.S. citizens who are residents of U.S. territories or possessions, like Puerto Rico, the USVI, Guam, etc.

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