Rights as a political concept are essentially a form of social and cultural pressure that make it harder to oppress and abuse the populace. The idea that we have rights due to the passage of laws may not make it impossible for those rights to be violated, but it gives us a way to talk about it that lends legitimacy to pushing back against injustice.

Normalizing the idea that no one has any rights is extremely counterproductive to defending from tyranny. Frankly, trying to push the perception of rights from something we’re owed to a convenient fiction is straight out of the fascist playbook.

Anyone pushing this line of thinking should not be trusted. Whether it’s on purpose or not, they make themselves a tool of authoritarians by alienating people from the idea that they deserve to have their rights protected.