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Comment by lmm

9 days ago

Not true, at least on social issues, which is what the universities are getting burned for. Policy positions that were mainstream in 2000 are now painted as far-right.

That's how society progresses though. Before 1865, slavery was mainstream and abolitionists were weird radical crazies. Before 1965, "Jim Crow" laws that said non-whites had to use different bathrooms and drinking fountains were mainstream, and people who opposed them were seen as unreasonable.

  • And back in the 1960s a planned economy was normal and reasonable, and many progressives openly called for normalisation of sex with teenagers. Sometimes shifts in attitudes are progress. Sometimes they're just a random walk. Sometimes the left is right, sometimes the right is.

    • Eugenics as in forcible sterilization of the “unfit” was similarly Progressive back in the early 20th.

    • I'm not sure either of those are particularly progressive -- the current president seems to be a fan of tariffs, a form of planned economy popular in the 19th century (and condemned by most economists since, who favor free trade). And child brides are a common feature of many right-wing religious groups, argued on the grounds that that people (particularly female) traditionally married in their teen years.

> Policy positions that were mainstream in 2000 are now painted as far-right.

Painted? Historically, there is a bunch of groups that were opposed to homosexual rights. I wonder how do you think those organization are "painted" on the political spectrum?

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_homosexuals_in_...

- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230294158_9

- https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00994-6

> Policy positions that were mainstream in 2000 are now painted as far-right.

Maybe that speaks something about a country that still has the KKK, and allowed its African American population to vote in 1965, not even 40 years before 2000.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation

- https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/white-supremacist-ideals-o...