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.
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.
Such as?
gay marriage?
Presumably you mean opposition to gay marriage?
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> 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...