| ▲ | lmm a day 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. |
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| ▲ | jhbadger a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | lmm a day ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | Duwensatzaj 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | Eugenics as in forcible sterilization of the “unfit” was similarly Progressive back in the early 20th. |
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| ▲ | PaulDavisThe1st a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Policy positions that were mainstream in 2000 are now painted as far-right. Such as? |
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| ▲ | jibe 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | gay marriage? | | |
| ▲ | PaulDavisThe1st 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | Presumably you mean opposition to gay marriage? | | |
| ▲ | jibe 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, opposition to gay marriage was so mainstream that even Barack Obama campaigned supporting Clinton's Defense of Marriage Act. Even in the Democratic primaries, as late as 2008, being pro gay marriage was seen as a liability. | | |
| ▲ | PaulDavisThe1st 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don't know that it's painted as far right as much as conservative (which it is) and by some as bigoted. The Overton Window moves. Upper marginal tax rates above 90% were not just a position but the actual law in USA during the 1960s, but now are seen here as "far left". Seatbelt requirements were initially felt to be over-intrusion by government, and are now seen by almost everyone as just common sense. And so on and so forth. |
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