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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 05:43 PM Original message |
A question about incremental change |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
1. Less Than Ten Years Ago A Gay Person Could Be Thrown In The Pokey |
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 05:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Wrong. Being gay was not illegal. Sodomy was illegal in a handful of states .................... |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 06:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. That's A Difference Without A Distinction |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 06:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. That seems like quibbling |
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 06:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. I never said it ws right. I was just stating a fact. Being gay was not illegal, but the |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 06:05 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. that is a good example. |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 06:09 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. It Was A Successful Appeal To Folks Hearts And Minds |
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arcane1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
7. Some recent history from here in gay ol' lubrul San Francisco: |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 07:27 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Can you explain further? |
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arcane1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 07:51 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Now we have things like Pride parades, briefly-legal gay marriage... |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
9. That's becasue the right enbraces incremental change, and the left does not. |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 06:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Enough Incremental Change And You End Up In A Very Different Place |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 07:14 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. True enough |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 10:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. I am not sure that I agree with your premise |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 10:20 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. That's a new and short lived phenomenon. |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
11. civil rights for blacks and minorities is all incremental change |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 07:20 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. In the last 30 years? |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 08:20 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. He's refering to when Blacks started being seen as human. |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
16. widow's fund...percursor to ss. n/t |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 09:57 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. I would not argue that, but it is not the question I asked. |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
18. it is worth noting that the US GOVT is set up for incremental change, not rapid change |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-18-10 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
20. Incremental change since Reagan by the Repubicans is a very real thing today |
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