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In reply to the discussion: Is DU a Liberal Message Board? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)the very rights you claim to care so much about WERE FOUGHT FOR AND WON. Without the sixties and the people who risked their lives and their reputations and went out into the streets, some actually KILLED, thanks Nixon, there WOULD BE NO PROGRESS. Women and minorities would still be where they were in the fifties.
I have seen this before, this singling out of the sixties for attack, it's always been laughable to see those who hated that era BECAUSE of what was accomplished for women and for minorities and for the elderly and the sick.
Odd that you singled out the sixties, I'm familiar with the disdain for that era, but generally not on the Left.
Odd that you didn't say 'I don't want to go back to the FIFTIES, when we had McCarthy and spying on the 'Commies' and women were in the kitchen and 'belonged there' and didn't dare speak out for themselves.
No, you pick the period when all these oppressions were CHALLENGED. I would LOVE To have participated in that era. As a woman and a Democrat.
They had Television and Radio and Phones at that time, some people thought it was all that new technology that caused the problems with women and minorities thinking they had a right to raise their voices.
Technology has and always will be advancing since they first discovered fire.
We have done very little with all this new technology compared to what they accomplished in the 'sixties with the technology they put to so much good use. We need more people like those who were around back then. Before those who are here now take us all the way back to the fifties.