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In reply to the discussion: Is DU a Liberal Message Board? [View all]BainsBane
(53,031 posts)Uh, incorrect: The French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, The Haitian Revolution, The Mexican Revolution, The Chinese Revolution, Tupac Amaru II/Tupac Katari, and the Arab Spring. all come to mind.
Again, your continued distortion of my points is irritating. I do not and did not attack the accomplishments of the sixties, any more than any other period. I said I do not want to return to a period where people are denied basic rights, which was the case during the 60s. You can pretend turning the clock back is liberal all you want. It is simply false. It is to return to white male supremacist rule.
You want to go back to when married women could not own property, when it was legal to discriminate in hiring against people of color, women, and gay people. That may be many things, but liberal is not among them.
This idea of deciding some periods of history are good and some bad reveals a superficial view of history. Much of what you likely think are sixties movements began in the forties and fifties (Civil Rights) and continued well into the seventies (the Women's Movement). Gay rights movements scored their major victories far, far later. Your nostalgic view of the past also shows an outdated understanding of what history is, ignoring the fields of social and cultural history that date (among historians of the US) from the seventies and eighties.