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Looking back, how often has social conservatism been on the right side of human rights and wellbeing vs social liberalism?

Black folks not being property, women getting to vote, gay people getting the same rights as every other citizen...these are the things that were opposed by the socially conservative and championed by the socially liberal.
These days the socially conservative like to label progressive social ideas as "woke" and this is meant to be a dirty word...but you could easily apply "woke" to the idea of treating slaves as human beings or thinking that women actually are competent adults who can vote.

If you're being honest, how often has being socially conservative proved to be on the wrong side of human well-being?
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Yeah thats one thing that really fucks the conservative platform; they've got a really really bad track record.

The thing is, not everything they advocate for is entirely pointless. Some of it makes logical sense. But the fact that they have been on the wrong side of history so many times makes it real easy to throw the baby out with the bath water.

One could call it karma.
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Yeah i agree that there is a place for social conservatism. We can't just accept everything without question.
The problem seems to arise when they decide that their conservative sensibilities are more important than human well-being.