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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Dainbramadge · 56-60, M

Ah Black folks not being property????
You think that was a liberal???
That liberal Abe Lincoln??
Also:
"It was on May 21st of 1919, just six months after the end of the first World War, that the Republican lead House of Representatives passed the re-introduced 19th Amendment by a vote of 304 to 89 (91% of Republicans, 59% of Democrats)."

Pikachu

@Dainbramadge

Oh please don't conflate socially liberal vs conservative with political parties.
Certainly there is a strong correlation but they are not married one with the other.

The modern Republican party would be unrecognizable to Lincoln. Let's not be deceived by party names when what we're actually discussing is the philosophy.

Dainbramadge · 56-60, M

@Pikachu But don't the political parties represent the views of the people who voted them into office???
How else are you going to compare????

Pikachu

@Dainbramadge

Well yes they do.
But does the fact that democrats today tend to be more socially liberal than republicans mean that in the past this was always so?
Of course not.
So what's the point talking about parties rather than the actual subject?

OggggO · 36-40, M

@Dainbramadge Yes, Abe Lincoln was in fact a liberal. Please learn the barest bones of history before you talk about it.