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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markansas

Social conservatism in the United States is a political ideology focused on the preservation of traditional values and beliefs. it changes by the children one generation at a time. its slow. and in some areas its even slower.. texas the last time a black was dragged by a chain behind a truck till he fell apart was in the 1998. and that was not long ago..
https://mynbc15.com/news/local/white-supremacist-who-dragged-black-man-behind-truck-will-be-executed-this-week
the men felt entitled to do so .. it was there right as a white man. THAT WAS 24 YEARS AGO
In the early morning hours of June 7, 1998, three white men beat Byrd after offering him a ride. They then chained the 49-year-old to the back of a truck and dragged his body for nearly 3 miles along a secluded road in the piney woods outside Jasper. Byrd was alive for at least two miles before his body was ripped to pieces. Prosecutors said he was targeted because he was black.
was this what you wanted to know?

woke is a good thing.
Woke is an English adjective meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination" that originated in African-American

Pikachu

@markansas

Jesus fuck...1998. Wow.
It's hard to consider being woke a bad thing when placed against ugliness like that.

markansas

@Pikachu ya i know . it still goes on and you dont see it a much. so the times they are changing. figure my age and how much has changed.. it is not fast enough and so they teach woke in schools now. some people dont want to change.. its in the cops the army and all of the armed services.. trump brought them out hiding thats all.
so please be woke and wake others.. you see them here posting things all the time . most have blocked me .. i remember too much .. i pull links so others can see them.. just look at my postings . and my white board to know me.. i check others to see what way they lean before i respond on there post.. you can learn alot about someone by reading there past postings. as i have read yours also.. mark

Pikachu

@markansas

Too many people are so resistant to accepting things they didn't grow up with and too many people take that discomfort too far. As you say, men like Trump help stoke that hatred and make those people feel validated in their hatred of social acceptance and progression.

But i suppose that we're still progressing rather than regressing so that is comforting.

markansas

@Pikachu i will not see it in my life time .. maybe my grand children will. there will always be hate.. and we have not even started to talk about the native Americans yet. and manifist destiny.. which was the death of the tribes and there land. by the trail of tears.
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 American Indians of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. Part of the Indian removal, the ethnic cleansing was gradual, occurring over a period of nearly two decades. At Least 15000 Native Americans Died on the Trail of Tears
https://www.britannica.com/event/Trail-of-Tears

so white man used this as a excuse.. manifest destiny
Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
DONT get me wrong i love the usa . there is part of it i just dont like.

Pikachu

@markansas

It's ok to love your country but not love everything it does or has done.