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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Burnley123 · 41-45, M

Never.

Martin Luther King had a -75% approval rating before he died. At the time, he was actually seen as a radical leftist by the mainstream. Now his support is near-universal because he was on the right side of history.

The people who attack BLM and trans rights activists also tacitly support the gains made by the civil rights movement and a lot even support gay rights equality. However, they also think that this time it is different.

This new fad of extreme radical leftism in which universities are corrupting the youth and destroying society blah blah.

It's all been said many times before. People who say this kind of thing have no historical self-awareness. They also have no understanding of how struggles of the past (that their past equivalents opposed) gained so many of the things that they now take for granted.

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@Burnley123

Yeah that seems to be the pattern.
After they've lost the battle and (for example) gay people have the right to marry, most conservative people get on board with that but then the idea of transgenders is a bridge too far....well we'll see i guess lol