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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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summersmiles · 51-55, F
@redredred oh you mean like Reaganomics over New Deal economics.
redredred · M
@summersmiles it was FDR that unnecessarily prolonged the Great Depression with his stumblings and idiocy. It was Reagan that brought down the USSR. With a bit of help from a Polish pope, a Polish electrician and Lady Thatcher.
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Thanks Thomas. Not really an example but it is a pithy quote lol
LegendofPeza · 61-69, M
@redredred Thatcher was never a Lady , that's a title saved only for Royals. She became Baroness Thatcher after being given a life peerage when she left office.
redredred · M
@LegendofPeza that’s your takeaway from what I wrote. Cool
LegendofPeza · 61-69, M
@redredred No , that was me correcting your mistake.