Social Changes Past Present and Future

[Fudd]

In the past centries, the world has undergone many social changes and is still going through ongoing social changes today.

In the past some of these were considered acceptable

denying the right to vote to women
denying the right to vote for African Americans
denying the right vote to Chinese
cock fighting
dog fighting
crminalization of homosexuality
blatant racism
discrimination of the handicaped
unregulated gun use
paying women less than men for the same job
smoking in public
and many others

And when people demanded there rights they were thought of as crack pots, revolutionaries and even terrorists. At one time the concept of allowing women to take part in there countries political policies was considered rediculous. But the mondern women's suffrage put a change to this blatant violation of human rights. I admire those early pioneers who fought for social justice who had to endure the ridicule of the ignorant. One story that stands out was one I heard on the History Channel were demonstrators for the womens right to vote who were pelted with tomatos as they demonstrated.

During the civil rights movement in the US, those in power even used the police to crush the demand for basic human rights. Many early civil rights workers were arrested and thrown into jails and even murdered by the police.

Furtunately today we all enjoy the benifits of social changes and human rights that were fought for by pioneers. But social changes still continue today. Within my lifetime I have witnessed many changes, laws to protect animals from being hunted down and killed for there furs, laws giving homosexuals equal rights in marraige, sticture gun laws to protect the public, laws against smoking and many others.

But the struggle continues, but so does the fight for social change. Even todays pioneers for social change face being branded as cooks and terrorists. Today is the first day of a near year, of a new future, what social changes will we see?

 

[Fudd]

Loved how he slipped in the gun use issue in here.




But apparently you dont need me to protect you you have your precious guns to protecty you.

 

[island-guy]

But apparently you dont need me to protect you you have your precious guns to protecty you.

Did you actually finally understand something?

WOW.. a first for the new year.

Now if only you could learn to spell.

Seriously, whatever happened to literacy as a basic human right?

Your posts set the literacy movement back DECADES

 

[Thatotherguy]

OK Fudd, you'd better not be daring to compare your own misguided crusades with the hard work and sacrifice of the heroes who have actually fought (and continue to fight) to make the world a better place. The difference between you and the real heroes is that the real heroes understand the issues that they're fighting for (usually because those issues are part and parcel of their day-to-day lives), and care more about actually causing change than they do about smugly making people think that they're interested in change.

You, on the other hand, are smug, self-righteous, and don't bother to try to understand the issues that you're "fighting" for well enough to actually effect any sort of meaningful change. You're nothing more than a sound-bite poser. People like you are the people who make a lot of noise, but do nothing other than hurt the causes that you're supposedly fighting for, since you're the crack pots who provide the excuse for much of the population to dismiss everyone fighting for the same cause as being crack pots.

 

[SeaToSky]

It's interesting those on the left, like FUDD, tend to support various types of "rights" for the people, except when it comes to gun rights. They have a phobia of violence, and guns are associated with violence, and thus the vehement opposition against people's right to bear arms. What they don't realize is that violence is merely a tool, and there're justified and unjustified use of violence. I think if they get their way, they'll ban boxing and martial arts as well.

This show at its core, the liberal left-wing ideology is a soft, feminine, sissified ideology. It's all heart and caring, no brain and logic.

Remember, a man with a gun is a citizen, a man without a gun is a subject, or a post-op transexual. I'm not sure what FUDD is.

 

[Thatotherguy]

Remember, a man with a guy is a citizen, a man without a gun is a subject, or a post-op transexual.

Wait, a man with a guy is a citizen? I'm confused, are you saying that only gay guys can be citizens? Oh wait, did you mean to say a man with a gun is a citizen?