Thinking out loud, when has a movement made up predominantly of middle aged women, most of whom are mothers, ever been on the “wrong side” of child protection and safeguarding? Ever?
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Replying to @DanialWebb @injiduducu
rule of thumb exception: "apart from those working as/for religious and anti-scientific reactionaries (of any creed)" .
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hasn’t nearly every group been on the right side of history if you exclude all of the reactionaries from the group lol
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OP didn't ask "right side of history" but specifically safeguarding, so answer to your Q is no, they haven't.
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Replying to @dreckweb @roarin_waterz and
White women in the South who organized in favor of segregation absolutely did see it as a matter of "child safeguarding"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreckweb and
Lol at the idea that there's any kind of opposition between "reactionary" and "safeguarding" Every reactionary movement in the history of the world has positioned itself as a "child safeguarding" movement, it's the most potent possible rallying cry Read the 14 Words
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Replying to @arthur_affect @roarin_waterz and
talking about reality rather than perception/"positioning", though realise the identity brigade would struggle with that.
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Replying to @dreckweb @arthur_affect and
I mean...you get that at the time those folks’ perception was that those things WERE reality, right? That’s literally what “being on the wrong side of history” is—when folks are committed a a cause that they believe is based in reality that we later discover was not.
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Replying to @Truxillogical @dreckweb and
And in most cases, there are people at the time who know full well it’s not. But it’s the whole “history” thing that bears it out.
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That's the hilarious thing about this, the instant pivot from "A crowd of outraged moms can't possibly be wrong!" to "Well if you set aside all of these famous instances where they were extremely wrong, nevertheless"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Truxillogical and
Which brings us to temperance.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreckweb and
“Well, you see, the difference is, those mothers were WRONG, but we’re RIGHT! Because we’re mothers!”
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