On Wed, June 19, 2013 9:25 am, Melinda Shore wrote:
On 6/19/13 8:12 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
On 6/19/13 10:00 AM, Melinda Shore wrote:
On 6/19/13 7:56 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
Why do you believe that my opinions are unexamined? I have been
thinking and reading about social, cultural, and personal change
for a very long time.
You made an assertion that's at least a little ahistorical,
That depends on which historians you've been reading.
Peter, it's a fact in the US and Canada that court cases preceded
civil rights protections which preceded social change. This has been
true for racial minorities, women, glbt folk, etc. I expect that
there are historians who'd argue otherwise but allow me to suggest
that if so they are very, very far out of the mainstream.
Civil rights? A "whites only" lunch counter or drinking fountain is
a matter of civil rights. When there is active prohibition on a class
there is a matter of civil rights. But the mere fact that the numbers
are overwhelmingly one-sided does not make a civil rights issue.
Between 1995 and 2008, 84% of the people killed by lighting strikes
were male. Is that evidence of discrimination? Is that a civil rights
issue? What do you propose to do to rectify that statistic?
Dan.