Mr Reynholm wrote:
That is ridiculous. The Civil Rights Act was not passed to keep up with the Soviets.
Was it passed in a vacuum? Certainly many factors played a role, but to pretend like America wasn't tired of Soviet criticisms that rang true wasn't one probably isn't grounded in reality.
Of course, to pretend it was entirely foreign pressure and not at all due to the work of American activists working to secure that outcome would be ignoring reality.
Civil rights leaders were able to pressure enough of America into realizing how it was failing in this regard that the Americans who resisted it couldn't stop it so they've just been working to erode that success ever since.
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Watching liberals try to solve societal problems without a systemic critique/class consciousness is like watching someone in the dark try to flip on the light switch, but they keep turning on the garbage disposal instead.
戦争ではなく戦争と戦う
06 Jul 2021, 10:33 pm
