When was the last time that mass protest actually helped change U.S. policy? (lemmy.world)

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I feel that with the complete arrogance and disregard for the law that the Feds will do absolutely nothing.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Maybe gay marriage and other LGBT rights. It was a long fight of various legal and protesting movements, decades

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Well, that's kind of the big problem now. No time for decades of protest.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Think of it as a good way for like minded people to get together.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Suffrage, civil rights, it works. Interracial marriage used to be illegal. Women couldn't vote

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ok but like, protests like those took years. do you think that it's acceptable to wait several years to fix this? Do we need to wait until they have exterminated 10,000 people? Or is it 100,000?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Not acceptable, no. But what is there to do?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I mean historically, people have done violence about this sort of thing.

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