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

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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