Quote (thesnipa @ Apr 28 2022 02:19pm)
that's a joke. riots didnt happen while we had an active occupation of the south, something that was of course unsustainable. and the 1960s were still fairly small changes, drinking fountains and dinner counters. did nothing to prevent white flight, actually fix school integration, give reparations, or anything else analogous to the complete reform you're suggesting schools should get in short order.
and of course like most deeply biased people you fail to sense the pendulum. fast change for thee means fast change for the other side. incremental changes have slowed down conservatives as much as they've slowed you down. your want is the same as giving everyone a gun for "safety" and expecting less gun violence.
You're right. We didn't have riots in the south that lead to change. We had a literal civil war.
Hard to argue that the civil rights act is a small change honestly. Didn't solve everything, but wasn't a small incremenetal change by any stretch of the imagination.
Neither of these things were small or incremental, and while they didn't solve everything they did solve some things, when we did leave it to incremental changes it didn't solve anything.
We can do sweeping changes to the school system much easier than we can fight a civil war and free slaves.