The civil rights movement did in fact play out over a long period of time featuring many incremental gains. EO 8802 is in 1941, Voting Rights Act happens 25 years later, and a lot of stuff happened in between. - ThreadSky

mattyglesias.bsky.social • 126 days ago

The civil rights movement did in fact play out over a long period of time featuring many incremental gains.

EO 8802 is in 1941, Voting Rights Act happens 25 years later, and a lot of stuff happened in between.

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@mattyglesias.bsky.social in the civil rights era: "No, no, you can't get your rights all at once. It would be too radical"

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nullhedge.bsky.social•126 days ago

I don't know if you've noticed, but the civil rights movement isn't over, bruh.

havethelastward.bsky.social•126 days ago

something about the slow hiring of hard boards amirite!

youngdrum.bsky.social•126 days ago

Almost

havethelastward.bsky.social•126 days ago

haha yeah, autocorrect didn’t catch me there

ashepard11.bsky.social•126 days ago

There is a good article from Bridgespan on this: https://www.bridgespan.org/insights/policy-incrementalism-how-philanthropy-can-support-change

"we analyzed 10 major, national policy advances in the United States over the past century—progressive to conservative...On average, those big policy victories came from at least 40 smaller wins over 25–30 years."

jonmontgo.bsky.social•126 days ago

And you would have been there all the way, telling people how they can't just get their rights - they have to earn them over a long slow course of suffering.

post-enjoyer.bsky.social•126 days ago

that's a great point. have you considered making it on twitter? and logging out of this site entirely?

maxmilstein.bsky.social•126 days ago

Also, the work of the civil rights movement isn't over, there's still stuff to fight for 60 years after the Civil rights act, and I'd bet real money that the quoted skeeter agrees!

fakepatrick.bsky.social•126 days ago

People think gay rights basically happened overnight but the gay rights movement started in the 1830s! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_homosexual_movement

dbcooperstan.bsky.social•126 days ago

Arguably the most historically significant achievement for the cause in this period was the Civil Rights Act of 1957 which didn’t do much at all but poked a hole in the southern bloc

maxmilstein.bsky.social•126 days ago

I wonder how we would view the 1957 act in the alternate universe where the 64 act never passes.

dbcooperstan.bsky.social•126 days ago

It would be even more forgotten than it already is

chrismcneil.bsky.social•126 days ago

shocking take from the dude who named his blog slow boring

dchewitt.bsky.social•126 days ago

It's a failure of education that most Americans don't learn about the pre 1960s civil rights movement. It's understandable that people are ignorant about how long the movement existed. This ignorance of history is a major weakness of amateur political commentators.

horseshoetheory.bsky.social•126 days ago

Many of the important doctrines in the 64 act were either added later by amendment or judicial interpretation. Sexual harassment doctrine very slowly develops in the late 70s isn’t affirmed by the Supreme Court until 1986.

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