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It's amazing because in all of these examples the general public has not given a crap about these incidents.

Protesting slavery was extremely difficult. Protesting the workplace got you labeled a communist or socialist.

And now when we protest against climate change or ask for more workers rights or BLM people are generally against it.




Almost as if there's a group of people giving a huge amount of money to the pundits to criticize any progress that's a) not directly driven by profits or b) might negatively affect on their own profits.


Well, we did have a civil war over that first example.


The civil war was about slavery, but it wasn't because the general public hated slavery.




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