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In reply to the discussion: do men, who do not believe in white male privilege/entitlement oppose affirmative action? [View all]Chathamization
(1,638 posts)for instance, I came across an episode of the TV show "Happy Days" the other day, where one of the boys to attempted to sexually assault his date, and the whole thing was treated as a joke ("You're an animal!" **laugh track**). This in the late 70's.
You're right, the fight is not over at all. But it's difficult sometimes to deal with the changing nature of the beast. It's always easy to look back at what we've decided is bad and tell people how horrible those things were (look at people that expect to get brownie points from saying that slavery was horrible). It's much more difficult to look at our own actions and to think about which of them would be viewed as barbaric by people 30 or 80 years from now (assuming we don't slide backwards).