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BainsBane

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122. I singled out the 60s because many people on this site came of age during that time period

Wed Feb 5, 2014, 02:23 AM

Feb 2014

and I have observed the sense that many would like to go back there, as you yourself just confirmed. I have no disdain for any period of history. I already told you that. Not wanting to turn the clock back is not disdain for history. That suggestion itself is strange one to me, since I am a trained historian. All historical time periods are important in different ways because in every time period people lived, loved, and struggled. Nostalgia is not history or historical understanding. Many rights were not won in the sixties but in the 70s all the way through the past few years for gay rights. What you express is precisely why I don't see this site as liberal or progressive. To look backward is to look to restore a period when the few had benefits over the majority. It is by definition reactionary.

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i have no objection to any period of history BainsBane Feb 2014 #17

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I singled out the 60s because many people on this site came of age during that time period BainsBane Feb 2014 #122

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cute slogan BainsBane Feb 2014 #100

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