stevestory
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kairosfocusMay 10, 2016 at 5:02 pm
FYI, from a blog post by Harvard Prof Mark Tushnet:
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The culture wars are over; they lost, we won. Remember, they were the ones who characterized constitutional disputes as culture wars . . . For liberals, the question now is how to deal with the losers in the culture wars. That’s mostly a question of tactics. My own judgment is that taking a hard line (“You lost, live with it”) is better than trying to accommodate the losers, who – remember – defended, and are defending, positions that liberals regard as having no normative pull at all. Trying to be nice to the losers didn’t work well after the Civil War, nor after Brown. (And taking a hard line seemed to work reasonably well in Germany and Japan after 1945.) I should note that LGBT activists in particular seem to have settled on the hard-line approach, while some liberal academics defend more accommodating approaches. When specific battles in the culture wars were being fought, it might have made sense to try to be accommodating after a local victory, because other related fights were going on, and a hard line might have stiffened the opposition in those fights. But the war’s over, and we won.
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Sounds familiar?
The slide down the double slippery slopes is underway, and the attitude visible in this and other threads is here seen again.
Our civilisation is beginning to pay a price we will not believe ahead of the full measure. (But those who are pushing the agenda should remember the lesson of the Peloponnessian war: ultimate, mutual ruin.)
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See! See! They admit they're Hitler! Because they said they would act like the Allies acted to the Axis countries, and Axis countries were Hitler!!
Even for KF, this is exceptionally stupid.
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He also hung out with guys. 
