Online, mug shots are forever – some states want to change that

Re:Online, mug shots are forever – some states want to chang... by laurent92 on Friday May 14, 2021 @04:32PM (#27159374)

We shouldn’t describe the past as extremely one thing. Because when I discovered there was a gay street and plenty of gay clubs in Berlin up to 1934, I started to entirely distrust a lot of things I had been taught about the past. The wedge got driven even further when I learnt Archimedes didn’t say Eureka, Galileo didn’t say “E pur se mueve!” to the pope (so… was he ever imprisoned? did Christians even question the round earth?) and the ILO 1930 treaty against slavery included all humans… except men. Until 1957. Which quite relativizes the narrative about women’s suffrage.

It’s dangerous to transform History into storytelling for one cause, because it makes people distrust it profoundly.

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Re:Online, mug shots are forever – some states want to chang... by ksdale on Friday May 14, 2021 @04:37PM (#27159417)

Yeah for sure, that's not to say it was always a certain way or that it's an inevitable march towards anything, just that massive shifts in culture do happen (and I think as your comment illustrates, cultures changes much faster than we think!).

We tend to think it's easier to change the law than to change how people feel, and that's not always true.

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