Re:GOP’s Big Tech plan ignores consumers, targets censorship...
by dragonwriter on Thursday July 08, 2021 @05:34PM
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The Hays Code was instituted by a trade association responding to pressure from religious and family groups of the type that are now a key section of the GOP base (at the time, they were not particularly associated with the GOP because theb first half of the double overlapping partisan realignment—New Deal + Civil Rights—that resulted in that association had only just started.)
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Re:GOP’s Big Tech plan ignores consumers, targets censorship...
by iammisc on Friday July 09, 2021 @09:44AM
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At the time, the religious group being responded to (Catholics) were solidly democrats. Catholics have been solidly democrat until 2016. There is no way you can blame the GOP for Catholic behavior.
Re:GOP’s Big Tech plan ignores consumers, targets censorship...
by dragonwriter on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:48AM
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> There is no way you can blame the GOP for Catholic behavior.
There's no way you can meaningfully associate the modern political parties with pretty much anything of the 1930s, because aside from the names, little is the same about the parties. You could blame the Hays Code on pressure from Catholic social conservatives, and observe that that is now a GOP constituency, but how meaningful that is depends very much on what you are trying to get to from it.
> Catholics have been solidly democrat until 2016.
No, they haven't; they’ve been split roughly evenly between the parties for much longer (this data only goes back to 1992, and shows it true the whole time):
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/09/13/2-party-affi...