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Re:Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform by kelseyfrog on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:45PM (#30392761)
> Thankfully, many of those policies were short-lived.

How exactly do you figure? I'm looking at women's suffrage in 1920, Reconstruction era and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and North Carolina's property requirement removal in 1856 and I'm not sure if our ideas of short-lived are similar.

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Re:Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform by joshuamorton on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:49PM (#30392807)
True, I actually agree with you, although I've gotten pushback before for saying that they weren't short-lived, because some places (e.g. Boston) did get rid of the property requirement only a year or two after the founding, and women could vote in NJ in 1776, but lost the ability in 1807.

So like I think its probably most precise to say that they were usually long-lived, but not universally. I'll reword my prior comment but leave this here.

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