Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
by cato_the_elder on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:34AM
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> There's this belief that society always moves in a "forward/upward" directory
That's the central fallacy of Whig historiography [1]. It is in part facilitated by the fact that recent history is often written by the victors.
MLK repeated the same fallacy: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Is that the same arc that included two world wars?
Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
by mikkergp on Friday June 24, 2022 @03:44PM
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Just for some context, I once heard commentary about MLK that suggested that that specific statement was made in more of a spiritual tradition than a practical or historical tradition.
That's the central fallacy of Whig historiography [1]. It is in part facilitated by the fact that recent history is often written by the victors.
MLK repeated the same fallacy: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Is that the same arc that included two world wars?
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history