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Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by nilkn on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:36PM (#7526390)
> The idea that slavery is wrong or women should have the right to vote never got less accepted over time.

This cannot be the case, because those ideas have not existed since the beginning of time. They had an origin and therefore an upward trajectory towards their reification in law.

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Re:Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO by jcromartie on Thursday April 03, 2014 @08:34PM (#7528284)
With a scant few matriarchal societies aside, most of human history is absolutely dominated by men making other men and women subservient to them. That's the story of humanity.
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