On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, SA wrote:
> I wonder about that though. When it comes to social freedom for blacks,
> say, isn't it possible to say that the real transformation came in the
> 50's and 60's, and that everything since then has just been about the
> logical results of that transformation? The same thing could be
> suggested about gays in the 70's. This is a question rather than a
> statement.
I don't think it flies. "Just the logical result" doesn't really apply to social life. Some transformations don't have logical results; they get reversed. The civil war amendments, for example. That's why we had to redo them 100 years later.
Michael