re: #8 goddamnedfrank

The reason that people were fighting and dying in the streets of the South is because those States were violating the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The whole point of passing the 14th Amendment was to prevent civil rights from being subject to a referendum by popular vote.

Jesus Christ, this is so much fail from someone who should know better.

This is the classic argument against any strong push (including legislation) to end any form of discrimination or exploitation.

Child labor would have just gone away by itself, there was no need to pass all those laws.

Civil rights would have just naturally bloomed, there was no need for all that ugliness.

Women would have eventually achieved social equality in a natural way without all those shrill feminists.

Slavery would have just naturally ended, leading to a much nicer society than the one we got by fighting a war over it.

The whole world was so sorry after the Holocaust that anti-Semitism was just over, and then the Jews had to ruin it for themselves by insisting on establishing a nation.

And so on, ad infinitum.