In a comment to this Matt Yglesias post:
It's like the song says: you've got to be carefully taught.
Hearing that ("You've Got to be Carefully Taught") from the Wee Kids on the Kid Power album is surely before Matt's time. (To be fair, I never saw the show on television, since it was a little before _my_ time too. Still have the album though.)
And that seems like a harsh reminder that progress is won only inch by inch. The same sentiment that was an indictment of racism in 1949, and bore repeating in 1974, is equally appropriate regarding homophobia in 2008.
The more things change, the more ... we must fight for change.
It's like the song says: you've got to be carefully taught.
Hearing that ("You've Got to be Carefully Taught") from the Wee Kids on the Kid Power album is surely before Matt's time. (To be fair, I never saw the show on television, since it was a little before _my_ time too. Still have the album though.)
And that seems like a harsh reminder that progress is won only inch by inch. The same sentiment that was an indictment of racism in 1949, and bore repeating in 1974, is equally appropriate regarding homophobia in 2008.
The more things change, the more ... we must fight for change.
