150 years ago was 1873. Toilet paper was invented in 1857. Before that people used, as the inventor of toilet paper called them, "toxic inked papers". "Toxic inked papers" are just newspapers.
Unlikely it was ubiquitous by 1873. People were still wiping with newspapers all the way into 1970s , 80s and even 90s in Eastern Europe. Source: been there, done that.
Liberals usually dont care if if someone is Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Athiest, etc. Their expectation is that people be treated as humans regardless of race, religion, gender. You know, like the Constitution says.
American conservatives usually believe in white Christianity. Any other form of religion is unacceptable to them. They advocate a state religion or at least that laws be based on religious beliefs that are openly discriminatory to other religions and beliefs.
Right wing news sources claim that liberals are anti Christianity or anti white people and the like. But the reality is liberals believe in equality while right wingers believe in inferiority of other religions, races, genders. Right wing conservatives are so far from believing in equality that to them equality looks like discrimination against them.
"Liberals usually dont care if if someone is Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Athiest, etc. Their expectation is that people be treated as humans regardless of race, religion, gender. You know, like the Constitution says."
This unfortunately is no longer true. Liberals - well, progressives - now believe we should be treated equitably, not equally. This means you are treated according to your status on the grievance ladder. How many grievance boxes can you check?
I consider myself moderate, and I prefer that everyone be treated equally - no favoritism for white Christians, and also no favoritism for people whose ancestors were treated poorly. Equality, not equity.
I am somewhere in between these positions. Treat equally and equitably, taking into account the work and abilities of a person and also any hardships that someone may have overcome. This can be a relatively subjective endeavor. One-size-fits-all programs could steer government resources to the exact wrong persons in some cases, but hopefully to the right persons most of the time, allowing society to advance faster than doing nothing at all. To not recognize at all the unequal opportunities that arise from differences in where one was born and how they were raised is unfair.
Seems like back then, things were better, no tv. No Internet, just living off the land.
In 1873, in the ruins of the Civil War, no antibiotics, heat in the winter, no AC in the summer, running water and electricity not yet in homes, Native Americans genocide in progress, with the Great Depression and two World Wars on the way? No thanks.
Please, take a history class, or read a book on it (Sapiens by Yuval Harari is a fun one, for non-historians).
In the streets of 19th-century New York, “The American Natives”, led by Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis), and the “Dead Rabbits”, led by Priest Vallon (Li...
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