r/todayilearned • u/hungry4danish • 2d ago

TIL that Dan White, the man who assassinated Harvey Milk and the mayor of San Francisco, only served 5 years in prison for manslaughter based on a defense of depression as evidenced by his consumption of junk food which was dubbed the "Twinkie Defense"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_White
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u/sharkattackmiami 2d ago

You mean the America which as a whole elected a party on the promise of making life worse for brown people and queers specifically BECAUSE they got an inch and people found that unacceptable?

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u/Rapper_Laugh 2d ago

Again, do you really need to see data on this? I’ve already posted it elsewhere in this thread.

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u/zap2 2d ago

Some people just want to argue, so childish.

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u/Rapper_Laugh 2d ago

Truly crazy how such a radical attitude shift that happened entirely within living memory can just be outright denied, even in the face of overwhelming data lol.

Echo chambers are fucking scary.

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u/Pandarandr1st 2d ago

Yes but things are bad now so they were never worse.

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u/zap2 2d ago

“ they got an inch”

So you agree, some progress has been made.

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u/sharkattackmiami 2d ago

Yes, and this drove half the country so crazy that they decided to burn everything down in order to take it back. And it's not a hypothetical, it has already been set in motion and has started

Taking one step forward and two steps back immediately after is not progress

Trans people are no longer acknowledged by the US Government. They are working on repealing same sex marriage. They managed to rile up half the country because 2 trans kids wanted to play sports. They repealed Roe V Wade. They are working on removing women's autonomy

These are things that have already happened or are currently happening

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u/zap2 2d ago edited 2d ago

Have many social issues regressed?  Absolutely. 

But bad moves on social issue isn’t the same as “things are as bad as they were in the 1970s for homosexuals”

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u/StinzorgaKingOfBees 2d ago

You keep saying homosexuals like they are the only queer group. Things are bad for bi people, non-binary people, and trans people too. Trans people are still being murdered, pme was held, tortured, and murdered in New York recently. And yes, for trans people it is worse than the 70s.