• blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    They got some improvements. They didn’t fundamentally change or fix anything. And that still required a massive movement. It also involved global political pressure caused by the US attempting to “compete” with the USSR morally (the US needed to improve its image during the Cold War so they could keep doing what they were doing). But I don’t think you can easily compare the civil rights movement with someone hired for a job to “change [their job] from the inside”. Usually if you don’t do your job, you get fired (or fined, or imprisoned, or worse). And then you’re not on the inside.