Comments on: Prohibition https://www.isegoria.net/2013/10/prohibition/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bill https://www.isegoria.net/2013/10/prohibition/comment-page-1/#comment-989414 Bill Wed, 09 Oct 2013 04:30:13 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=32933#comment-989414 If you accept that Burns presents the matter accurately, the US women’s movement was born in those New England towns when housewives went to their pastors to deal with the “crack epidemic” of the 1820′s — cheap whiskey.

The solution that worked was to convince men to change laws to benefit women. A housewife pleading with a bartender works for a day, but let’s face it, sheriffs with guns works much better.

Women push the same buttons today to get lawmakers to pass laws that benefit women. Men are violent pigs — protect us! Never mind that the origin of this campaign was during innocent men’s encounter with cheap whiskey; and yes, I’m sure some of those men got drunk and disorderly. But that was 1827 and this is 2013.

I loved the 19th century prohibition handbill that showed a drunk and disorderly black man with a bottle of rum in one hand and a gun in the other. I guess when associating your movement’s goal with ending slavery works, you use that, but when racism furthers your cause, you go ahead and use that.

]]> By: Chris C. https://www.isegoria.net/2013/10/prohibition/comment-page-1/#comment-988822 Chris C. Tue, 08 Oct 2013 11:50:41 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=32933#comment-988822 If you control the message — media and academia, especially historians — then you can impose your spin on the majority of the populace, who are not willing to spend the time and energy to look behind the curtain.

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