"So... social clubs have to let in blacks, now? Is that what you're saying?"
Ironically, this kind of baiting is exactly one of the contributors to social dissolution I'm talking about. Speaking at the PTA? Better hope one of your "neighbors" doesn't decide it's politically convenient to crucify you as having said something Wrong and put it on your Permanent Record.
To give you a concrete for-instance of "entryism", the Campus Christian Club being forbidden to discriminate based on religion. Or, ongoing conflicts between the lesbian community and trans people who wish to participate in it, and between the broader feminist community and its lesbian contingent. Or, the institutional weakness of political parties in the US due to inability to restrict their memberships by ideology, and consequent flow of power to more unaccountable groups.
It's probably not a huge contributor to social dissolution, all things considered, but there is a reason why it is said that "good fences make good neighbors".
To support your suggestion, look at the decline of benefit societies, fraternal orders, clubs and the like. Things that have impacted them are: threat from broad anti-discrimination penalty powers; displacement of things like aid/insurance with government programs that are more widely available but administered by distant, impersonal bureaucracies; a general American "anti-exclusivity" attitude; stricter enforcement of separation of church and state issues.
I'm not necessarily suggesting we should go back, after all those changes were made for good reasons. But it could be that those changes also had serious negative effects that have to be factored into social planning.
On the other hand, I could be mixing up cause and effect.
>Speaking at the PTA? Better hope one of your "neighbors" doesn't decide it's politically convenient to crucify you as having said something Wrong and put it on your Permanent Record.
I know petty things happen when nothing is on the line, but your idea of the average PTA is ludicrous. There is no permanent record; People forget even controversial ideas quickly in such a situation. You have to act like a total douchebag to make a permanent negative impression on something like a PTA.
Ironically, this kind of baiting is exactly one of the contributors to social dissolution I'm talking about. Speaking at the PTA? Better hope one of your "neighbors" doesn't decide it's politically convenient to crucify you as having said something Wrong and put it on your Permanent Record.
To give you a concrete for-instance of "entryism", the Campus Christian Club being forbidden to discriminate based on religion. Or, ongoing conflicts between the lesbian community and trans people who wish to participate in it, and between the broader feminist community and its lesbian contingent. Or, the institutional weakness of political parties in the US due to inability to restrict their memberships by ideology, and consequent flow of power to more unaccountable groups.
It's probably not a huge contributor to social dissolution, all things considered, but there is a reason why it is said that "good fences make good neighbors".