on the wrong side of history: meaning & examples

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Language: English

Meanings:

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    WorldwideformalpoliticalMachine
    • Describing a person, group, or nation that history has judged negatively because their actions or beliefs conflicted with subsequent moral or social developments.

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    • Many historians agree that those who denied women's suffrage are on the wrong side of history.

      Historians generally think that people who opposed women's voting rights are judged negatively by history.

    • The regime’s actions during that period have placed the nation on the wrong side of history.

      The country's government was judged negatively by history because of its actions then.

    • Activists warned that resisting marriage equality would put society on the wrong side of history.

      Activists cautioned that opposing marriage equality would cause society to be judged unfavorably by the future.

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    WorldwideUSUKformalpoliticalpejorativeMachine
    • Aligned with a position, movement, or action that future judgment is likely to condemn as morally or socially regressive.
    • Occupying a stance that is likely to be judged by later generations as unjust, outdated, or opposed to progress.

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    • By opposing civil rights at that time, the politicians found themselves on the wrong side of history.

      Because they opposed civil rights then, the politicians were aligned with a position that future judgment condemns.

    • If we continue to ignore climate change, we risk being on the wrong side of history.

      Continuing to ignore climate change may cause us to be judged negatively by future generations.

    • She realized that supporting segregation put her on the wrong side of history, so she changed her stance.

      She understood that backing segregation aligned her with a morally regressive position, so she shifted her views.

Examples:

  • EN: we're on the wrong side of history.
    ES: Estamos en el lado equivocado de la historia.
  • EN: But you're on the wrong side of history.
    ES: Pero estáis en el lado equivocado de la historia.
  • EN: If you keep fighting progress, you gonna find yourself on the wrong side of history.
    ES: Si sigues combatiendo el progreso la historia te va a dejar atrás.
  • EN: But you don't want to be on the wrong side of history, Shannon.
    ES: Pero no querrás estar en el lado incorrecto de la historia, Shannon.
  • EN: You're on the wrong side of history.
    ES: Estás del lado equivocado de la historia.
  • EN: Unfortunately, a nation on the wrong side of history.
    ES: Desgraciadamente una nación en el lado equivocado de la Historia.
  • EN: You're standing on the wrong side of history right now.
    ES: Justo ahora se encuentran parados en el lado equivocado de la historia.
  • EN: How do you come to be fighting on the wrong side of history?
    ES: ¿Como terminaste peleando en el lado equivocado de la historia?
  • EN: You are on the wrong side of history, Reverend.
    ES: Está en el lado equivocado de la historia, Padre.
  • EN: They're on the wrong side of history, so screw 'em.
    ES: Están del lado equivocado, así que al diablo con ellos.
  • EN: Isn't that homophob shit on the wrong side of history?
    ES: ¿Esa mierda homofóbica no está en el lado equivocado del cuento?
  • EN: Emily: He's been on the wrong side of history for half a century.
    ES: - Él ha estado en el lado equivocado de la historia por medio siglo.
  • EN: You don't want to end up on the wrong side of history again, no?
    ES: No quieres terminar en el lado equivocado de la historia de nuevo, ¿verdad?
  • EN: I placed myself on the wrong side of history.
    ES: Me coloqué en el lado erróneo de la historia.
  • EN: I told them that they were on the wrong side of history.
    ES: Les dije que estuvieron en el lado equivocado de la historia.

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