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No, for the same reason Clippy can't see my argument that it's not beneficial to tile the universe with paper clips. All arguments like this depend on certain premises, and you either share those premises with me or you don't. If you don't, no argument can be given. And in this case, if you do, the argument is trivial.
So from your point of view nearly all people up to ~50 years ago as well as most people today are clippies?
If nearly all people 50 years ago thought homosexuality should be punishable by death, then there would have been quite a lot of executed homosexuals back then. There were in Nazi Germany, but Nazi Germany is not "nearly all people" and when Germany did stop mass murdering homosexuals, it didn't happen because someone made a successful argument.
If nearly all people today think homosexuality should be punishable by death, there would be a lot more executed than actually are. Of course, there are large groups which still think so, but I doubt they can be persuaded by argument, and in that sense they are equivalent to Clippy.