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BatRinseRepeat · 31-35, F
Except for a few brief periods, I think its always been this way.
The Civil War, the Great Depression, and Vietnam were in fact much worse than most of what we agonize over now.
Money, power, and privelge have always divided us more than politics. But we keep fooling ourselves that we can fix the problem by just changing parties.
The Civil War, the Great Depression, and Vietnam were in fact much worse than most of what we agonize over now.
Money, power, and privelge have always divided us more than politics. But we keep fooling ourselves that we can fix the problem by just changing parties.
bijouxbroussard · F
@BatRinseRepeat The scary thing is that we're going backwards. One of my father's earliest memories is of the Klan lynching one of uncles, for encouraging neighbors to vote. Pop said they burned him alive. That such a terrorist organization would still exist in the 21st and a sitting president would hesitate to condemn them is unconscionable. That his supporters would dismiss their beliefs as merely a "difference of opinion" is terrifying considering how far we had come.
BatRinseRepeat · 31-35, F
@bijouxbroussard
I can't disagree with any experience that painful and personal.
But I wonder how much of what we see and hear now is the effect of individual access to mass media. Is it possible we've always had about the same number of people, with the same extreme views? Has the internet just given them a new way to express and magnify their fringe politics?
I can't disagree with any experience that painful and personal.
But I wonder how much of what we see and hear now is the effect of individual access to mass media. Is it possible we've always had about the same number of people, with the same extreme views? Has the internet just given them a new way to express and magnify their fringe politics?
bijouxbroussard · F
@BatRinseRepeat That's a fair point. I'm probably feeling shell shocked because these people are deciding the Bay Area is the place to cut their teeth on the "Hate Speech = Free Speech" movement. I'm not used to having to deal with that as much in what has been a bastion of liberal, progressive thought.
BatRinseRepeat · 31-35, F