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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I actually really like it how the historically helplessly oppressed places are starting to get woke

(Meaning, like, the old definition of woke)

Parts of Georgia and Michigan are turning into these activist hotbeds + I'm here for it

[–] Telodzrum 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tell me you know nothing of American political history without telling me you know nothing of American political history.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

?

“Historically” I meant like 1980-2015 or so

Was I not aware? I thought the big liberal cities on the coasts were the centers of activism, and the middle and the Southeast mostly got preyed upon by the American Thatcherites, and either said “More please” or “Aaaaah it hurts” with none of this “Fuck you stop that” energy that’s coming into play now. But maybe I was unaware of an activist history there?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Idk what that person was referring to, but the hotbeds of American activism, especially worker activism, were in Americas internal periphery for almost all of the 20th century.

Especially labor and equal rights struggles were often in the rural or suburban (this used to mean living near a factory before it meant that joni Mitchell song about the little houses!) near cities as opposed to in the cities themselves.

Heck, it’s trod ground but the government bombed mine workers in ‘21!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Absolutely accurate yes. I meant post 1980; I should have specified. Back in the days when people were making big progress, it was all over (and rural more so than in the cities) as I understand it.