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Wholesome childhood memory (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/facepalm

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[–] Donkter 85 points 7 months ago (16 children)

A different, much more racist time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (15 children)

Yes, and oddly also somehow no. Yes, people were often super racist by modern standards, but there was also a less polarized societal climate and stuff like this flew by without anyone batting an eye or feeling offended over a costume like this.

Inclusion is of course better nowadays but I miss the innocence the past. People were much better taking bad takes in stride.

E: because it needs clarification, again: This isnt an american perspective. Stop assuming everyone was racist as fuck to black people just because you guys kept them as slaves, thanks

[–] TSG_Asmodeus 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Yes, people were often super racist by modern standards, but there was also a less polarized societal climate and stuff like

It's funny, people always say this, but it just isn't true. Like somehow racism was okay for awhile, and everyone just agreed on that. I think about the following quotes

[…] They’re violent, they’re vicious, they’re ignorant, and they will cut us up. That’s their intent. To cut us up. [To Juror #7.] I’m warning you. This boy, this boy on trial here. We’ve got him. That’s one at least. I say get him before his kind gets us. I don’t give a goddamn about the law." -Juror #10

"It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth." -Juror #8.

These are quotes from a 1954 teleplay. We didn't just suddenly decide one day "hey wait a minute, prejudice against someone based on skin colour... is stupid, and wrong!" It always was, and we always knew it, but we didn't stop it until an event moved us to.

Inclusion is of course better nowadays but I miss the innocence the past

I mean this in the least offensive way possible, but I am also a white male, and I think you'll find that the past isn't so innocent.

[–] CertifiedBlackGuy 3 points 7 months ago

wait until he finds out about the KKK.

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