Some of those people (or their children) are still having breakdowns because a black person is in the same store :(
I think a lot of us have picked up, been taught, this idea that like “the past had bad stuff but it’s over now, and everyone’s better, and everyone who was fighting for bad things realized the errors of their ways and repented”.
This is a weird take and I’m not really behind it but… people live too god damn long. If society progresses in some way over ~20 years, the fuckers that didn’t want it to are still around and still raising kids to be like them. You begin to think things are a given, then somebody like trump gives these people a voice again and we’re right back.
There is no solution, society changes over lifetimes not years. The question you are asking is how do we change society quicker, but I dont think its possible. It will likely get worse as life expectancy rises, although we may have hit a peak there somewhat.
Some of those people (or their children) are still having breakdowns because a black person is in the same store :(
I think a lot of us have picked up, been taught, this idea that like “the past had bad stuff but it’s over now, and everyone’s better, and everyone who was fighting for bad things realized the errors of their ways and repented”.
They were raised by people who, in their day, could outright lynch that person with the consent, if not support, of the (local) law.
This is a weird take and I’m not really behind it but… people live too god damn long. If society progresses in some way over ~20 years, the fuckers that didn’t want it to are still around and still raising kids to be like them. You begin to think things are a given, then somebody like trump gives these people a voice again and we’re right back.
Yeah I don’t know what the solution is. Just killing all your ideological opponents probably isn’t it.
Preventing the concentration of wealth and power and investing heavily in education would probably help
There is no solution, society changes over lifetimes not years. The question you are asking is how do we change society quicker, but I dont think its possible. It will likely get worse as life expectancy rises, although we may have hit a peak there somewhat.