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I don't think many people who were not white, christian and straight felt a ton of social trust in the era you are harkening back to.

• lghh 5y ago
  Agreed. So is the solution to reduce white social trust as well or to empower non-white social trust?
  • Kluny 5y ago
    I think it might be. When those who benefit from the current paradigm are forced to experience the pain that everyone else has been dealing with, they get motivated change things and they have the power to make it happen.
    • Der_Einzige 5y ago
      In practice, this doesn't happen. Instead they vote for people like trump.
• react_burger38 5y ago
  Well actually… Thomas Sowell (who is black) talks about how he felt safe going around on his own in Harlem in the 40s and 50s, and never heard a gunshot. So there actually was a fair amount of social trust / actual safety in black communities even then. With the obvious caveat of course that interracial violence was still a risk. But at least within black communities then, yes there was more social trust.
  • watwut 5y ago
    I dont think it is reasonable to take history of one place as told by literally one person and extrapolate from it whole nation.
    • textgel 5y ago
      You have failed to provide an alternate source.