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If you were white, straight, cis, and particularly male, then this is true. Everyone else, eh not so much!

• jimbokun 5y ago
  “Fight the Power” rap groups were incredibly popular then, and enjoyed a lot of support across races. The movement for same sex marriage started in earnest then. Feminism didn’t start in the 2000s. All of those groups had a lot to say in the 90s, and the norms protecting free speech enabled them to say it, even when it was unpopular.
  • gilbetron 5y ago
    And they were "canceled" like crazy. People spoke up about all these issues, and were fired, beaten, jailed, killed, and worse. But a white dude totally could say what he wanted to, kinda.
    • noduerme 5y ago
      This is a really toxic, ahistorical attitude that pays no attention to the many individuals of all races and genders who sacrificed for greater equality. It also fails to address the situation of a nonwhite person now who is cancelled for disagreeing with woke sloganeering, or explain how that's justified just because someone else was evil to someone else in the past.
      • gilbetron 5y ago
        I disagree. Believing the 90s were more free speech and ignoring the context of that era is the toxic, history-ignoring attitude. That's not to say we don't have problems currently, but it is better than it was in the 90s, overall.