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> Everything would be ok for the 1950 kid youd drop anywhere Not if the kid was black. Just ask Emmett Till, a kid from Chicago ‘dropped’ into Mississippi on v
by cortesoft 4y ago
> Everything would be ok for the 1950 kid youd drop anywhere
Not if the kid was black. Just ask Emmett Till, a kid from Chicago ‘dropped’ into Mississippi on vacation.
Or if the kid was a woman. You think she would have no problem finding a job in the 1950s?
Or if the kid was a Muslim. Or gay. Or disabled.
Even if you were a straight white male, your mortality rate was a lot higher in the 1950s than today.
- selimthegrim 4y agoMy family actually were Muslims in the US in 1950, and I’m a little irritated at the suggestion of lacking agency.
- cortesoft 4y agoI am not sure where you got the idea that I was saying a Muslim wouldn’t have agency. I am only saying that if a Muslim was dropped in the middle of the country in the 1950s, they would likely encounter difficulties that a white man wouldnt, and that assuming you could just go anywhere in the 1950s and be easily successful is not equally true for everyone.
- selimthegrim 4y agoMuslims can be white too. Muslim isn’t a race.
- cortesoft 4y agoYou are right, I should have said Christian.