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We are talking about “trust” receding in society. The majority didn’t “trust” the minority enough to even allow them to be a part of society. It’s only a diff
by scarface74 3y ago
We are talking about “trust” receding in society. The majority didn’t “trust” the minority enough to even allow them to be a part of society. It’s only a different issue to you because your parents can wax poetically about the “good old days”
- yCombLinks 3y agoAre you implying trying to increase societal trust would increase racism? You aren't making an obvious point. Trust and racism are inverses?
- scarface74 3y agoI’m not implying anything. I’m stating very explicitly that people who say trust is lower now than some mythical time in the past is the same time period when the US had laws explicitly targeting “others” because they didn’t trust Black people (Jim Crow laws, laws against miscegenation, redlining), Japanese (internment camps), etc. The only people who long for “the good old days” when “trust” was high are those who benefited themselves or whose parents benefited from systematic and de jure discrimination. The good old days when you could live off of one income came about because Europe was recovering from a war and we dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan.