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To me, it is remarkable how many things we think utterly unthinkable today are actually quite recent, very much in living history. Western Europe had an offici

To me, it is remarkable how many things we think utterly unthinkable today are actually quite recent, very much in living history. Western Europe had an officially fascist government 50 years (+1 day) ago. ~60 years ago Black people in the US were officially discriminated, enshrined in law. Franco-Algerian wars also finished 62 years ago, and saw atrocities worthy of the worst ethnic cleansing of WWII. Balkan wars are still more recent and depressingly deadly too. Alan Turing committed suicide 70 years ago, being pursued after the "crime" of homosexuality. Not to mention some of the stuff going on today... We take so much for granted, the world really is a nicer place than it used to be.

anthk 3y ago
Two fascist goverments, actually. Also, the US one it's worse: apartheid like laws happened under a democracy, not under a banana republic.
wizzwizz4 3y ago
> We take so much for granted, the world really is a nicer place than it used to be. And because we take it for granted, we act as though it'll be around forever. There are still people who don't want these things. If we get complacent, they'll be gone before we know what we've lost.
bencelaszlo 3y ago
There were "human zoos" in Western Europe even after WWII... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo