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I don't see it. The 1930s weren't that long ago, there are still people alive who lived through them. If you were talking about ancient Egypt, you might have a
by breezybottom 5mo ago
I don't see it. The 1930s weren't that long ago, there are still people alive who lived through them. If you were talking about ancient Egypt, you might have a point.
- keiferski 5mo agoThe 1930s had radically different opinions on race, gender, religion, and a host of other things as compared to today.
- breezybottom 5mo agoDefine "radical"
- keiferski 5mo agoThe world has entirely different values today than circa 1930. This is...obvious? Read a book or Wikipedia page? I don't know what else to tell you.
- breezybottom 5mo agoThe world doesn't have values, people do. And many of them are the same.
- NooneAtAll3 5mo agoit's usually inappropriate to feed a troll, but I'll just say "olympic gold champion was congratulated by literally Adolf Hitler, but not his own country the Unite States - because he was black"
- watwut 5mo agoYou had your fascists and you had your anti-fascists where antifascists were blamed for what fascists did.
- pixelatedindex 5mo agoAs a brown person in the US, I certainly would have felt a difference between then and now…
- breezybottom 5mo agoThe United States isn't the entire world.
- smogcutter 5mo agoIt is, however, the setting of On the Road.
- achenet 5mo agoI recommend you read the book "Pimp" by Iceberg Slim, about a Black America in the early/mid 20th century. Personally speaking, I found the book very 'awe-inspiring'/it made me go 'wow' a bunch, because I found the author's experience so completely different from my own :)