tetris11 comments on New plaque in the White House

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Laughs in literalist:
"There was a point in recent history that a significant portion of the population, with enough sampling from ethnic subgroups, had decent opportunity to eke out a comfortable living. Those days that burn fresh in memory, are seemingly gone."

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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

so there’s a line that’s defines “significant?”

because yeah. 40 years ago houses were affordable. but govs were still fire bombing city blocks in philly because some brown people upset them.

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Really bad, but the difference is the volume and scale. US government oppressing ethnic minorities is a horrible act, but not a new one. US government deliberately oppressing a large fraction of the majority is.

Doesn't make it better or worse, but it is a marked shift

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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

right. thats my point. there isn’t a scale such as a binary, thus it has never been a “good” (as in healthy) nation, in its black and white (again a binary) form.

i’m just trying to push a rhetoric that stops folks from pining for day bygone that were better. they have never been better, just different

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago*

contrasting two tail ends of a continuous spectrum still points to a shift, and the availability to place a wide threshold between them does imply a certain level of robustness when used as a binary classification

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