It only SEEMED fine because every white person had a collective shrug and then went on with their lives, unaffected. Or worse, took it as license to grow more conservative and afeared. Gay americans suffered horrible prejudice. It was the AIDS epidemic. List goes on and on.
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Everyone thinks "now" is so divisive, but it always was. It's just the disenfranchised are gaining more and more traction, power, and influence and so suddenly the divisions feel more real to the shruggers. But they were always real. So so real.
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In 92 it felt like the world was going to hell in a handbasket. AIDS was a full-on pandemic. I remember seeing the quilt in DC. And straight people were terrified at this point too because they realized it was on their doorstop. And they resented "the gays" for "releasing it"
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Weirdly one of of the most transcendent figures in BOTH events? Magic Johnson. What he wanted to do in revitalizing the areas of LA destroyed, along with how he helped re-write the world understanding of AIDS, was incredible. This was capital I-Important stuff.
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Anyway, this just made me think a lot about the horrible early 90's. And the only way it could feel civil to anyone is because both conservative and liberal white people looked each other in the eyes and said "yeah, who cares about anyone else?" ... Let's make those days over.
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TELL EM HULK!
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Isn't that the base of nostalgia?! That everything was better in ye olden days? Not saying that white people DON'T nice-wash the past. But nostalgia is currently a pitfall when it comes to that.
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The Willie Horton ad practically defined ‘scorched earth angry politics’. People have no memories.
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Lee Atwater was a ghoulish walking dog whistle and I saw his early and painful passing from this earth as one of the few true indicators that karma might actually be a thing.
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I remember a popular theory blamed the cops' exoneration on the defense, saying that, by making the jury watch the video over and over, they made them grow tired of it.
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