"Wasn't a time consumed by 'scorched earth angry politics.'" Yeah, 1992 was the same Rodney King riots. So many white people love to believe everything was great and fine and dandy during that time and I would really like to scorch that narrative from the fucking earth.https://twitter.com/EW/status/988766097464872961 …
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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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Remember when Bush was Vice President during the AIDS crisis and did nothing?
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