"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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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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Humans are biologically built to forget pain. It's why a woman will often talk nostalgically of childbirth one of the most painful things a human can go through
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It definitely ain't that simple.
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IIRC, a lot of water fountains "disappeared" at that point because 'the gays' might have been drinking from them and spreading it.
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Some people need a James Baldwin and Audre Lourde collection dropped on their doorsteps STAT.
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