"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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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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Even that is white-centro thinking. Imagine being black and hearing that your absurd oppression in the 90s wasn't dangerous to long term poltiical stability. This is the whole fucking problem. We only think about whites within whites.
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And my point is that system is already blown up for black americans, and has been for a long long long long long long time. And will continue to be so long as keep thinking solely in terms of white fragility.
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