"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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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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