For me a big part of growing up and getting older was looking back on my childhood through adult eyes and, in hindsight, seeing there was a lot of shit going on back then I wasn't aware of as a kid A lot of people seem to do the exact oppositehttps://twitter.com/polerin/status/1385268797653733381 …
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Like this guy was probably MORE AWARE of racism in the '90s than he is now -- there's no way he could've NEVER HEARD OF the OJ Simpson trial or the LA riots, especially if he's a gangsta rap fan -- and he's just erased it from his memory so he can better enjoy his nostalgia
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I mean he's not special, our culture does this all the time Cf. the people pointing out the wave of '80s nostalgia Stranger Things rode in on cleaned up the actual '80s a lot
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Made it seem like racism wasn't much of a thing, group of white kids with one Black friend is normal (much like the idealized diverse friend groups they made up in the actual '80s)
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The Queen's Gambit, which is ostensibly *about* sexism and a "woman proving herself in a man's world", *wildly* soft-pedaling the overt, explicit sexism of the chess world in the 1960s
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Dealing with men subtly condescending to her or underestimating her Not grandmasters standing up going "I won't play against a woman, it's an insult, it's like playing against a trained chimpanzee"
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