The rise in gay people since then reminds me of this diagram:
Are you kidding? … it was the great old days for Straight White Christian Men … they were free to be completely racist aholes, treat women like slaves, have as many children as they wanted and not take care of any of them, have the world at their feet, make a ton of money just for being who they were and they were accountable to no one.
The reason why the past was so great for a small segment of society was that it was so shitty for 99% of rest of the world
I’m a white Christian man, and that sounds awful.
I don’t understand how people can want to live in that world.
They’re terrible people and racist…
It’s easy if you don’t know how shitty the other 90% have it. That’s the thing about privilege. The folks who have it assume that everybody has it like they do (i.e. that privilege isn’t really a thing, everybody has equal opportunity, racism is dead, etc).
I dunno, I grew up with the “there are kids starving in Africa” spiel and other such lectures. For my family, it was more like the idea that “lesser” parts of the world had problems because they were “lesser,” and if anyone is suffering in America it’s because they brought that “lesser” mindset with them from elsewhere.
Different guy here but I get it. That sounds truly heinous. There have plenty of “socially accepted” things that I just cannot get behind because it’s obviously wrong. Like, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that maybe enslaving human beings, even when your society doesn’t fully count them as such, or hitting your wife is bad.
Look what MAGA did, they pushed the narrative that the white man is getting pushed out of society. Even though the United States is mostly White Christians. They just believed what these bitches told them, didn’t bother to look at facts.
That’s the real crime.
I’m guessing you either aren’t American or you aren’t and Evangelical Christian.
Straight White Christian Men
Straight White “Christian” Men*
Straight White Christian Men
Straight White “Christian” Men*
Straight White
–> Christian <–
Men
On the other hand:
- Many of the pro-worker policies from the New Deal are still in place, and my union is strong
- The owner of that factory over there is in the 90% tax bracket, isn’t it great how he’s paying society back for his good fortune?
- Every other major economic power in the world was just absolutely flattened in a war, and our country wasn’t touched
- Because our country was relatively safe during the war, the best and brightest migrated here, and we’re now benefiting from their ideas and inventions
On the other other hand: segregation was still a thing
Yup, the 1950s was only better for white people, but there’s a reason that white people look back on it with fondness.
But, I’d guess that even for black people it was better than the 1930s. When the economy shinks, they’re the first to lose jobs. When it grows they’re the last to get them. In the 1950s things were booming so my guess is that black unemployment was low. Still, for working class white males the 1950s may have been a peak, for most other people things have just been getting better every year since then.
Imagine how good it could be if everyone got some of the things working class whites got in the 1950s: strong unions, good labour protections, high tax rates on the ultra rich, etc.
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Boomer: I miss being young
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GenX: I miss being young
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Millennial: I miss being young
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GenZ / Alpha: I was told young people had more money 20 years ago and I wish I had more money
Millennial here. I don’t miss being young at all. Sure my body is aging, but it doesn’t make up for how much better I’m doing mentally and emotionally. Also I’m grateful every day that I’m personally sort of financially ok, unlike a lot of our generation and the ones after. Helps being childfree though, because having children would be extremely expensive.
Don’t lump us in with boomers. That’s just bad manners.
As a Millenial, I can 100% say that I do not miss being young. Granted, the busted lumbar region and cranky guts aren’t fun, but the familiarity with my own body and the gained cognitive complexity are worth a helluva lot more to me.
I do miss those contexts and how they made me feel, I miss seeing my friends carefree and jovial, and I miss drum and bass and punk gigs. But I was a moron back then, and the shit I did to myself, I wouldn’t wish on anyone else.
No, there is one thing: I miss not needing as much sleep as I do now.
There are a lot of physical things I miss from being young, eyesight, faster recovery from injury and illness, etc. I didn’t have money, I had unmanaged depression, I lacked a lot of self esteem. However, I had more friends(or at least acquaintances), more hope in people, much better physical fitness, and in hindsight a lot of my worries weren’t that serious.
Aging and youth are both mixed bags. But I’ll take being older without a doubt. -A younger millennial
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I’ve never seen a more spot on meme. Though the “can’t get through the day without a shit ton of drugs” one has probably never changed.
Who knows, maybe polio will have a resurgence. It’ll go nicely with the measles surge.
and the usa got a deadly plague death (last one was 2007)
One of the few things becoming great again in america these days.
That’s the modern adult’s coffee addiction. “Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my stimulant” should be getting us to ask why our work hours force so many of us to need get jacked up on caffeine just survive the morning.
“I sent a postcard to my gram gram from the lynching I went to this weekend”
Wine and Valium were a housewife’s best friends back then.
Don’t forget the face massager
“Face” lol
So we’re already back?
Tfw you were born too late to get blown up in Korea
Half of this shit hasn’t even really changed
I mean alot of male conservatives would unironically like these things back. (well maybe except the polio and the drugs I guess?)
I would say the drugs is a class thing…drugs are classy if youre rich, trashy if you’re poor.
I’m not USAian, but still.
This true. Drugs are another tool to oppress people. The more money someone makes, the few drug tests they take.
It’s been well over a decade since I had to take a drug test for a job.
Are you sure about them not wanting polio to return? Anti-vaxxers are calling for it to happen.
No, you can include polio too. They don’t want the autism shots.
the good old time, I miss it very much
I dunno, man… Cocain in soft-drinks and being able to support a family with house and car on a single income?
And it’s not like we’re rid of drug addicts, wife beaters or anything else nowadays…
A tough choice for sure.
My picture from the 50s is mom pregnant with No.5 (me), while dad is not in the photo because he ran off to parts unknown with the neighbor. Good times.
Maybe not the 50s but the 90s, for certain
