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[–] huf@hexbear.net 96 points 6 months ago (2 children)

great takes in that thread:

This actually isn’t right. The main thing that pushed the country to the right and led to Nixon was the race riots of the 60s. Read Omar wasows research.

oh really, the race riots, eh? why were there race riots?

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 70 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The fact that white people hated the civil rights movement so much they actually rioted (often harnessing that anger on school busing programs) has been completely memory holed and we all just sorta pretend like it never happened. Even as someone who likes to read history, I don’t really know all that much about it. But I assume it never gets brought up in history class or society at large because it spoils the narrative of “MLK Jr gave a speech, we passed a law, and now we have total equality and racism had been defeated”.

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 51 points 6 months ago

A lot of people come to the realization that society fought MLK, watched him die and then said "oh! oh! I agreed with him the whole time"

But it's worse. What they really said was "He agreed with me the whole time"

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yup. After MLK ended racism, everyone forgets about how the white people who formed lunch mobs and bombed people are still walking around, probably shopping for tomatoes next to you.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

how the white people who formed lunch mobs

They still do on Sundays.

spoilerSorry if this is inappropriate I just wanted to make fun of rude white people after church

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

A very Douglas Adams-sounding concept, the Lunch Mob

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago

Race riots?

More like, racist riots. kelly