From the Federalist Society: "We Need To Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives"

[JayJay]

Man do you have a mythical understanding of what life in the 1950s was like.

[TheRedComet]

@JayJay

Man do you have a mythical understanding of what life in the 1950s was like.

I hate to say it like this, but if you were a middle class or above white male it seems like it wasn’t too bad.

But if you were anyone else in any other category, it sucked.

[JayJay]

@TheRedComet

@JayJay

Man do you have a mythical understanding of what life in the 1950s was like.

I hate to say it like this, but if you were a middle class or above white male it seems like it wasn’t too bad.

But if you were anyone else in any other category, it sucked.

I understand.

What feels like “persecution” today is actually the feeling of being left behind in the change curve.

[Orygun]

@TheRedComet

I hate to say it like this, but if you were a middle class or above white male it seems like it wasn’t too bad.

Unless you were Jewish, or even Italian, Irish or Eastern European. But WASPs were killing it.

[SixFoot]

@TommyLucchese

In practice, they’ve spent twenty years trying to build a police state and want the president to be a king as long as he’s Republican.

And now you people have run off with that mantle at retard speeds.

[Liberty323]

@JayJay

@Liberty323

It could happen anywhere these days. I might take my kid to GameStop and some freak could be yelling “it’s ma’am mother ■■■■■■■■ which wouldn’t technically be assault but I don’t want my kids around that. If I said “get away from my kid!” around the wrong person with a phone there would be a new viral video of “transphobic white male verbally assaults transgender woman” or something like that.

Can you point to where the trans person who flipped out at GameStop received popular sympathy?

Or where the employee was fired or canceled?

No I can’t. So you are saying it’s impossible because it didn’t happen that time?

[WuWei]

@TheRedComet

Black men got horrible beatings for having the audacity to talk to a white girl.

Mmmmmm

[Liberty323]

Public opinion changes all the time. “Ma’am” might garner more sympathy today, especially after Rittenhouse and January 6th.

[WuWei]

@Orygun

@TheRedComet

I hate to say it like this, but if you were a middle class or above white male it seems like it wasn’t too bad.

Unless you were Jewish, or even Italian, Irish or Eastern European. But WASPs were killing it.

The majority?

[WuWei]

@JayJay

I understand.

What feels like “persecution” today is actually the feeling of being left behind in the change curve.

While still the majority. In a “democracy”?

[WuWei]

There were former slaves living at that time.

[Jezcoe]

@Liberty323

Public opinion changes all the time. “Ma’am” might garner more sympathy today, especially after Rittenhouse and January 6th.

The video still exists.

Did she gain more sympathy over time? She even wrote a rap about her experience… did that chart up?

One thing we can say is that Game Stop is effectively no longer a company… so maybe they did get cancelled.

[TheRedComet]

It was a serious problem in the south back then.

The societal and legal racism was pretty appalling.

My white grandfather told me some stories that were very depressing. He was raised in a non-racist household. They worked alongside blacks in cotton and soybean fields. Just the way things were. His dad (my great grandfather) and the black patriarch of that family were best friends.

But he always felt that they got the raw end of a very raw deal when it came to the justice system and just how they were treated by society at large. They were looked down upon, treated generally like trash, and no one ever sided with them in the legal system.

They couldn’t even vote.

[WuWei]

Talking to a girl can often get one beat up.

I know how bad it was, I saw it in color. I just disagree with your example.

[SixFoot]

@TheRedComet

No era is perfect. They all have their problems. I happen to find my own era (today) problematic for many reasons.

But I also recognize that eras of the past weren’t really any better. They all had severe moral issues.

It’s not about the era, it’s about the size of the mob being controlled.

Tribes are generally less than 250 people, because that’s about the limit of a person’s (Chieftain) ability to keep and maintain personal relationships with each of them.

In order to have a larger society that doesn’t naturally tear itself apart, there must be something easy enough for everyone to hate, something to “unite” against. The frailest of alliances is all that’s needed.

Sometimes it’s the Protestants, sometimes it’s the Catholics, the Blacks, the Irish, the Japanese, the Germans, the Hispanics, the pedophiles in drag trying to chemically mutilate your children, etc…

Some groups are easier to hate than others.

[WuWei]

Great post.

[Ex-Pat]

Some Like It Hot was the most popular comedy of the 1950s and is considered the greatest comedy of all time by many critics. It’s about… wait for it… men in drag.

[WuWei]

Kind of a bold claim, given that it came out in 1959.

Why were they in drag?

[Ex-Pat]

I don’t remember. I haven’t seen the movie in over a decade. But no, they were not transsexuals. However, the most famous and funniest part of the movie involves an old man not caring that one of them is actually a man after declaring his love for them.

[WuWei]

@Ex-Pat

I don’t remember. I haven’t seen the movie in over a decade. But no, they were not transsexuals. However, the most famous and funniest part of the movie involves an old man not caring that one of them is actually a man after declaring his love for them.

To get away from the mob and chase girls.

Not exactly the same thing, now is it.