Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025?

• toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i’m in my early 40s. back when i was a kid - even in the southern US - there was a clear message that racism was on its way out. tons of sitcoms even did special episodes about it! (/s) And because media was so controlled back then (ie you couldn’t just post something to the internet), a lot of people actually blelieved it. i know that i did as a kid who didn’t know any better.

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  • yarr@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is this similar to violent crime? A lot of right wingers bemoan the increasing amount of violence in “blue states and cities”. Except, almost by any way you can measure it, violent crime has been on the decrease for years now. Is racism becoming worse, or are you just becoming more aware of it?

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think it depends where you place the starting point. It’s certainly less racist than the 1800s, or even the 1940s. But if you only measure your own lifetime (so call it starting at the early 1980s), I think it did dip in the late 90s, and stayed in the dip until about 2008. Then it came soaring back to 1980s levels.

      And now it feels like it’s rising, being used as a tool of fascism.

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      • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The only real change was how open those assholes felt they could be. Doubt they increased or declined at all. They just got platformed.

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      • yarr@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Serious question: if someone claimed deaths by smoking are up or down, there’s stats we could rely on to tell if that’s the truth or not. How do we tell the amount of racism in 2025? What statistic or statistics are indicative of racism?

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  • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same here. Grew up deep in the South. Kids got in trouble for racist talk in public school.

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    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i want to say i don’t know what changed, but the only thing that changed is that the government they hate said it’s fine to hate again. stupid isn’t even the word

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• TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nobody’s suggesting it wasn’t. But a lot of us have lived our whole lives with the idea that racism was generally frowned upon by most and that it was naturally dying out. I don’t think many of us could have predicted how readily it would come roaring back, along with god damn nazis, FFS.

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• SouthFresh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes it absolutely was. And while we seemed for a while to have been on a trajectory where it was decreasing steadily, that sure changed quickly.

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