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wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

So it was 30 years ago. I feel like, even though things are far from perfect now, nowadays a comment like this would draw quite a few more critical looks than back then.

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qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It was also 30 years closer to Harriet Tubman in a time when black civil rights were not even as as sanded smooth as they appear now

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- DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Bruh we’ve got a Nazi president
  
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  - qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And he’s fucking everyone instead of just black people. We had a DEI program to rollback again. If someone calls me the n-word, I can post that on Tiktok and have a 50 40% chance of getting them fired.
    
    Shit’s bad but shit’s almost always been bad for black people in America, so you mark the little peaks.
    
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Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
People in 1994 knew exactly how fucked this was.

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- wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sure, but knowing how fucked something is and actually speaking out about it are two very different things.
  
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