It’s only been quick if you just started paying attention. This is the end result of decades of work by the GOP.
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Ptsf@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoTo be honest, this shift in our politics has been brutally quick and more federally far reaching than anything that happened while I was growing up. People used to be able to just exist. Camp in parks, sleep on benches, etc. This authoritarianism is… Somewhat new.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
nomy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Legitimately 70 years, their fight started just after FDRs New Deal. The entire modern Republican party exists to work towards this. They want a return to the guided age with themselves as the robber barons and everyone else as a permanently toiling underclass.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I mean tresspass laws designed to prevent newly freed black people from “just existing” go back to 1865.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I was going to say something similar. The “it’s now illegal to [x] while black” memes are because the BIPOC community has known this for a long time now. Standing while black, walking while black, jogging while black, eating while black, listening to music while black, sleeping while black, etc… All of these are things that people have been attacked by cops for doing, for literal generations.
It’s not new; it’s just more visible. And it has finally become so overt that non-BIPOC people have started to feel the same pressure that BIPOC people have dealt with since the country was founded.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
since the country was founded.
that was the biggest mistake ever.
nomy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The second biggest was letting a bunch of traitors go home with their heads held high to establish a mythos about some imagined poo oilof Drfewheritage. Officers should’ve been hanged/shot, lands should’ve been confiscated and given to newly freed peoples, “40 acres and a mule.”
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Sundown towns aren't that far behind us, either.
stoly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not really. People are just less ashamed than they used to be.
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It started in earnest under Regan. It’s just been difficult to see where all those changes would lead until all at once it smacked us in the face.
stringere@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It was slow and incremental. You can’t boil a frog by tossing it in a fryer.
lemonmelon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
True. That would result in frying it.