I enjoy reaction videos (I know) and a thing that always throws me is seeing comments on All in the Family reactions asserting that the show WASNT controversial. Usually by people who were kids at the time.
Nostalgia, childhood nostalgia, is always a lie.
The 92 LA riots, the Crown Heights Riots, the lynching of Yusef Hawkins (technically 89 but whatever)... the dude could just say "I was a 7 year old in 94 and don't remember shit."
Lol... I
've been a Marxist since I was 12, on picket lines with my father...
Republicans use the word like it means Satan worshipers...
Their uneducated base is clueless, so they do that because they made the base think that's what we are...
James Lindsay, who wrote that Xeet quoted above, is not uneducated. He's an asshole and an idiot. But he has a PhD in Math. A lot of his Xitter persona involves providing bullshit for the MAGA rubes, however.
I can remember growing up in the 90s and living in a predominantly white neighborhood, and EVERY Halloween at 6 people I knew were dressed in Blackface.
Translation of that snippet: "Back in the good ole' days people who were different, marginalized or oppressed had no political power, no access to political power, no economic standing and no way to express their point of view or culture via MSM. They were silenced".
1992 LA riots, 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff, 1993 Branch Davidians near Waco Texas, 1993 World Trade Center bombing, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, 1998 truck bombing at US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, 1999 Columbine High School massacre. Sure the 90s we easy going
Wow. The ignorance is staggering. I bet he grew up in a small town of like 95% white people. He probably never had a meaningful friendship with any black boys/men. I bet he never saw the NYPD beat the shit out of young black teenager on train for no damn reason.
Port Saint Lucie High School. I believe it was ~'94/'95. But we went under lockdown for hours until they got the nazis to leave. Then I found out a friend of a friend was dating one of them and he showed up to a party I was at and busted my friend's lip because my friend was gay. It was a horrible
PSL is a horrible town. It's a bedroom community that's been flooded with restaurants and small stores. There's no jobs there that's why I don't live there anymore.
There actually used to be an 878 number you could call to hear the latest news from the local triple K chapter. PSL was a dark town and nobody talked about it.
A school surrounded by 'a group of armed nazis' isn't something that 'nobody talked about'. This was just a few years after Rodney King and the L.A. riots. It would have been international news.
I don't need you to believe me. In fact, I don't care if anyone believes me. I know what my lived experience was. Nobody cared about Port Saint Lucie. The fact that you have to believe that it would have become international is wild to me because the local community had no issue with it.
That's like saying it would have made international news that the Big Chicken in Marietta, GA was the place where triple K was reborn because people cared all of a sudden. I bet you didn't know that too. The news about Rodney King spread because it was easily sensationalized. Cops were beating
I'll try to find something on tcpalm but we're talking about something that happened in what back then was an unknown town and this was 20 years ago. In fact I didn't even see it on the local news later in the day. Everything I heard was from teachers.
James Lindsay needs to try to learn what a communist is, and then he needs to marry that thought with an appropriate action, if he can...I don't think so...
This captures the privileged backlash we’ve been living through. The generic white
median are sick of being made aware of other people’s lives and challenges. Things WERE so much easier for them when culture was tailored to them entirely.
Yet another example of "I was alive then and *I* didn't see anything going on... Sure, I was also 5 at the time, but I don't see how THAT matters at all"
All the kids I knew in high school, in the 90s, that screamed the N word any time they seen a black kid all grew up to be Republican voters who love Trump.
Holy fuck is this the "white splainingist " load of horsehit ive ever heard...as a white man i cant help but say that white folks deserve everything we have coming to us....INBRED CHUCKLEFUCKS ARE THE BRANCH OF THE WHITE FAMILY TREE WE NEED TO EXCISE IMMEDIATELY.
No not really. The United States has never been like that. What was different in the 1990s was we had a booming economy. Wages were higher and prices were lower. And the terrible decisions of Reagan and Clinton had not yet caught up with us.
Marxists, he says.
So it's Marxists currently rounding up brown people for the concentration camps?
It's Marxists proposing "remigration" of all people not of European descent?
Never heard anyone call Stephen Miller a Marxist before...
When Madonna did "Like A Prayer," wyt America rioted. When Elen DeGeneres kissed a woman on TV, conservatives lost their mind. Trump did a full-page ad to call for the death penalty for the CP5. Ppl tried to bully me cause I'm biracial (mom wyt/ dad blk). I learned how 2 fight real good. I'm 51 now.
The word “woke” literally comes from police abuse of the black community. Smart phones and social media just enabled the ability to prove it in real time.
Sorry, but I have to agree. In the 60's everyone got along too.
Women stayed at home and might even (if hubby agreed) be allowed to work. Blacks were working on the silly civil rights thing, lgbtq+ folks were too afraid to come out. While we white males were all having a grand time.
And a series of terrorist attacks (Unabomber, OKC, Atlanta Olympics, etc). Partisan conflict exploding, w/1st presidential impeachment in 130 years. Divisive debates over the effects of video games and rap music on kids. People flipping out over an episode of Roseanne featuring two women kissing.
James Byrd Jr. would also like a word, if he hadn't been tortured to death by 3 white supremacists who tied him to the back of a pickup & dragged him to death. Texas. 1998.
Waco, Matthew Sheppard, Oklahoma City bombing, plethora of anti-abortion violence, the OJ Simpson trial, Unabomber, the emergence of numerous school shootings, skinhead culture... I came of age in the '90s. Lots of great times. No doubt. But to pretend there wasn't turbulence is severely misguided.✌️
The 1990s were when the political right and the press began popularizing the term "political correctness" to demonize strides in racial equality. Not that there weren't some legitimate critiques to be made here and there, but P.C. was portrayed as an oppressive force to constrain white people.
Matthew Shepard -1998
James Byrd -1998
Brian Mock -1992
Hattie mae cohens -1992
Brandon Teena -1993
Evelyn Hernandez-1992
Anita Smith -1992
Billy Jack Gaither -1993
Charles Howard -1991
Richard Shoop -1993
Sandra Whitehead -1997
Carlos Deluna -1993
Michael Donald -1993
As a 90s kid, I want to believe that this is all true, but I know better. Racism and hatred has always been a problem. The internet put a spotlight on it, and then MAGA made it mainstream and normal in the US.
Because police didn’t violently put down college protests before now or even before MAGA was elected?
Sure this is worse but pretending there was a magical before time when police didn’t shoot dead student protestors is also a mistake and one of the reasons we have ended up here.
Yeah wasn't Desert Storm going on and the Tylenol poisonings and stuff? These kids gotta start being smacked around with some history books since they refuse to listen to or read the damn things. These ahistoric takes are infuriating.
Desert storm was early 90s but you also had cruise missile strikes in various countries and the Yugoslavian civil wars and the horrors that went along with that and all the factors leading up to Sept 11.
Any Xer claiming there weren’t issues is lying or really wasn’t paying attention.
The Alphabet Generations are the Dumbest Young Bastard Idiots I have ever seen and if they were the power that was around in the 60s, the 18 years olds would have never gotten the vote.
This Lindsay idiot ignores the deep racial hate and division of the American caste system that has been a cancer since 1619, ONLY improved measurably since the Civil Rights Movement (when I was born in 1963), and now MAGA want to erase
Agree…. Worst in the 80’s And even worse in 70’s….. he’ll 60’s and 59’s sucked.
The issue is I believed it was bad but our social structure was improving each decade. With MAGA it proved me wrong! As an old Scot-Irish male I am so sad over this fact.
Ahh yes, the glorious 90s, when black men were being thrown in prisons by the thousands and given draconian mandatory minimum sentences for crack while white cocaine dealers didn’t have to deal with 100:1 ratio in sentencing. Good times if you were a white supremacist.
It was a thing that even Harris knew about, due to "answers" that were pitched by conservatives to black communities. She told of later seeing that it was inhumane. Drugs follow a craving for radical escape. Better to sus out what needs to be escaped!
Even the Black House Caucus backed this bill, which oddly enough was authored by Biden. And as we know, Biden and Obama brought those ratios down and made them retroactive in the Fair Sentence Act
There was so much getting along that they gave us Hispanics cute little slurs and constantly reminded us that we were in America and only spoke English.
Back in the day, when things were great... is a campaign slogan that is sinking in. This is kind of like the notion that Nixon deserved to be honored as an elder statesman. what can one do? Hopefully the younger generations are serious about being global citizens.
Yes just like segregation ended and civil rights began in the sixties but the deed to my house built in 1978 specifically states it can’t be sold to people of color.
The city I grew up in the midwest (late 80s/ early 90s) redlined black people from the area I grew up in until the early 2000s. This came straight out this persons ass.
This tool obviously wasn’t dating outside his race, watching jungle fever, or cognizant enough to be considered bacteria if this is his impression of the 90’s.
Stupid. Plain stupid.
Stunningly inept for one of these folks who claims to do "their own research" funny how nome of these independent researchers seem to have no idea how the fuck Google works. Mind boggling really🇨🇦🤣
I didn't hear any complaints from minorities because their voices were not present in our media ecosystem in the 90's. And I took my ignorance as a sign that things were just peachy for minorities.
Good Lord, over here in the UK we started the decade with the Poll Tax riots in March 1990, and followed up with the Strangeways prison riots the next month. The year after the Meadow Well riots kicked off, described as some of the worst ever seen in the UK.
I was there. NOBODY got along! Protests, die ins, watching your chosen family die horrific deaths as the government and churches laughed! Yea it was sooo much better then.
Exactly. Stop glorifying the ‘90s. Every friend I had in NYC was assaulted. Philadelphia was bombing neighborhoods in ‘85. The CIA was flooding the streets with crack. There were constant gang drive-bys. L.A. had about 5x the murders of today, and burned to the ground over police brutality.
There seems to be a generational skip in historical awareness. Very sad. And it didn’t start in the ‘90s as youngsters have singled out. I lived through the 60’s protests onward. Each decade had standout protests and riots of dissent.
And the “stuff”? Yeah, people were offended by a lot of it, but it was conservatives. And they continue to be offended by literally anything to this day.
Schools in the 90’s had to teach that Rosa Parks was just so tired and there were no more seats. The fact is that the act of civil disobedience was planned because enough was enough. However, “enlightened” white suburbs could not handle a black woman stepping out of line even then.
"In the 90s, I lived in a monocultural community where I never had to see or recognize racial tension, and no one thought they should educate me otherwise."
This is the same guy who started the "alternative" definition of critical race theory, and bragged about using that to demonize everything racial in order to get stupid people in board with persecuting and eliminating all history that proved white people were monsters
I was at school in the 90's in west Scotland. My parents are pretty atheist and weren't the sort of people to fake Catholicism for the slightly better academic results, so I went to the Protestant school.
One of my craft teachers was probably a Marxist however, so perhaps my memory is suspect.
*Pauses 'Black Day in July by Gordon Lightfoot*
I...Doubt that the 90's or earlier were the Arcadian Wonder that they claim...I know it was shit here in Sweden and we didn't get riots over it so I can't imagine it was much better in the US.
Going to have to disagree. We both lived through it and if you think society was better you probably don't remember much of it. I remember the hate in the UK, hate of people not like us.
If you or anyone thinks er must feel everything that goes on in the world at all times that’s bullshit. Locally people had good lives. The riots in LA were something we all watched in the projects in awe,
black, white, latino, our problems then were nothing like now.
No mate, you were just young and now you're not. Trust me, for people on the margins it's slightly better now. If you'd like examples just mention a group you think it hasn't got better for and I'll happily explain.
I was a kid I knew nothing about what was going on in the UK in the 90s. Personally I remember the great times I had with great friends, 90s hip hop, growing up in the projects, and more. To say that I somehow must put aside that time in in the projects, feeling close to all races and people is bs.
I had great times with great friends too but to say my youth was a better time for everyone than today is to misremember a lot of the 90s. You were in the projects, you never saw any social issues?
Also Rodney King was LA and Ken Saro-Wiwa was Nigeria.
Music was activism it wasn’t like it is now where everyone expects you to feel all things going on in the world constantly 24/7. LA might as well have been mars back then.
OK, so in your small corner of your youth you feel things were better for you. Of course, so do I! I was young and fucking gorgeous! 🙂🙂🙂 But I realise that for people who were in less privileged positions it wasn't, and I know from speaking with similar people now it's better.
Of course we had social issues, but it sure doesn’t feel like now where we have nazis in office. I would have no idea about anything outside my community and state at that time so Nigeria wouldn’t have register for us, like at all.
The US literally went from the guy who negotiated with Iran to keep US hostages in captivity to the guy who conducted those negotiations for him. You're remembering Clinton but we had Obama.
The past was as horrible as the present, we just didn't know as much at the time.
Every single time these people attempt to gaslight, then show their true nature. Most people that I know have lived in constant fear, stress and disillusion. We persevere because the trade off is failure.
I will admit I often didn’t know someone’s political beliefs in the 90s, but I could smell their racism a block away.As soon as “welfare” was mentioned I knew.I am the direct descendant of enslavers maybe I am more sensitive.Thank you Mom & Dad for telling me the truth & moving us out of the South.
The 90s. A decade of "don't ask, don't tell," gay people living in the closet, women getting routinely harassed in the open at work with zero recourse, and people of color getting huge jail sentences for crack cocaine while white folks got probation for powder.
The good old days. 🙄
I recall it was a congressmans son being infected that sparked the sudden republican concern for AIDs.
Same as Nancy being against stem cell research until Ronnie got knocked down with alzheimers.
They do not care about anything until it affects them
Much like when the opioid epidemic hit predominantly white neighborhoods, addiction is now being treated as an illness, with resources being thrown at treatment instead of jail.
Exactly. It infuriates me. Congress passed a law to strengthen crack and cocaine laws. It only raised the crack penalties. I really thought it would be both. I Know that cocaine addiction was at an all-time high.
The 90s where like 75% of sitcom plots were just re-skinned childhood fables about treating people right and not being racist / sexist / homophobic. OP was probably in elementary school and was seeing the early impact of this. Sadly the internet erased whatever progress was made.
It is a catch-all term they use for the opposition. Marxists, communists, radicals, socialists. I'm sure most don't even know what the words mean. They just like to use them as a pejorative.
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Nostalgia, childhood nostalgia, is always a lie.
've been a Marxist since I was 12, on picket lines with my father...
Republicans use the word like it means Satan worshipers...
Their uneducated base is clueless, so they do that because they made the base think that's what we are...
- Rodney King
"Therefore, everyone got along"
These poor children of summer.
median are sick of being made aware of other people’s lives and challenges. Things WERE so much easier for them when culture was tailored to them entirely.
Genx childhood lead exposure?
I graduated HS in 93. That guy is full of shit.
Marxists, he says.
So it's Marxists currently rounding up brown people for the concentration camps?
It's Marxists proposing "remigration" of all people not of European descent?
Never heard anyone call Stephen Miller a Marxist before...
It’s another buzzword
BS Statement too.
Went to a LA schools prior to the riots.
Had black, white, asian gangs. Gringos were the minority.
Went thru lockdowns, gun initiation week, helicopters, search lights & RAVEs.
Give me a break
Calvin
Women stayed at home and might even (if hubby agreed) be allowed to work. Blacks were working on the silly civil rights thing, lgbtq+ folks were too afraid to come out. While we white males were all having a grand time.
Good times. 🙄
Having said that it was still a very ugly time in history. Rodney King, Ken Saro-Wiwa, the sexism, racism, homophobia, all more tolerated than now.
Where as now leaders want to pretend it doesn’t exist as they supercharge white privilege
And 50% of voters agree with them
Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he’s a hero
- Black people in the 90s
The neo-Nazi skinheads in the metro DC area brawling with the straight-edge punks.
It is.
Signed,
Gen X
Matthew Shepard -1998
James Byrd -1998
Brian Mock -1992
Hattie mae cohens -1992
Brandon Teena -1993
Evelyn Hernandez-1992
Anita Smith -1992
Billy Jack Gaither -1993
Charles Howard -1991
Richard Shoop -1993
Sandra Whitehead -1997
Carlos Deluna -1993
Michael Donald -1993
Sure this is worse but pretending there was a magical before time when police didn’t shoot dead student protestors is also a mistake and one of the reasons we have ended up here.
Any Xer claiming there weren’t issues is lying or really wasn’t paying attention.
Textbook whitewashing!
Next time let’s all vote for democrats!
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapping-civil-unrest-in-the-united-states-2000-2020/
The issue is I believed it was bad but our social structure was improving each decade. With MAGA it proved me wrong! As an old Scot-Irish male I am so sad over this fact.
The Rwandan genocide...
If he had *any* intellectual curiosity, he could have found this study, from 1996, in about two minutes.
https://www.usccr.gov/files/historical/1996/96-004.pdf
It just took bullsh1t longer to spread by land line.
Zero idea about the OKC bombing … we just passed the 30 year mark.
Just … wow.
It aired in 1996. They didn't make it up from nothing!
Half the joke was Apu was one of the most stand up people in Springfield and all these idiots wanted him deported.
Stupid. Plain stupid.
I didn't hear any complaints from minorities because their voices were not present in our media ecosystem in the 90's. And I took my ignorance as a sign that things were just peachy for minorities.
There. I fixed it for him.
Halcyon days.
https://youtu.be/iZyqwOOmETI
You would reach more people, when you add a good description into the Alt-text field.
That is pretty easy, especially, when your image just contain text.
This way, you support visually impaired people and everyone else, who rely on a good filled Alt-text.
#accessibility
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_George_Floyd_protests_outside_the_United_States
One of my craft teachers was probably a Marxist however, so perhaps my memory is suspect.
I...Doubt that the 90's or earlier were the Arcadian Wonder that they claim...I know it was shit here in Sweden and we didn't get riots over it so I can't imagine it was much better in the US.
all stripes regard the 90s as peak civilization.
black, white, latino, our problems then were nothing like now.
Also Rodney King was LA and Ken Saro-Wiwa was Nigeria.
The past was as horrible as the present, we just didn't know as much at the time.
I think I heard that in a chant by the marchers on the bridge in Selma
The good old days. 🙄
Same as Nancy being against stem cell research until Ronnie got knocked down with alzheimers.
They do not care about anything until it affects them