I get the point this is trying to make, but please, lets not reminisce about 50’s America with rose tinted glasses as if that’s a time we want to go back to… Other things that were normal were segregation, forced sterilisation of queer and disabled folks, general sexism and lack of opportunity for women, and so on and so on…
Instead we should be aiming for a world we haven’t had yet (in modernity) where what is good and “normal” applies to everyone…
It’s also important to note that while middle class white people might have had an existence like the image states, it was only possible by pushing the failures of capitalism onto minorities, mostly Black people.
Yeah, I’d actually written pretty much exactly that but then edited to be a bit more broad, but yeah - it was still capitalism, and capitalism always makes some people comfortable at the expense of others.
I’m fine where I am thanks. You not wanting to be confronted with the fact that the thing that was “stolen” from you was always coming at the expense of people more marginalised, doesn’t change that…
Pretending that all peoples who weren’t white were marginalized is a fallacy, but it seems the chip on your shoulder won’t allow you to accept a statement that does nothing to romanticize a period but rather calls into sharp relief the very real way a generation used capitalism as a weapon to foment their own success.
Except white people can’t afford that anymore either. No one can. Not everything is about racism. Sometimes it’s classism. But no, everything must be white vs them. Get off your high horse.
I get the point this is trying to make, but please, lets not reminisce about 50’s America with rose tinted glasses as if that’s a time we want to go back to… Other things that were normal were segregation, forced sterilisation of queer and disabled folks, general sexism and lack of opportunity for women, and so on and so on…
Instead we should be aiming for a world we haven’t had yet (in modernity) where what is good and “normal” applies to everyone…
It’s also important to note that while middle class white people might have had an existence like the image states, it was only possible by pushing the failures of capitalism onto minorities, mostly Black people.
Yeah, I’d actually written pretty much exactly that but then edited to be a bit more broad, but yeah - it was still capitalism, and capitalism always makes some people comfortable at the expense of others.
Rich people: Why are we discriminating? If we shit on white people too, we can be even richer.
The search for infinite growth and power will always end up in self cannibalisation, you’re only in the “in group” until you’re not anymore… ¯\(ツ)/¯
That’s not what’s happening here and it sounds like you need to take a step back and reread the image.
I’m fine where I am thanks. You not wanting to be confronted with the fact that the thing that was “stolen” from you was always coming at the expense of people more marginalised, doesn’t change that…
Pretending that all peoples who weren’t white were marginalized is a fallacy, but it seems the chip on your shoulder won’t allow you to accept a statement that does nothing to romanticize a period but rather calls into sharp relief the very real way a generation used capitalism as a weapon to foment their own success.
Except white people can’t afford that anymore either. No one can. Not everything is about racism. Sometimes it’s classism. But no, everything must be white vs them. Get off your high horse.