[extropy-chat] can't second guess history

[Ned Late]

George F. Will pointed out in 1994 that the Clintons were "condemning an entire decade", the 1980s, for being a decade of greed. And it was a decade of greed, yet so were the '70s-- which whelped the '80s. The '90s was also a decade of greed, flollowing as it did both the '70s & '80s.
The '50s was the decade when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white patron and go sit in one of the back seats like a good little negress. The '50s was the decade when Chuck Berry almost single handedly invented Rock & Roll; the decade when the Beatniks challenged the status quo.


> but widespread housing discrimination, so-called "miscegenation" laws
> (in some states), lynchings, outright discrimination against gay
> people (just about everywhere), unequal rights where women were
> concerned, prayers led by teachers in some public schools, de jure
> segregation in the Southern states, unequal access to law schools and
> medical schools (and the like), hardly any diversity in politics,
> movies, television, books (other than the WASP model), illegal
> abortions (out of necessity) - coupled with no really effective birth
> control, no real undertanding, concern or protection against corporal
> child abuse and sexual child abuse, no protection for women against
> sexual harrassment in the workplace, the McCarthy witch hunts ...
> will this do for a start? Of course, not every family was
> "repressed" (especially if they conformed and/or were of the "innie"
> variety), but the repressions - and many nightmares - were cruelly
> real for many, many people. 



		
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