• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    If you live during a time when things get better that, by definition, means you also lived during a time when things used to be worse.

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      3 hours ago

      exactly and that is the point is things used to be better. again the change was in the 80’s but they really did not degrade enough as started being felt more in the new millenium.

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        26 minutes ago

        Incarceration rates started skyrocketing in the 70s and only got worse from there. Did you forget about the war on drugs and who the primary victims were?

        The meme is that boomers had it easy. Black boomers objectively didn’t. Black people have never had it easy in this country.