• floo@retrolemmy.com
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    8 days ago

    Yeah, I’m glad that people are upset about it, but this isn’t a new thing for the United States. We’ve been down this road before.

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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      8 days ago

      Still within living memory.

      George Takei was 4 when he and his family were put in a Japanese internment camp. Ruby Bridges, the first black student to attend a white-only school during desegregation, is only 70, currently lives in New Orleans, and is a prominent civil rights activist in the area.

      The US doing anything for the betterment of society was a blip in its overall history, and done in spite of this country and its values, not because of them.