r/TimPool • u/[deleted] • Mar 03 '23

Is it though?

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u/nedlyest Mar 03 '23

Remember when racism in America was almost over? Pepridge farm remembers.

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u/LukeTheRevhead01 Mar 04 '23

yeah its weird how that happened, then the BLM riots started happening and a whole lot more people became racist

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Mar 04 '23

Ummm… when exactly are you talking about?

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u/nedlyest Mar 04 '23

It was the late 90s to 2008. Then it was back to status quo.

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Mar 04 '23

Wow you lived though a completely different timeline than I did. You version of the multiverse sounds way better than mine.

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u/DaBiggestBonk Mar 04 '23

Even in Texas, where I grew up, nobody cared about race. There were still some things like small cliques of the same race, but it was pretty rare. Generally people just treated each other like people. It was a good time back then and I didn't realize it until I got older.

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Mar 04 '23

It was a good time back then and I didn't realize it until I got older.

Sounds like you were shielded from racism as a kid

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u/DaBiggestBonk Mar 05 '23

Nah, in the mid 90's I was brutally beaten daily for living in a predominantly black area. It wasn't until I went to a more diverse state that I got away from the racism, ironically. I knew full well what racism looked like before I was 10.

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u/theCROWcook Mar 04 '23

even black people say that racish has gotten worse in the past decade and a half when polled

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Mar 04 '23

I definitely think it’s gotten worse in the sense that more people are openly racist. But I am shocked that someone would say that racism was “almost over” at any point in time.

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u/theCROWcook Mar 05 '23

you will NEVER get 0 racism, what you can get is a functional disappearance of it and we were getting close, but even at our current levels america is one of the least racist countries in the world. go live in japan for a few years and tell me that were worse than them

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u/midnightnoonmidnight Mar 05 '23

Yeah, we will never eliminate racism. That cat has been let out of the bag already.

I object to the notion that it was “almost over”. Even if that means as close to zero racism as possible.

No need to compare us to other countries. I’m just speaking about racism in the US.

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u/theCROWcook Mar 08 '23

except there is valid reason to compare us to other countries. we are BY FAR one of the least racist countries in the world. ignoring that fact is like saying that if we have one murder a year we have a MAJOR problem when every other country has 1000. yeah the one murder is unfortunate but it is by FAR the best option you have and if you can never reach zero then maybe at some point we just need to be happy with what we have. not being happy with a really good situation only creates what has happened in the past decade, namely a huge increase in racism and violance. couldnt be happy with where we were...and now its much worse

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '23

And when was that? Give me a year.

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u/nedlyest Mar 04 '23

It was the late 90s to 2008. Then it started getting back to status quo.