The lib I work with insists on contextualizing everything I say in regards to our country's shady recent past with 'it sounds like the government was terrible back then' or 'so this was in the past'; literally like clockwork every time I mention any of the well documented stuff versus the stuff happening today for which we'll probably have better compiled info in another decade or two (not to say we don't have a decent amount of knowledge about it already, just not necessarily compiled as well).
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They weren’t impacted, and anything earlier then 1995 is ancient history to liberals.
It’s the same thing with Nazi memorabilia. It’s all in “good fun” for them.
The lib I work with insists on contextualizing everything I say in regards to our country's shady recent past with 'it sounds like the government was terrible back then' or 'so this was in the past'; literally like clockwork every time I mention any of the well documented stuff versus the stuff happening today for which we'll probably have better compiled info in another decade or two (not to say we don't have a decent amount of knowledge about it already, just not necessarily compiled as well).