Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025?
TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 3 months agoNobody’s suggesting it wasn’t. But a lot of us have lived our whole lives with the idea that racism was generally frowned upon by most and that it was naturally dying out. I don’t think many of us could have predicted how readily it would come roaring back, along with god damn nazis, FFS.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Everybody was faking being decent. The whole time they were monsters writhing in a tortured disgust at minorities finding equality.
TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 5 days ago
A lot of people are struggling with that realisation. My wife has always been extremely close with her 2 sisters and mother, and they all voted trump last year. She’s had a very hard time with it, but she’s kind of at the point now where she’s severed a lot of her connection to them. She’s just being polite to them at this point.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I stopped talking to mine. Good for her.