“Black People Were Just Less Smart Back Then” -Grandma

My grandfather started going on a anti-trump, anti-fascism rant and I saw him kind of pause to check if I was that trump cultist lol. It was very heartening

My other grandfather was a vocal racist, sexist, homophobe who died of covid because he believed Trump's lies. Rot in pieces

Trump literally killed off hundreds of thousands of bigots with his lies about covid. That was silver lining of his term

Are we counting the people that ignored reality as the group behind?

I don't understand what the image is depicting exactly, there's one black person in the picture and she's sitting there while that guy is about to drip something on the head of the woman next to her?

Is it a picture of white people bullying a group for having a black friend?

Unfortunately some folks identified with both.

Grandfather was a MoC, he still forbade my mom from dating black men because he thought they were all thugs.

This is the "great america" they are always referencing.

Have you all ever seen the Monsoon Motor Lodge acid attack?

Facebook says this image is fine by them when Nazis post it, of course.

I'd like to know more about this Hot Donut Department

I regularly think about how many of our sweet loving grandmothers were the ones we see in the pictures hurling slurs at the tops of their lungs. How many grandfathers strung up the rope for the lynch mob.

These things all "ended" less than a century ago.

Well my grandparents wouldn't have been allowed in that shop, given there was an embargo in the us against people like my grandparents until 1943, though its not at all why my grandfather hated America and Americans for most of his life.

My mother used to refer to Indian owned motels as "Paki palace", used to tell me not to run away with a black man like the neighbour who was in a biracial relationship did, and I distinctly remember a family friend yelling "run you N word run" when an African guy was running an Olympic race on TV.

So that was all really fun.

Were any of these kids found and interviewed later on in life?

HOT DONUT DEPARTMENT

For a second I thought they had their own police outpost.

I see 3 groups in this picture.

• pro equity activists (front/center)
• anti equity reactionaries (front/left)
• 'centrists' (back/right)

Pro-equity is the only moderate position.

False dichotomy is false. People are complicated.

If your moral certitude is so easily triggered that this purity test gets a "hell yeah." Then can you please pause to reflect?

My parents were on both sides of this. I am a very long distance from where they were. They taught me one thing, thought another.

Which does that make them?

I truly believe the thought exercise required by this meme is the actual basis for the backlash against CRT.

Because humans only produce like minded offspring, incapable of forming their own thoughts opinions and values. There has never been political tension between generations over schema shifts that also don't happen. E: big heckin /s in case that wasn't obvious

What about the other groups that wouldn't have been with either side of this? There's more than two groups of people.