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so there’s a line that’s defines “significant?”
because yeah. 40 years ago houses were affordable. but govs were still fire bombing city blocks in philly because some brown people upset them.
Really bad, but the difference is the volume and scale. US government oppressing ethnic minorities is a horrible act, but not a new one. US government deliberately oppressing a large fraction of the majority is.
Doesn't make it better or worse, but it is a marked shift
right. thats my point. there isn’t a scale such as a binary, thus it has never been a “good” (as in healthy) nation, in its black and white (again a binary) form.
i’m just trying to push a rhetoric that stops folks from pining for day bygone that were better. they have never been better, just different
contrasting two tail ends of a continuous spectrum still points to a shift, and the availability to place a wide threshold between them does imply a certain level of robustness when used as a binary classification