TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIf someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the most difficult thing to explain about life today?message-squaremessage-square218fedilinkarrow-up1276arrow-down112
arrow-up1264arrow-down1message-squareIf someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the most difficult thing to explain about life today?TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square218fedilink
minus-squareEmoDuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up78arrow-down3·1 year ago“Yes, they are allowed to be on the same bus as us. No, we don’t call them that anymore”
minus-squarejetsetdorito@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·1 year ago“Bus? No we bulldozed hundreds of neighborhoods to build highways so now everyone has to have a car”
minus-squaregordon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoAnd we had a pretty great black president.
minus-squaresoviettaters@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI knew that would be the obvious joke but it’s not like that was unfathomable in the fifties. Desegregation was obviously where the world was headed and I’m sure everyone was expecting (or dreading) modern racial relations.
“Yes, they are allowed to be on the same bus as us. No, we don’t call them that anymore”
“Bus? No we bulldozed hundreds of neighborhoods to build highways so now everyone has to have a car”
And we had a pretty great black president.
I knew that would be the obvious joke but it’s not like that was unfathomable in the fifties. Desegregation was obviously where the world was headed and I’m sure everyone was expecting (or dreading) modern racial relations.