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I am getting rid of my Yugo
zybex:
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--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on November 10, 2024, 04:53:07 pm ---...I would happily go back to a different time like the 1950s when there was a boom happening...
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Sounds great! Well, as long as you were a Straight White Male, Christian, preferably Republican, not drafted for the Korean war, and had just built your fancy new Nuclear Fallout Shelter stocked with the FCDA's recommended seven-day supply of food and water.
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This reminds me of "Starry Messenger" by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Here's a quote:
"Whether or not day-to-day feels this way, civilization has made great social advances over the decades and centuries. Progressive changes in laws, legislation, and attitudes around the world have, in some areas, brought the diversity of race and gender to social levels that approximate Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous line from his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
One last thought experiment bears this truth. Imagine you're offered the opportunity to enter a time machine and go back to any previous moment in human history. Where and when would you choose? The White, cisgender, heterosexual male has his pick of the timeline—this traveler to the past will be welcomed everywhere and everywhen. If that's not you, then you'd better think hard about the time and place you'd like to arrive. Are you female, a person of color, disabled, queer, or any combination of these? When was it better for you? A thousand years ago? Five hundred? A hundred? Fifty years ago? Ten? Five? For me, I'm good with the present. I'd rather not be declined a taxi ride, overlooked for job opportunities, denied a bank loan, or redlined from my choice of housing. With childhood ambitions of being a scientist, I don't want to be someone's servant, nor do I fancy being purchased and owned by another human being who thinks I'm not entirely human."
jmone:
MLK Jr. really nailed it. One of the greatest lines in history.
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This reminds me of "Starry Messenger" by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Here's a quote:
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The White, cisgender, heterosexual male has his pick of the timeline—this traveler to the past will be welcomed everywhere and everywhen.[/i]
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Mmmm, I get his msg but it is not correct. I'd suggest he would risk being slaughtered or enslaved if he appeared in many of the great past civilizations - Myans, Mongol, Caliphates, etc... basically anywhere with a homogenous population would be a big risk. TBH, you would probably still get slaughtered or enslaved under the Romans. Could you even conjugate a verb in Latin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lczHvB3Y9s Brian could not :) !
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