Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:24 PM
d_r (2,859 posts)
There is right and there is wrong
It boggles my mind that people don't see what side of history they are on, but I honestly don't think some of them do. In this picture - I think these people 50 years ago thought they were standing up for good old fashioned family values. I don't think it is as simple as people are just stupid, I think it is cognitive dissonance or something.
But people make me sad sometimes.
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| Author | Time | Post | |
| d_r | Aug 2012 | OP | |
| Booster | Aug 2012 | #1 | |
| rug | Aug 2012 | #2 | |
| malthaussen | Aug 2012 | #3 | |
| freshwest | Aug 2012 | #4 | |
| doohnibor | Aug 2012 | #5 | |
| bluerum | Aug 2012 | #6 | |
| rurallib | Aug 2012 | #7 | |
| Brickbat | Aug 2012 | #8 |
Response to d_r (Original post)
Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:27 PM
Booster (9,878 posts)
1. I remember those days very well. This picture makes me very sad.
Response to d_r (Original post)
Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:33 PM
rug (48,218 posts)
2. Hatred is an acquired behavior.
It's not natural. |
Response to rug (Reply #2)
Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:38 PM
malthaussen (2,298 posts)
3. But it is acquired at a very early age...
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I think it may be one of our first socially-learned behaviors. I knew some really rotten 5-6 year olds back in the Day, and that's no joke.
-- Mal |
Response to d_r (Original post)
Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:50 PM
doohnibor (97 posts)
5. Don't short the effects of stupidity
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Especially when the stupid turns nasty.
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Response to d_r (Original post)
Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:52 PM
bluerum (6,109 posts)
6. Cognition has very little to do with it.
Response to d_r (Original post)
Wed Aug 1, 2012, 10:24 PM
rurallib (31,369 posts)
7. last night our local PBS ran the show about songs of the civil rights movement
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I sat there and cried. I was @10 to 15 those years. I was always so incredibly taken by their courage.
Here we are 50 years later - same shit happening. Not sure if I was crying in honor of their courage or that we as a nation are headed backwards so fast. |
Response to d_r (Original post)
Wed Aug 1, 2012, 10:46 PM
Brickbat (14,556 posts)
8. That photo is ripe for a revisiting. It would be interesting to find some of those people standing
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and see what they're doing now. Kind of like how the media revisited Hazel Massery 40 years on.
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