TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years agoIf someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the most difficult thing to explain about life today?message-squaremessage-square258fedilinkarrow-up1317arrow-down112
arrow-up1305arrow-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 · 2 years agomessage-square258fedilink
minus-squareEmoDucklinkfedilinkarrow-up87arrow-down3·2 years 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-up18arrow-down1·2 years ago“Bus? No we bulldozed hundreds of neighborhoods to build highways so now everyone has to have a car”
minus-squaregordon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 years agoAnd we had a pretty great black president.
minus-squaresoviettaters@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years 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”
Depends where they appeared
And which person from the 1950s
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.