Sweetpeaa
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- Jun 10, 2019
Think about this. This was one year before the MSN started the race baiting epidemic. There was all but zero mention of excessive racism in 2011. If anything whites in the USA were seen as having overcome their prejudice by electing Obama a few years before.
There was no real conversation around trangender's, the topic was non existent. Gay's were mentioned but they didn't seem to be throwing a pity party for themselves and demanding special treatment. On the other side of things politically the anti abortion movement seemed to be fairly quiet and conservative people just seemed more reasonable.
Yes the recession effects were there affecting most of the world some way or another, but if you were firmly entrenched in the middle class it didn't impact you as much. You see much more inequality these days than back then. There wasn't tent cities engulfing parts of cities and towns in 2011. There were poor areas but not.. that.
In terms of technology and social media we had just enough of it back then not to drive us insane. Wifi and smartphones were around of course but not everyone had a smartphone and the use of the internet (via smartphone) excessively was not as common. Making a post on your facebook for example using a smartphone was still a novelty back then. Speaking of facebook, it was still a site for young people at that time. Older adults were there but in small numbers. People were more likely to discuss what they did last night while totally drunk off their ass than to discuss politics.
I think that was honestly the last year where things were well... normal?
There was no real conversation around trangender's, the topic was non existent. Gay's were mentioned but they didn't seem to be throwing a pity party for themselves and demanding special treatment. On the other side of things politically the anti abortion movement seemed to be fairly quiet and conservative people just seemed more reasonable.
Yes the recession effects were there affecting most of the world some way or another, but if you were firmly entrenched in the middle class it didn't impact you as much. You see much more inequality these days than back then. There wasn't tent cities engulfing parts of cities and towns in 2011. There were poor areas but not.. that.
In terms of technology and social media we had just enough of it back then not to drive us insane. Wifi and smartphones were around of course but not everyone had a smartphone and the use of the internet (via smartphone) excessively was not as common. Making a post on your facebook for example using a smartphone was still a novelty back then. Speaking of facebook, it was still a site for young people at that time. Older adults were there but in small numbers. People were more likely to discuss what they did last night while totally drunk off their ass than to discuss politics.
I think that was honestly the last year where things were well... normal?