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MyownLunasea t1_jbox57c wrote

Reply to comment by ToxicBanana69 in New York landlord becomes legal guardian of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor: 'She had no one else' by Imguran

I feel the same way. Almost like something this horrific had to be way back - like it sort of excuses them in an odd way or something because we couldn't be that shitty now - I know it is incorrect and that horrible still goes on- not sure why my brain wants to interpret that way.

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dreamsofaninsomniac t1_jbpdi0r wrote

Making historical photos black and white when color photography was available can be used as a propaganda tool for that reason. It's why you see a lot of Civil Rights photos in the '60s in black and white when color photography was available.

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monsterscallinghome t1_jbqqfbs wrote

Time to remind everyone that Ruby Bridges is still alive and only in her mid-60's, and therefore the teens throwing rocks at her are in their mid-70's; that MLK, Anne Frank, Ursula K LeGuin and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year, and King was assassinated mere months after he shifted his organizing focus from race to economic inequality and began working across racial lines to demand things like public housing, universal health care, and universal basic income.

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