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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2025
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Are you kidding? .... it was the great old days for Straight White Christian Men ... they were free to be completely racist aholes, treat women like slaves, have as many children as they wanted and not take care of any of them, have the world at their feet, make a ton of money just for being who they were and they were accountable to no one.
The reason why the past was so great for a small segment of society was that it was so shitty for 99% of rest of the world
I'm a white Christian man, and that sounds awful.
I don't understand how people can want to live in that world.
It's easy if you don't know how shitty the other 90% have it. That's the thing about privilege. The folks who have it assume that everybody has it like they do (i.e. that privilege isn't really a thing, everybody has equal opportunity, racism is dead, etc).
Different guy here but I get it. That sounds truly heinous. There have plenty of “socially accepted” things that I just cannot get behind because it’s obviously wrong. Like, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that maybe enslaving human beings, even when your society doesn’t fully count them as such, or hitting your wife is bad.