• ramble81@lemmy.zip
    74·
    17 hours ago

    I dunno. I kinda consider 9/11 to be the shifting point. That’s when racism came roaring back and also the introduction of the Patriot Act. The 2008 crash was just the solidification of the shit show to come.

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      15·
      13 hours ago

      The 2008 crash was also the result of Greenspan and Bush’s 0% interest rate bullshit that prevented savings and ruined the housing market while starting wars to avoid smaller correctional recessions. 9/11 was the excuse, so I kinda caused all this, in a way.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
      371·
      17 hours ago

      The LA race riots and Clintons going on about “super-predators” would like a word with you about racism going away in the 90’s

      • ramble81@lemmy.zip
        16·
        17 hours ago

        Didn’t say that it wasn’t there. Just that it got a lot worse after 9/11 and the following years.

        • SippyCup@feddit.nlEnglish
          16·
          15 hours ago

          9/11 was a pretext for doing what they wanted to do anyway. Kind of like how the Olympics in LA was the pretext they needed to militarize the police there.

          Finding a pretext isn’t hard, but sometimes events outside of your control just kinda hand one to you.

        • dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          6·
          15 hours ago

          I’ve heard that the high tide was end of WW II. Sloping exponentially downwards, with the occasional oil boom or bust.