
Originally Posted by
plague
I can’t vouch for if it was better or worse back in the good old days but with everyone having a camera these days busting your local ranting racist on the train is easier than ever.
(and god bless social media for it, call the ****ers out i say) but whether there’s ‘more’ or ‘less’ tolerance these days is not my hill to die on.
As for living in the ‘50/60/70’s
- 1962 Aboriginal people got to vote.
- 1984 it stopped being illegal for blokes to get it on together (the SA cops were still throwing gays in the river back in the early ‘70’s).
Again, now ain’t perfect, but it’s better for a hell of a lot of peeps out there.