Observe the clean landscape. Observe that these people are grown-ups, not perpetual adolescents. Observe their countenance. Observe the men in suits and ties and serious hats, and the women in dresses and attractive coats and hats. Observe no tee-shirts, blue jeans, or ball caps.
Observe passengers boarding a red Public Service Company bus in the years when bus drivers were courteous enough to make change if requested.
The people in this photograph are not a “diverse” crowd. All of them are white. This is a snapshot of what Christian Civilization once was.
In 2012, 23-year-old Megan Boken was sitting in her car in broad daylight within walking distance of this Cathedral when she was shot and killed by two black thugs. It was a “robbery gone wrong.”
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So…
- Men need to dress serious at all times, and women need to dress attractively in dresses (wouldn’t they then deride those women as “sluts”?)…
- Bus drivers aren’t courteous enough
- Christian Civilization is all white
So your ideal civilization is a racist nation that enforces strict moral and dress codes to turn everyone into carbon copies of you. Got it.
But…what things were lurking beneath the surface?
- Racially motivated violence
- Polio was still a dreaded disease
- Domestic violence could go on and on because it was considered ‘a private family matter’
And to mention one more thing, teen pregnancy rates weren’t any lower than they are today, right?
Cars that, by today’s standards, were death traps. And got five miles to the gallon.
Bus drivers no longer have TIME to fuck with change, due to the demands of time schedules. That’s a capitalism artifact, nothing else.
I suspect these were people getting out of church in the building in the background or there wouldn’t be so many women out and about. They had too much work to do getting dinner ready. And the church is segregated, because you Can’t get close to the Jesus who sat with prostitutes if your maid is sitting behind you.
Some of these men were marched through the blast zone of a nuclear weapon because if you were in the infantry, ‘the A Bomb Is Your Friend.’
I missed the 50s. I do not MISS the 50s.
You are making a lot of generalisations from a single snapshot of one place in one moment and from finding the fashion of the time more appealing than contemporary clothing.
PS:
In 2012, 23-year-old Megan Boken was sitting in her car in broad daylight within walking distance of this Cathedral when she was shot and killed by two black thugs. It was a “robbery gone wrong.”
Pretty sure there have been crimes around and indeed inside churches within “Christian civilisation” long before the Civil Rights movement. For just one infamous example - particularly seeing as you are Catholic, look up the fate of a certain Thomas Becket.
Cameras are a lot cheaper now. Back then, any photo you see would’ve been a lot more staged.
Though disposable cameras technically existed, they only got big in the 80’s. Before that point, cameras were too expensive to take with you unless you deliberately planned to take a photo. After Fujifilm’s QuickSnap, having a camera on your person 24/7 became feasible.
But, it only became commonplace around the 90’s and mid-2000’s with the camera phone, since it made more economical use of limited pocket/purse space. Money and room on your person were the two biggest barriers to having a camera with you all the time, and that only got solved around 2005 -ish.
This means a “random” photo from the 50’s is different from one taken nowadays. Back then, anyone taking a picture would have chosen when and where in advance. The person taking a photo also would’ve been a lot richer.
Change the bus company name and Alan could be talking about Berlin, 1933-1939. Clean and neat! Perfect order enforced! Snappy uniforms!
And you know that's what he's dreaming of.
Observe the landscape lance. Observe that these people are grown-soup, not late adolescent ice perps. Observe the nanu counter. Observe the serious men in suits and ties and hats and the attractive women in dresses and coats and hats. Observe no tee-shirts, jeans or red ball caps.
Observe passengers driving a blue Public Service Company bus in the years when bus boarders were courteous enough to remake change if quested.
The people in this photograph are not a “diverse” crowd. All of them are white. This is a snapshot of what Christian Civilization once was
And what about the numerous non-White Christians, both in the USA and elsewhere? For exemple, there were Christians in India, Egypt and Ethiopia before Germany and Russia.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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