Re: Considering standard of living (was Re: Land of let's only talk about whats wrong with the US)

From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Sat Aug 23 2003 - 14:30:41 MDT

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    randy wrote:

    > I really think that life is better than it was earlier this century

    Better for whom?

    Assuming you meant the 1900s, and if by "earlier" you meant before the 1920s
    ... then how can you possibly say that life was better for women before they
    got the vote?

    How can you say life was better in the 1930s during the depression and
    prohibition years?

    How can you say life was better in the 1940s when we had segregated armed
    forces?

    How can you say life was better in the 1950s when schools, restaurants,
    movie houses, cleaners, and drinking fountains were segregated (mainly in
    the southern states of the USA), and "exclusive" clubs and "exclusive"
    neighborhoods (elsewhere besides the southern states in the USA as well)
    were de rigueur?

    How can you possibly say that life was better for *anyone* before the civil
    rights laws came into being in the 1960s?

    And how can you possibly say that life was better for gays before the 1970s?

    That takes care of all the decades in the 1900s by which you could have
    meant anytime "earlier" in the century.

    I would be curious to know what you meant by "life [being] better" in the
    1900s -and for whom?

    Olga

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