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> Where are the women talking about how incredibly sexist everyday society was, or the black people talking about open, shameless racism?

Really?

How about today's white self-hatred? I lived in Japan for quite a time, and it is a breath of fresh air not to year people go on and on about how ashamed you should be because god gave you a white skin (and that all social ills of other groups are due to you).

I think that's orthogonal to my point. All I was saying was that many of the answers presented only a majority view of the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and that if you were to ask women and blacks what they thought, you might see some different answers.

Maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough, but I don't think there's anything wrong with pointing out that you're only seeing one side of the story.

> year [sic] people go on and on about how ashamed you should be because god gave you a white skin (and that all social ills of other groups are due to you).

Also, maybe I'm hanging out with the wrong crowd, or don't watch enough CNN, but I have never experienced this in my life.

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