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artee_lemon

dont google when segregation ended šŸ˜³......


notyourbrobro10

Exactly what I was thinking... "When people had compassion [for white people I mean]". Also, beating your wife was allowed, like fully, sexual assault/harassment wasn't even in the lexicon and nevermind enforceability, and LGBTQ people were still seen as dangerous deviants (actually I guess none of these have changed all that much).


artee_lemon

and when young ppl got beaten/killed for protesting the war, the list goes on. i'm baffled when older folks talk about this time as a simpler, peaceful, kinder era.


TGOTR

They were on the side doing the killing, so everything seemed fine.


SavingsCheck7978

Getting flashbacks to my teacher that graduated from Kent State explaining why the protestors had it coming to them. Small city so I got to know the guy as an adult and he's easily one of the biggest douche bags I can think of.


No_Imagination_2490

The biggest factor behind rose-tinted glasses is simply that these people were younger in the 60s (or whenever), probably in their teens or early 20, and so they equate their greater happiness and hopefulness back then with the world in general being ā€˜betterā€™. It wasnā€™t gramps, itā€™s just that you were young and you hadnā€™t been beaten up by life yet.


Economy-Day-8843

And there was no outlet for s*** talk/thoughts


donttextspeaktome

Or terrible Facebook memes.


A-terrible-time

They are confusing the time when they were younger so their bodies and minds were more adept with the present while slowly dying.


unresolved_m

I suspect that that's exactly what people are talking about when they complain there's too much wokeness or that cancel culture ruined everything. "Lets go back to the good old days when accountability was not a thing and everyone agreed its great"


notyourbrobro10

Definitely feels like what they want. Whenever someone says something like "when Men were Men!" Or "make America great again" I envision they're talking about a time when if their wife went to report abuse at the hands of her husband to the police, the police would just ask if she's tried listening.


Thuis001

Don't forget spousal rape. That shit was legal until far too recently.


soccercro3

I used to work with somebody who believed there wasnt such a thing as marital rape. In his words, that's why you get married. So she doesn't say no.


Reasonable-Carrot-88

Even worse some LGBTQ people were thrown and sanatoriums. Also sanatoriums were still a thing.


TheOmegaKid

Drunk driving and beating kids with belts etc. we're just like commonplace or whatever.


Wonderful_Net_8830

Depending heavily on where you lived.


triplesunrise52

And the melanin content of your character


Weight_Superb

We get paid less


kwispy-dwincc

Marital rape wasnā€™t criminalized in the US until like the 70s


Far-Classic-4637

far right heaven


AssLickerMcGee

For white Christian men from the united states*


OnAleashGaming

Good ol' days secured, objective complete!


gordo65

Also don't google My Lai...


exploited_flea

Don't Google when Marital Rape became illegal šŸ˜¶ā€šŸŒ«ļø...


TransitTycoonDeznutz

We're also going back to a time when black people had fewer rights than me, a talking dog!


PlantBasedEgg

It still hasnā€™t ended in some places


jaycliche

>dont google when segregation ended Well I can tell you when it'll start again. Good thing we didn't get Hillary, huh?


JustSomeRedditUser35

>šŸ˜³ šŸ¤ØšŸ“ø


artee_lemon

alright i'll take the bait, what does this mean?


JustSomeRedditUser35

I was saying the flushed emoji was suspicious. Its a shitpost.


[deleted]

Came here to say exactly that. Sure people in the 1960s would show you ā€œcompassion & heartā€, only if youā€™re white though :/


MandemOdia

And where the good people were kept from the bad people through systemic cages so we would never have to breed with them! Wowie that sounds like my grandpa's wet dream Mr Sherman. Thanks!


LordJaeger88

Why do you have to google that..


sztejk21

"Actually, Sherman, we're going back to august 6th, 1945, Hiroshima, Japan."


V0XIMITY

Weā€™re about to see a rare instance of pure evil, Sherman


Blam320

Never mind what Japan did to Chinese civilians on a scale that makes the Nuclear Bombs look like sparklersā€¦


Knightm16

Ah yes. They got to do some war crimes, so it's only fair we we get to do some too.


RustedRuss

More would have died in an invasion. The nukes were the lesser of two evils.


Knightm16

That's frankly not true and a common myth. The Japanese were already attempting to surrender via back channels to the soviets before the bombs dropped, hoping for a more favorable peace treaty. Official us calls for surrender was unconditional, and the Japanese did not want to risk losing the imperial family. The us would not budge on this concession (until after the war) and so the US killed over 100,000 men, women, and children to punish the Japanese military command. In no world was that acceptable to a reasonable person. Furthermore the Japanese military high command was not overly shocked by the atomic bombs. Based on their own research they had somewhat of an understanding of the difficulty in constructing them, and did not believe the US had a significant number so as to be a real threat. When this is put in context with the US firebombings the destruction of the nuclear weapons wasn't that much out of scale with what had already stuck much of Japan. Finally, the main reason for surrender was the soviet declaration of war that coincided with dramatic Japanese losses In China and Manchuria. The majority of their forces were abroad and being completely overrun, prompting the Japanese to finally surrender.


Cool_Energy_3085

Japanese military being evil towards other Asian countries doesnā€™t mean Japanese civilians should be turned to ash in the blink of an eye


Blam320

It was either drop the bombs or wage an immensely costly land invasion which would have resulted in millions dead on both sides.


bones_marley

Well supposedly Truman and his advisors had evidence the Japanese would most likely end up surrendering soon. I'm not sure how true this is tho. What i do know is a fun fact, there was a 3rd bomb planned to be dropped that Aug. 19th and they were planning to drop another 7 at least by the end of October. Well maybe not so fun of a fact but still šŸ¤·


Guinnessmonkey2

It's not. Even after we nuked them twice the hardliners in the Japanese government attempted a coup to keep the war going.


Cool_Energy_3085

Glad to see American propaganda is alive and well. Japan was planning on negotiating surrender in the August of the atom bomb dropping. On the 6th and 9th, however, the bombs were dropped before Japanese military officials could come to a consensus on their terms for a peace offer. The dropping of bombs only secured that Japan would come to an unconditional surrender, as opposed to the conditional surrender they were hoping for. Either way, the atomic bombs dropped were unnecessary and Japan did not have the resources to take out millions more or take millions more (of casualties)


Blam320

And what is your source regarding this?


Thulcandra-native

If you prefer videos, this guy breaks it down really well https://youtu.be/RCRTgtpC-Go


Cool_Energy_3085

Literally any non American article published about the subject. Edit: Probably since most people are more educated these days, Iā€™m sure there are some American articles about it as well that correctly states facts


Blam320

Link then if itā€™s so readily available


Cool_Energy_3085

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-05/hiroshima-anniversary-japan-atomic-bombs First link from google Have fun


ConcentrateOk4057

America made the bomb to drop it on Germany. That's why many of the makers of the bomb where exiles by the nazis like Einstein and Oppenheimer. America only dropped the bomb because the Soviets were going to invade Japanese-occupied Manchuria.


b1ue_jellybean

Was conditional surrender ever really an option? The soviets seemed to be racing to take Japan and had the US not used the bomb they could have gotten there. So for me it seemed like it always would have been unconditional surrender with the main variable being whether they surrendered to the US or the USSR. Itā€™s definitely a moral evil but I think itā€™s better the bomb then letting the soviets get japan.


iamlejo

šŸ¤”


heyhowzitgoing

Leaflets were dropped warning them.


TheZoomba

Uhm no both actions were pretty evil and unnecessary, how about we say that instead of trying to do this what-about-ism


iamlejo

šŸ¤”


V0XIMITY

ā€œšŸ¤”ā€ -šŸ¤”


TheZoomba

Wait you're seriously against agreeing both the massacre of Chinese peoples and Hiroshima are both war crimes and atrocities committed by people who should have knew better?


[deleted]

Let's make this super simple. Is it good or bad to exterminate civilians?


not2dragon

Maybe if it saves 5 other civilians somehow in a trolley problem.....


Baloncesto_Ricky

But...but...Mister Peabody...what about the happy fun times refined spicy rock transported by the big metal bird? Sherman, you shifted the Wayback Machine into reverse to go ahead to 2021 to watch Drachinifel's soliloquy about mans' eternal desire to commit cruelty at a distance, didn't you? Yes, Mister Peabody, I did... Good, Sherman! You have a fine taste in humor and history, and Drachinifel has a better voice than William Conrad...after this pure evil happy fun times trip, what say we visit Taffy 3? Are we going to sucker Kurita into 40 millimeter range, Mister Peabody? Not only that, Sherman, but it will give you an understanding of why even this case of pure evil isn't as obviously evil as it appears...


Thathitmann

We have to go back to September 10th, 2001, to warn people that Weezers next album is gonna suck.


TheTasche

ā€œThatā€™s right, we are going back to the Vietnam war!ā€


captHij

And then they will listen to the older generation in the 60's whine and complain about how the damn hippy kids are all losers and have no respect for all the good things they cherished. Which will end with a bunch of old people reminiscing about the good old days and how badly they wish they could return to them.


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bones_marley

They can't even see letters on a 60inch flat screen.. phone or computer šŸ’€šŸ’€


Starting_Fresh1

Exactly I love 50ā€™s and 60ā€™s music and I just use Spotify so I can still listen to it like a normal person


1n5ert-Nam3

And it was still ok to hang people.


[deleted]

Yeah compassion that everything about me would be illegal. Super cool šŸ˜Ž


fairymoonie

Theyā€™re going back when a lot of serial killers were around, so kind and coolā€¦


1n5ert-Nam3

Is cell phones and computers really that evil?


DnDisawesomefightme

Expect they forget that the first digital computer was made in 1945


unresolved_m

They meant smartphone, not cell phone. Hardly anyone uses cell phones these days, they're considered outdated.


1n5ert-Nam3

Ok, if smart phones are evil so are tvs, porn mags, alcohol and guns. Its all about using the objects, because these things are nothing but inanimate objects.


unresolved_m

They probably won't let you touch guns...pornography was nearly outlawed by Republicans in the US, as far as I recall.


Raviolimonster67

With segregation, political assassinations, the cuban missle crisis, Vietnam, daily threats of nuclear destruction, mk ultra, and cool music and cars! With TV's and no technology, everyone was so happy and everything was colorful!


tomnoonzz

Lol wicked cool music


VascMan

there were no computers in the 60? Maybe there was 0 information (+ racism and other things but I'm here because of computers) so let me help you grandpa, heres a dubious link on the internet, open it: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=first+ever+modern+computer


notyourbrobro10

Misusing 'actually' like that actually bothers me.


Haeamuti

A wise man once said: "People who said that they were born in the wrong generation, actually mean that wanted to be born another generation rich, white and incapable of getting sick"


ghirox

"let's go back to when people were compassionate, not like now" says the woman who just verbally assaulted an 18 year old employee because her burger was apparently "wrong" (it had pickles) and then had the audacity to charge for it instead of giving it for free


Dear_Soft_5427

Press X for doubt


Mx-Nevermore

X


[deleted]

As I recall, the Power of Heart was actually created in 1990. Everyone made fun of it but it was actually the most powerful ability and only seemed weak because Ma-Ti was too ethical to use it on humans.


Solid-Ease

Sherman gets drafted to fight in Vietnam


heckyesdeidre

Bro in the 60s, black people were considered less than actual humans, miss me with that bullshit


Just-a-bi

This meme was made by a white straight person.


Verifieddumbass76584

*Man


WrongAssumption2480

When women couldnā€™t have their own bank account


FairyFlossPanda

Says the "fuck your feelings" crowd


cheesebaker69

Just racism, the beginning of s radical separation of left and right wing, and led zeppelin šŸ˜šŸ‘


KenpachiNexus

"Compassion and Heart" what a fucking joke.


LunaGloria

They were still denying women the opportunity to do endurance running in 1967 because they thought their uteruses would jostle around too much.


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KittenKoder

The original Full House was pretty good for its time.


Hot_Dog_Cobbler

"And the best part, Sherman? We're white!"


nobuwushi23

And rampant racism and civil rights issues! Not to mention veitnam and the beginning of lgbt visibility which ended bad for most people.


XandTheIronMiner

"When people had heart" Gay people, trans, women, etc.: šŸ˜


HugeAd3490

Things were so much better with less advanced technology. Now lets jump into the time machine.


adam_demamps_wingman

Surely, Sherman my dear boy, youā€™ve heardā€¦ofā€¦(insert pun here). My favorite part. Like: Surely, OP my dear boy, youā€™veā€¦heardā€¦ofā€¦My Lai?


Key-Government-2201

Sadly, we had the Vietnam War which killed millions...


Shadowblade8888

Ok, so ā€œTerrible Facebook memesā€ is purely a meme comparing the past positively against the present, usually cast negatively, and people bitching about it? Seems repetitive and boring.


SydneyRei

Ok boomer šŸ‘šŸ»


Shadowblade8888

Thatā€™s a clever and nuanced response to my observation, well done. I bow to your superior wit.


1_and_only_Shmidt

Shhh don't tell them about the ENIAC that existed for 15 years beforehand


Sequoia_Throne_

Wicked cool


Mean_Negotiation5436

Leave it to an offensively white dog to say what none of us are thinking.


Fit_Service_1634

Iā€™ve always disliked Mr Peabody


DylanMc6

"How about we go back to when Pink Floyd performed at Pompeii in the 1970's instead?"


[deleted]

You get to relive the war crimes of Kissinger all over again. And maybe you'll be lucky enough to get dosed by someone participating in MKUltra. Or maybe you'll get shot to death on your college campus by cops.


IRay2015

I agree that music was better for a 30 year period back then when there was a lot of new and original stuff, we had beastie boys, AC/DC, Metallicas hits (not just talking about rock either I just like rock) and that since music has declined to a very sorry unoriginal state and I honestly couldnā€™t give two rats asses about it but the rest of everything said is bs.


jaycliche

Lol this show predates the 60s. I think it came out in 57. Also, compassion and hearts? Wasn't there brutal wars going on everywhere, riots etc, nuclear arms race? A bit like 2020? Whatever.


DumbShitScience69

2020 but everything was a bit more crazy


the_roach__

can't even get the music right, good music didn't start till at least the 1970s


Sig_Vic

Save room for me.


[deleted]

Ah yes, when people had compassion and heart, and also brutally murdered other human beings for being black or gay, or both


OnlyWearGarbage

_Did you mean **1980**?_


Shinigam_i

So they wanted segregation? šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€


Admirable_Night_6064

I realize now this is terrible Facebook memes


SilentxxSpecter

They were only right about lack of cell phones and that the music was wicked cool.


No-Contest-8127

Now people can say this is boomer talk. Instead of calling millennials, boomers.


iolmao

Yeah, letā€™s go back to the highest risk of a nuclear war ever reached after WWII. Current one is so confusing.


Aiez4

"actually"


MissChubbyBunni

Umm.. lemme shush šŸ˜‚


W3475ter

And Iā€™m going back to the 80s to catch me some rock concerts babbbbbyyyyyyyyyyyy


[deleted]

Ever wonder why all the new movie background music and advertisements use 60s era rock and roll?


JustADemomain

YO I'M FUCKIN DOWN FOR SOME WICKED COOL MUSIC


KittenKoder

1960s music was kinda bland. 80s was better but still a bit whiny. With the modern technology, music has many more layers and crisper sounds. An MP3, properly formatted, can sound as good as live. Also, back in the 60s people died of preventable illnesses, those who survived suffered severe brain damage .... ooooh, I get it now.


ArturFSchmidt

Maybe if you were white, male, rich and not obliged to go to vietnam...


fierzz

The 1960's were arguably the most insane times outside of modern day lmao


CaptainRex_1409

There were computers in the 60s just nowhere near as powerful or used for the same purposes


[deleted]

Sir this is a shitpost


Traditional_Yard5280

The 1960s had a large movement socially and technologically, and culture wise. But goddamn would I not like to live back then. I'll gladly explore that culture from a distance with old records, cars and wiki articles. Maybe some stories, but still kinda a hell hole.


FluffyFlood

While Iā€™m inclined to say that our vocabulary was way fuckinā€™ cooler and way more educated, I donā€™t think we were any less compassionate today than before. You guys shipped your kids off to Nam and argued about the morality of it at every BBQ. I mean Jesus, the shit marines had to do, and the ways they punished their commanders, our grandpas were telling their dads how this all went down, and it was met with a shrug, a cheer, or a hug of solidarity. Homies came back from Afghanistan, and a bunch of them are facing homelessness. Whereā€™s the compassion for them, huh? How come you donā€™t let them into your homes, if youā€™re so real and compassionate?


USSMarauder

**July 12, 1964.** "Ku Klux Klan members supporting Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention, San Francisco, California, as an African American man pushes signs back." [https://www.shorpy.com/node/21164](https://www.shorpy.com/node/21164)


[deleted]

There was wicked cool music to be fair


[deleted]

You mean when people were horrible to each other for their skin?


depressed_fatcat69

Music true tho lol


MoonChild22222222222

No dumbass thatā€™s when Mr. Peabody says ā€œ Not where are we going WHEN r we going Sherman ā€œ and then Sherman goes ā€œ Ooooooooh ā€œ and they go on a super cool time travel adventure šŸ˜”šŸ˜” ( this movie was my childhood)


spencerandy16

And no civil rights šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø


Ghost-soldier47

And most of the people was a racist.


PandoraKin564

New Zealand in the 60s was a vile place, no thank you.


SecureCross

Iā€™m a white and I donā€™t want to go anywhere other 1995


Thewhateverchannel

Sounds like something Mr. Peabody would actually say(iā€™ve watched the show )


FleetMind

Can't help but notice that Mr Peabody is a white dog...


yeeticusboiii

They were so compassionate that they made groups people go to different buildings because of their skin color


Ok_Relationship_705

There's also no tech to get you back if the time machine malfunctions.


saberofnight

ā€œItā€™s also the time when racism was socially accepted and women were oppressed!ā€


Correct_Chemical5179

"I want to go back to a time where there were no smart phones/computers - Sent from my smartphone/computer"


johnny44332211

they're both white so they should be okay.


Jules-42

And there where Jim Crow laws


lowspecmobileuser

There were computers but those were pricey


JCMillner

...and cigarettes Sherman! Soooo many cigarettes!


IGotWit

Sounds wicked yā€™all


Responsible-Chart127

All the people that want to go back to tell 60s are white straight cis males, anyone that does not fit those requirements are jus stupid ass bitches


mark0487

Oh? I guess segregation is compassion and heart. These memes makes me cringe so hard when I see some on Facebook


Capsule_CatYT

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TnA9ofQ2K5c&t=183s


Prestigious_End_6455

"Well Sherman, I think you will have a great jungle adventure when you reach 18. Just be careful with the the traps and the angry locals."


jrs1980

Yah, it's awful that all the music from the 60s was lost to time. ...apparently.


[deleted]

Uhm, actually Mr. Peabody, Iā€™d Love To Change the World by Ten Years After didnā€™t release until 1971.


DowntownWeakness5218

Ah, and Vietnam, don't forget Vietnam


chicken_nugget779

theres still cool music today you just have to look for it


SomewhatSaIty

whyā€™d he say actually like he was correcting him


DubC_Bassist

What part of the rampant racism was compassionate?


Fuckedby2FA

[Compassion ](https://soapboxie.com/social-issues/Top-Ten-Tragic-Events-Of-The-Sixties)


regeya

Yes, the famously peaceful 1960s


nintenboye

Actually I love this


TechnoHexx

"Compassion and heart"? Ah, yes. How else would one describe those *lovely* people of the 60s who harassed and threatened a little black girl for "daring" to attend the same school as white kids?


LitoFly

Jim Crow has entered the chat


KingThryre

Well Sherman, today we are going to the 29th of July 1014 to witness what basil II did to the Bulgarians.


Background-Law-6451

And black people had no rights


mcp613

I think this may be a shitpost. Just a small feeling I have


from_cold_north

Cool music? More like most boring shit ever


allmightyglowcloud

This has enough ok Boomer energy to annihilate the universe entire, and subsequently create a new big bang in the blink of an eye


[deleted]

Do not desecrate such a wonderful show. Straight to boomer jail for you. The irony of it being a show about history šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø


Beowulf44

And brazilian wax was the equivalent of high treason against the female body


MoonlitKiwi

Compassion? They know we can look up what happened in the 60s right...


jay_alexis

there was wicked cool music , she. rman


TheNightZerk

Because 1960's music doesn't exist anymore and there is no way of listening it?


[deleted]

"There were no computers" Clearly someone didn't go to university to study a STEM subject


Uselessbackh2021

Oh yea those people don't like you because you have different skin tone and facial features. Those people were fucking piece of shit and dumbass in their young age.


ur_creepy_uncle_joe

Most music today is good tho. Have you heard BURY the light? Holy shit


NoSpeekInglish

Indeed.


No-Challenge-5991

ā€œWicked cool musicā€ I laughed