Not every facet of society is related to racism. Saying I prefer the days of a single income being enough to survive on doesn't mean I wish black's and women had less rights. It's an orthogonal point. Wages are gone because manufacturing moved overseas in the same time period, etc...
I assure you that “the good old days” weren’t so good for my still living parents growing up in the segregated south.
As far as “not everything being related to race”, tell that to my parents who grew up in the 60s and 70s when everything was related to their race there those were the good old days.
They literally weren’t “trusted” to drink out of the same water fountain, go to the same schools or swim in the same pool.
We are talking about “trust” receding in society. The majority didn’t “trust” the minority enough to even allow them to be a part of society. It’s only a different issue to you because your parents can wax poetically about the “good old days”
I’m not implying anything. I’m stating very explicitly that people who say trust is lower now than some mythical time in the past is the same time period when the US had laws explicitly targeting “others” because they didn’t trust Black people (Jim Crow laws, laws against miscegenation, redlining), Japanese (internment camps), etc.
The only people who long for “the good old days” when “trust” was high are those who benefited themselves or whose parents benefited from systematic and de jure discrimination.
The good old days when you could live off of one income came about because Europe was recovering from a war and we dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan.
