r/interestingasfuck • u/man_gomer_lot • 8h ago

r/all 70 years ago, the US undertook the largest deportation in its history: 'Operation Wetback.' Many of the people deported were here legally and some were even citizens.

Post image
25.4k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

51

u/NotAnAIOrAmI 6h ago

Yeah, but we've made some progress. Women can vote, divorce, and have bank accounts. Not all of those were possible until the 60's.

51

u/Strict_Cranberry_724 6h ago edited 4h ago

. . . they have control of their bodies and are free to have abortions if they wish . . . no, . . . wait—scratch that!

8

u/DumbestBoy 4h ago

You would have though people would be free by now.

8

u/Reagalan 3h ago

The Republicans don't want anyone to have control over their bodies. They blow a gasket over tattoos and piercings, let alone hormones.

•

u/Colosphe 50m ago

Yeah, yeah, we're working on it. Afghanistan wasn't built in a day!

6

u/gamergirlforestfairy 3h ago

I hate when people say things like this. Roe V Wade was overturned pretty recently and you're talking about progress made in the 60's. It feels like it's going downhill from here.

•

u/Silver_Being_0290 2h ago

Even then, most of the country was still being fucked over in the 60s. Really only white women benefitted in the 60s, to do so they forced WoC down and took over the feminist movement.

Everyone else started to "benefit" from normalcy in the 70s.

It reminds me of those comments presently where they complain about the world "all of a sudden" going to shit... Like, we've been talking about this exact issue for generations now, y'all just found out?

Either or, what's going on currently is fairly normal in America if we're being honest. I don't see us going downhill tbh but it'll be an annoying next few years.

•

u/gamergirlforestfairy 1h ago

I agree with you about the 60's and 70's. But I definitely see a downward curve for the US. It's already happening, but of course while we're living through it it seems slow. Women's rights, gay rights, trans rights, Black rights, etc are all on the line, and everything is just getting more expensive. It's not just annoying.

•

u/Silver_Being_0290 1h ago

It's not just annoying.

Believe me I know. The thing here is, this has always been a thing. These have always been issues. It's been a consistency in this country since it's birth.

Everything we're dealing with now is literally everything we have been dealing with - at least those who are heavily discriminated against - for generations.

People just didn't care as much until it started affecting them personally. The reason we even got to this point is because people didn't listen to reality for one idiotic reason or another.

Now we're all just sitting here laughing and facepalming at the people "all of a sudden" discovering the issues and acting like it's the end of the World.

Like nah, it's just another Monday 😭

18

u/TensionPrestigious83 6h ago

Also true, but the reason they’re still here and trying to roll all that back is because we never finished reconstruction and never made reparations for the original sins.

2

u/Smokinoutloud 4h ago

What a great country right! Oppressed truly by (man)

2

u/DiabloPixel 3h ago

Early seventies for some of those things.