There is right and there is wrong

[d_r]

It boggles my mind that people don't see what side of history they are on, but I honestly don't think some of them do. In this picture - I think these people 50 years ago thought they were standing up for good old fashioned family values. I don't think it is as simple as people are just stupid, I think it is cognitive dissonance or something.

But people make me sad sometimes.

[Booster]

1. I remember those days very well. This picture makes me very sad.

[rug]

2. Hatred is an acquired behavior.

It's not natural.

[malthaussen]

3. But it is acquired at a very early age...

I think it may be one of our first socially-learned behaviors. I knew some really rotten 5-6 year olds back in the Day, and that's no joke.

-- Mal

[freshwest]

4. +1

[doohnibor]

5. Don't short the effects of stupidity

Especially when the stupid turns nasty.

[bluerum]

6. Cognition has very little to do with it.

[rurallib]

7. last night our local PBS ran the show about songs of the civil rights movement

I sat there and cried. I was @10 to 15 those years. I was always so incredibly taken by their courage.
Here we are 50 years later - same shit happening.
Not sure if I was crying in honor of their courage or that we as a nation are headed backwards so fast.

[Brickbat]

8. That photo is ripe for a revisiting. It would be interesting to find some of those people standing

and see what they're doing now. Kind of like how the media revisited Hazel Massery 40 years on.