• N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    Social media wasn’t around back then to show them how college makes people gay, i.e. tolerant and open-minded. It’s hard to lump minorities into a stereotype you hate when you meet individuals, and they’re just people like you.

    Plus, the promise of riches from a college education went out the window when it became less valuable than a boomer high school diploma.

    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Oh they didn’t need social media for this then, they all listened to Rush Limbaugh who said this stuff. Media was way more stratified and vertical then. They still believed this stuff and the “American Dream™” which required college for some reason. The two existed simultaneously while being at odds with each other.