Hey Chinese Americans,
You know all those stories your grandparents told you about during the cultural revolution? Like how your neighbour's uncle got arrested for listening to the radio and and so and so snitched on this person or that person?
If you're lucky enough to have grandparents/aunts uncles old enough to remember any of this, ask them about life then. Ask them how they survived. Ask them what kinds of things they did.
All those lessons are about to become very useful. I heard my grandma tell the same stories and got bored of them. I sure wish I listened when I had the chance and took the lessons in.
There are fewer and fewer who remember those days but there are still some. Ask for their stories. You won't regret asking.
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Cedar Fen Farm on 2025-02-01 at 01:26
@chu
I know all my grandma's stories from the depression. Better grow a garden and learn to cook. Stand on soup lines if you can find one. Work for food because there was no money. People moved in w each other and worked together to survive. Thete were food riots in the citied. People ate road kill, squirrels and small birds. The train yards were gathering places, so many men jumping box cars to travel to look for jobs. This is what happens when the economy stops. Goods and services stop moving.
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@oldoldcojote @chu The Depression was a terrible time, but at least people weren't being fired from their jobs for failing ideological purity tests. Growing a garden is probably going to be important, but so will skills for doing things that subtly subvert the autocratic project.
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Cedar Fen Farm on 2025-02-01 at 03:50
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Yes, they were. Racism was rampant. Women we're trying to get the vote. Jews were being rounded up. The dust bowl caused thousands to be tossed off their land by the banks. There were no jobs...... read the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, labor leaders, read how gay people were treated, essentially outlawed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/before-stonewall-biggest-threat-was-entrapment/590536/
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@oldoldcojote @philtor @chu Socialists were also prosecuted for organizing and protesting. Labor union members were killed.
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Then the blacklists of the 1940s and 50s, for purported communists
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@philtor
The sad difference is that, during the Great Depression, many people had enough habitation security to have a space in which to grow a garden.
These days, just having a property with a space for a garden is something of a privileged position to be in.
@oldoldcojote @chu
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Except for all the people dispossessed of their land by the banks, and even more on the move in the great migration.
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If we think the migrant crisis is a new thing: in the US in 1930 .5M were homeless, 3M internally displaced migrants from the midwest in a population of 122M. Double the current homeless and put 10M migrants on the move and you’ll get that picture for today.
Cancel all the New Deal policies that addressed the problems and oddly enough they come back. Who would have guessed?
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@DavidM_yeg Very true. There were many, many. @chu @oldoldcojote @philtor
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