Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/02/2024At first I thought this chart must have started in the 1950s but nope, nearly half of Americans were against interracial dating in *1985* 75934163 934
Dan @dandwig.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Anyone have a source for this extending past 2016? I'm hoping there's continued to be general improvement, but I'm not optimistic. 010 1
nicho-b.bsky.social @nicho-b.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Lol, what the duck is going on with the arrows on this graph, it is horrible formatting 030 3
Halaylah Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee @halaylah.com · 07/02/2024That's about when my mom let me know she would be disappointed if I dated someone "outside my culture." 020 2
usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 07/02/2024I recently mentioned on Tumblr, for those who weren't there in the 80s, you do not appreciate how much racism, sexism, {string_variable}ism was just in the air we were breathing back then. 0100 10
Rachel Miller @rachelmiller.bsky.social · 07/02/2024In high school I had a white classmate who argued that it wasn’t racist for her to refuse to date a black person, because it’s just how she was raised. One of her three white daughters is dating a black guy now, so I guess she decided to raise her girls differently? 4150 15
Tom Dennis @thomasadennis.bsky.social · 07/02/2024In the middle of the Reagan Error? Totally believable. 2200 20
C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Absolutely. I graduated college in 1985 and it would have been a MUCH bigger deal if I'd brought home a dude who wasn't white than if I'd brought home a girl (we had a bunch of gay relatives tbf). My "not racist" parents told me interracial dating "wasn't fair" bc they'd leave their community. 030 3
wiljago (its/it) @wiljago.bsky.social · 07/02/2024graphs like this make people who joined the moonies make a little bit more sense. (going "well i guess the only solution to racism is if everyone gets an arranged interracial marriage then" mode) 030 3
Erin Hern @erinhern.bsky.social · 07/02/2024I want to know what happened in 1991 that shifted public opinion about all three so much 220 2
Stephen Baines @stephenbaines.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Yep. I grew up in this and I remember it well. Every time I see a mixed race couple on TV I breath a sight of relief. 020 2
Frightful Boo-schoff @mpbmke.com · 07/02/2024Yeah, I remember it being a much bigger deal as a kid in the 80s and 90s. Like, TV commercials couldn't have interracial couples until... the 2000s? Late 90s, maybe? 040 4
Aviendha69 🦋🍁 🇨🇦 | ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂ @aviendha69.bsky.social · 07/02/2024oh yeah, I remember those days. Lots of yelling in the schoolyard, but between Michael Jackson, MC Hammer, and the rising popularity of R&B and Rap, we all wanted to hang around the cool guys. And then date them. 020 2
Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Why is the race question "disagree" when the other two are "agree"? Doesn't this show an increase in opposition to interracial dating? It seems deceptive. 000 0
tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 07/02/2024at some point in the '80s when I was old enough to be paying attention TV Guide had a picture of an interracial couple on the cover and there was this huge furor. 0230 23
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Social progress doesn't happen by people dropping bigoted views, it happens one funeral at a time 71086 108
Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 07/02/2024In 1983, the Supreme Court ruled in "Bob Jones University v The United States" that refusing to allow interracial dating made it permissible for the IRS to revoke an organisation's tax-deductible status. As if by magic, miscegenation stopped being a problem with churches. 091 9
Brad Reed @harveyjerkwater.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Yeah, that sounds about right. Open racism was considered socially acceptable until maybe the early Sixties, late Fifties? 1985 was only twenty-one years after the Civil Rights Act passed. People who resented its passage were still around in vast numbers. 150 5
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 07/02/2024oh, just watch TV shows & movies from the early 80s. "You wouldn't want your sister to marry one, though" was absolutely an 80s thing. In 1982, in a world without CGI, Mr. T terrified a nation. Progressives have actually PROGRESSED & moved the football down the field in the right direction. 060 6
D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Median age was ~30 years in 1980s (www.statista.com/statistics/2... ). So ~half the population in 1985 was older than Brown v. Board. And remember the Baby Boom was an overwhelmingly White thing. 020 2
Blood Lily 🩸 🏳️⚧️ @tigerlily.northsky.social · 07/02/2024The Jeffersons was still on in 85, and in that the interracial couple's relationship is a total joke. 010 1
Macster @millhousebooty.bsky.social · 07/02/2024the interracial Cheerios couple backlash was just a few tears ago www.today.com/news/cheerio...today.comCheerios ad with mixed-race family draws racist responsesA new Cheerios commercial featuring a biracial family has prompted a debate over race in America after drawing a host of ugly remarks online. The commercial features a biracial daughter asking her whi... 0170 17
Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 07/02/2024In the mid 80s, we hosted one of the extended family reunions, and some idiot neighbor called the cops "concerned" about a white woman walking around the block holding hands with a Black man. They were married. My immediate family was so embarrassed a neighbor would do something that hateful. 140 4
Granny Weatherwax @esmeweatherwax.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Yep. I remember when we crossed over the 50% mark. Red letter day that only half of people thought my family shouldn't exist. 0340 34
Harter Lancet @velikizeko.bsky.social · 08/02/2024I was born in '83 and still remember a lot of stigma about it as a kid/teenager. In many ways we've gotten a lot better. That kind of improvement is what drives the bigots nuts (see also for LGBTQ+ people). Hopefully the forces of equality and equity can continue to win 020 2
Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 07/02/2024As recently as 2004 11 states passed ballot initiatives to ban gay marriage. Meanwhile, Gallup's poll from last year found 71% supporting the right for same-sex couples to marry. We've seen huge opinion swings on other social issues in our lifetimes. 010 1
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 07/02/2024More than half of British people against it when my parents got married, I believe 110 1
Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 07/02/2024My high school girlfriend in 1989 North Carolina was Black. Let me tell ya, it was more than 50%. 060 6
Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Assuming I'm reading this right and the darkest line is for firing gay teachers, I'm honestly surprised it was that low in 1985. 050 5
knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social · 07/02/2024My wife is 32 and she has just now had family members reconnect with her because she is mixed-race. 020 2
TooManyJens @tealdeer.bsky.social · 07/02/2024I was in high school around then and I have no trouble believing this. 020 2
Brian Nygaard, ham. (he/him) @nygaard.bsky.social · 07/02/2024It's because we're terrible, Michael. We've always been terrible. 010 1
David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Right in the middle of the goddamn Reagan era, and also the start of my 20s, so yeah, I believe this. As a white dude who went on dates with black women, I also got to experience it. 000 0
Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Was born in Iowa in 1970, can confirm. Racism then/there was... it was like this smog that took the edges off everything, but it was so pervasive you didn't really think about it? Until I moved and traveled and saw interracial couples and was like "Oh! This seems much better!" 0190 19
Susieus Maximus @susieusmaximus.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Oh, yeah, absolutely. I have personal observations of this from that era. I'd figured there were going to be some people who'd give us looks, but I was surprised by how many there were. 000 0
Garpu @garpu.bsky.social · 09/02/2024I remember my mom in the 80's telling me I shouldn't date a Black guy because "think of the children." In the interest of disclosure, my mom's a huge racist and we haven't had contact since 2006. 000 0
Southern Hell @southernhell.bsky.social · 07/02/2024I lived in MS in 1985 and nothing had changed since the 1960s. This doesn’t surprise me at all. 030 3
Dammit Bagby @dammitbagby.bsky.social · 07/02/2024When I started working in educational publishing, we had textbook projects for which we were told not to spec illustrations of interracial couples. That was in 2005. 030 3
Bunnicula 🎃 @haredurer.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Clearly a lot of the hardest no's died around 1990. 5420 42
Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Richard Cohen wrote that interracial marriage makes “conventional” people who are “not racist” nauseated in the pages of the Washington Post in TWENTY THIRTEEN 0390 39
jig.bsky.social @jig.bsky.social · 08/02/2024i always wonder who exactly they were polling for these results. 000 0
Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 07/02/2024There's a song about it on Public Enemy's "Fear of a Black Planet" - "Pollywannacracker" 000 0
🎃👻 all hayo’s eve 👻🎃 @superhayo.bsky.social · 07/02/2024the particular touchstone for me regarding this is the 1989 family ties episodes (two-parter!) about a black family moving into a white neighborhood www.imdb.com/title/tt0577... 180 8
Dan L @leonarddaniels.bsky.social · 08/02/2024Kind of surprised that people were more racist than homophobic. 000 0
Becky Brett @zathras16.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Wow. I don’t remember that being the case at all. 000 0
RootfireEmber @rootfire.bsky.social · 07/02/2024This doesn't shock me, remembering my childhood in the 80s/90s. Granted, I lived in a conservative hellhole.... 1140 14
Al Petterson @eyelessgame.bsky.social · 07/02/2024This is part of the bizarre Panglossian viewpoint those of my generation were taught as children - growing up in the 1970s, racism was supposedly a thing that had vanished completely when MLKJ gave his speech. Racism is what we 'used to have'. Surprising how much our reflexes still act that way. 020 2
Marc Hirsh @spacecitymarc.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Don't like the looks of that "known homosexuals" graph, Bob! 000 0
jace cavacini @dysamoria.com · 07/02/2024I vaguely remember a cultural moment back then, but don’t recall specifics. My parents still feel the need to specify that a person they’re mentioning is black. I ask why and they fumble 🤨 In the last 10 years, I feel like I’ve seen mixed relationships on British TV *way* more than American TV. 020 2
Taterkaze @taterkaze.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Not surprising. Loving vs. Virginia was 1967. People aged 25 to 75 then would have been 43 to 93 in 1985. The biggest part of generational change is outdated beliefs dying off. Someone born in 1967 is now 56. 020 2
Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 07/02/2024I went to grad school with people whose high schools had segregated proms, in the mid-90s. 4490 49
ScaryDeath Hastings 🎃 @mbhastings.bsky.social · 07/02/2024And it appears there was a spike in Americans wanting women to get back in the kitchen - soon after Hillary Clinton was asserting a different role as first lady. 050 5
ProzacElf @prozacelf.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Assuming I'm reading this right I'm kinda shocked at how much lower "school boards should be allowed to fire known homosexuals" starts out here but how relatively stable it remains thereafter 010 1
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 07/02/2024My Republican father was never against gay marriage, but I remember thinking to myself that if he had been, I would have been able to pull out the fact that, by the standards of his youth, he’s been in TWO nontraditional marriages: one wife was Jewish, the other Asian. 1511 51
David @hexstardragon.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Thankfully it drops to merely about one out of 8 Americans in the long past time of... 2010. 😞 000 0
ⓓⓔⓔⓑ @deeb.bsky.social · 07/02/2024I have clear memories of racist uncles making derogatory remarks about interracial couples on TV in the late-80s / early-90s. 😫 060 6
Mouse @cricketmice.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Someone who is now an old trump voter has lived through a revolution in social values as rapid as someone in 1920 going from rural poverty to urban electricity, plumbing and subways in just a few years 030 3
This is BS @thisisbs.bsky.social · 08/02/2024Any white het woman who grew up through the mid aughts knows this. It was well understood that your parents would *never* say anything racist, and also would *absolutely* have a problem if you brought home a black bf. 000 0
Quarex @quarex.bsky.social · 08/02/2024Please do not misunderstand me, this chart is still depressing, but it brings joy to my heart to feel the abject fear of the 10% remaining knowing they are dinosaurs and we are a meteor 010 1
Jonathan Ibarra @ibarraesq.bsky.social · 08/02/2024Around that time, my mother (who, to be fair, went to segregated schools until HS) commented that she didn’t have a problem with it but wouldn’t do it herself. (Though she did marry a fairly dark Mexican guy [my dad], which her parents were themselves unhappy about.) 000 0
Jami Reynolds @jamandru.bsky.social · 08/02/2024Since America was set up for minority rule (land owners) and elections have been optimized for unpopular politicians to succeed, unfortunately it’s possible for that ~20% regressive attitude group to dictate policy. 000 0
Talorast @talorast.bsky.social · 07/02/2024The military was a largely liberalizing experience for me so let me tell you how shocked I was when a kid who was in my unit said he couldn't stand the sight of a black man walking with a white woman. In 2010. Everyone around him lit him up. He didn't even think it'd be controversial. 0300 30
‘The Work of Democracy is The Work of Our Time’ @mdrfl.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Fact check: true! I was one of those daters even before 85. And yea. 🤨 Lots of racism freely being expressed. 000 0
ethelmay @ethelmay.bsky.social · 07/02/2024It's probably not unrelated to the even more shocking percentage of people who agreed with "Women should return to their traditional roles in society." (Which basically means women getting told what to do.) 050 5
Erin C (she/her/elle) @cdnerin.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Didn’t they recast the female lead in Hitch because even in 2005, we couldn’t have a Black man kiss a white woman unless it was A Movie About Race? 020 2
