# Posters you can't stand. Pit rules f\*\*\*ing apply! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 20, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-you-cant-stand-pit-rules-f-ing-apply/478003 "2008-12-20T00:14:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 272
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-you-cant-stand-pit-rules-f-ing-apply/478003/272 "2008-12-21T03:42:47Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > THAT’S your proof? > > I suggest you ask Rosa Parks\* if life was better back then? Or Emmett Till’s family? Ever heard of Jim Crow? > > Or hey-let’s go back a little further, shall we? Why don’t you ask my great-grandmother, if life was better back then? Her two eldest sons never made it beyond the age of 6-my Great-Uncle Johnny died when he was about two of whooping cough, and Great-Uncle Karl stepped on a rusty nail and died of tetanus when he was five. And that has exactly what to do with the crass, vulgar, belligerent and utterly classless society that typifies American society now? > [@Guinastasia](#): > > Fifty years ago, the word “nigger” could be said in polite company. There was no such thing as “marital rape.” Inter-racial marriage and birth control were illegal. (I don’t mean abortion, I mean plain old ordinary birth control.) And that has exactly what to do with the crass, vulgar, belligerent and utterly classless society that typifies American society now? Was it impossible to correct/adjust these things without reducing everything in America to its lowest common denominator? > [@Guinastasia](#): > > suffer from an anxiety disorder-back in the so-called “good old days”, that would have been something shameful-and most likely, there wouldn’t have been a way to treat it. I also suffer from epilepsy-I would imagine that the medication and treatment that is available nowadays is a hell of a lot better than that of fifty years ago. And just how is it that these wonderful advancements in medicine are the result of turning this society into a cesspool? How did prohibition ever get overturned without turning society into a similar cesspool of vulgarity, ill-temperedness and lack of class? How did women ever get the vote without without turning society into a cesspool of beligerence, lousy manners and lowest common-denominator forms of entertainment? I spoken about this crass=racial freedom bullshit around here many times before. I could have sworn you were in attendance. Liberal permissiveness and aversion to standards and codes of conduct is what has resulted in this society having become what it is, and race had little to nothing to do with it. It started with baby-boom hippies who wanted to wear long hair and idiotic clothes and smoke ‘dope’ and do drugs and still get hired and make a living and not be expected to live up to standards of civil society. So the previous codes of conduct had to go, and liberal permissiveness and an aversion to saying enough is enough when it comes to their sacred cows has brought us wo where we are today. If you can pull your head out long enough to look around a little and look into it, you might notice that the civil rights demonstrators who had the most effect and did the most good, did so while wearing Sunday dresses and dress shirts, slacks and ties. It’s only because of history revisionists in the educational system the last few decades – revisionists anxious to explain or make excuses for the harmful effects their philosophies and permissiveness have had upon this country over the last 50 years – that people like you believe that nonsense. And on preview (or upon opening a new tab, as the board is acting wonky), thanks **Vox**. Well said. Would that I had your economy with words. 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posters-you-cant-stand-pit-rules-f-ing-apply/478003)._