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How did people got word of police brutality in the 1950s? (nord.pub)

submitted 2 days ago by NightOps@nord.pub to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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There is no internet (let alone social media or body cams) during that era, since Jim Crow in America was still being enforced towards black people at that time, but the civil rights movement is gaining traction (since Martin Luther King was alive). I mean, cop violence has been around for a long time before body cams were invented. How did people hear first hand encounters from those victimized back then without reliance on social media?

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[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Are people starting to forget how society worked before social media?

People would congregate and talk. They would go to church or participate in various clubs and social events where they would meet their peers and talk about happenings in their communities. Besides that there were a variety of publications where news would be posted in and spread such as local newspapers, magazines and periodicals.

[–] deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You have to remember a lot of kids (I say kids and I am only 27) younger than 30 don’t remember a world before social media or we got exposed majorly at like age 10-12 because our parents didn’t give a shit and also had zero computer literacy and therefore didn’t understand the legit consequences of letting kids online all the time. Like yeah your Gen X parents know how to post their backyard ring camera footage and baby monitor recordings on FB and instagram now? My boomer parents barley know how to work a TV remote and they’re pirating all their movies/tv now. Also still paying for cable? I digress…

I had a smartphone when I was like 14, now kids are trained on smartphones and tablets before they can even walk. I’m serious it’s 1000x harder for them to ask for something in real words than send an instant message.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Talk to people, like in person?

[–] skvlp@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Almost like chatting. With text to speech, except without typing anything out. And no keyboards, and no screens, and no computers. And being in the same room, like IRL.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

What's transcribing the speech to text?

[–] redrumBot@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

The feds

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You had to do that yourself. In your head.

[–] skvlp@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

With automatic, on device, realtime translation, if talking to a foreigner and knowing their language.