I remember us giving Hong Kong to China, and Princess Diana's horrible death.
As for the picture, I don't know what county it's from but it doesn't look like the British Broadcasting Corporation which would have been the dominant broadcaster of that era, so I wouldn't know.
In a perfect world where nobody doing the hiring was ever even a little subconsciously racist, that would be perfectly reasonable, yeah.
Though that said we end up with a lot of nuance in the real world. Let's say there's a traditionally marginalised, opposed racial group. Let's say times have changed somewhat and people suddenly accept them.
Well, the generational and cultural weight is still going to have a lasting effect even if times have changed, and it may be more difficult for people from that group to afford a good education, good job, good home, etc.
The point being that even if we all stopped being racist today and hired purely based on how good an employee someone will be, we're likely still unknowingly skewing our decisions based on past social racial issues.
I'm probably not putting it very well but hopefully you get the idea! It's probably pretty common knowledge anyway I guess haha, seems pretty obvious to me and I don't even think about this stuff much :-)
Anyway, point is, we do still need to work as a society on ensuring diversity and fairness even when we're not racist at all - I think the saying might be "Equity over Equality", or such?
Obviously the USA Government are fascists, so they're more interested in wiping out groups they don't like, but they're just another in a long line of evil governments that will eventually fall, no point thinking too deeply about why they're being evil. They'll eventually die off as all fascist regimes do. Hopefully we won't have to fight a World War against them this time.
Why wouldn't we capture him and milk him for his eternal energy forever? We will power grand Gigastructures that dwarf the very stars themselves fueled by his essence! WE WILL TOUCH GOD HIMSELF!
Some sort of well organised community militia with the right to arm themselves, perhaps? Wait, that's a great idea for addition to the Constitution, write that down!
Hah, your powers of deduction won't work on me! For I am young, and not even from the same continent as the USA so Tang never existed here!
But I know the link between NASA and Tang because I'm a NERD! MUHAHAHAHA (It wasn't ever actually Tang that flew but rather a NASA concoction, but boy is it good advertising!)
One particular astronaut was once caught on a hot mic complaining that he was extremely sick and tired of drinking the juice they provided and made them drink in significant quantities during the flight... I'll leave you to go look the details of what he said and why they insisted they drink so much of it, because I want you to get sucked in to Apollo history too 😈
Yeah it's tiring. It seems especially prevalent on Lemmy, way more than I've ever seen anywhere else for some reason.
Like, I use Linux for all sorts of things, it's great, but there are plenty of situations I use other stuff in too. Open your mouth around these folks though and all they say is "hurrdur use Linux".
That's depressing, but at least there were people like yourself who understood the backwards injustice of it all.
Some people and places have to be kicked and dragged into the modern day, alas.