Looking Back In Time.

[anotheoldgit]

Any other old white man, noticed that their freedom of speech and the other priorities that they once enjoyed as a native Englishman, have now diminished from those that they once enjoyed during the 1950's era?

[Jahulaye]

“Any other old white man, noticed that their freedom of speech and the other priorities that they once enjoyed“

I know that hour post is directed at “ old white men” but as this “young white woman” knows many “old white men” I can talk on their behalf”

Yes if you’re a secluded loner who avoids the public and mixing with immigrants living day to day with a chip on their shoulder and a grudge against other races, creeds and religions

And no if you’re the complete opposite of my last posts description.

[ummmm]

My neighbours are white men, and Polish.

[jackthehat]

LoL....Like how?

[mccfluff]

i've emailed my dad to ask him, he fits the brief. I know he often says about how he used to travel a lot and how easier and cheaper it was to just pack up and roam about, here and abroad. Hasn't stopped him travelling in the slightest though he's always off somewhere.

[rowanwitch]

This old white woman has always struggled with freedom of speech, normally due to old white men.

[Gromit]

You freedom of speech has not changed.
But society has changed, and crass, insensitive, bigoted, racist, and sexist speech is more frowned upon.

In the 1970s you could see a blackman and throw a banana at him, and all your mates would laugh. But that was not nice behaviour, and thankfully that kind of stuff is now deemed unacceptable, and anyone doing it would be rightly castigated.

You should probably try to move with the times and accept that changes in morals and politeness are fluid and ever changing.

[Jahulaye]

Life now has never been better. Do many opportunities, technological advances and the world, friends, relationships and knowledge are more accessible then they’ve ever been.

Personally I like to read a little about life and then go and experience life and not spend 98% of my time reading about life from media outlets from my armchair and making no effort at all to go and experience it believing everything I read is the truth without no real life experience to use as a benchmark.

[Kidas]

I'm an old(-ish) – at 60– white man. I have not noticed any reduction in my freedom of speech. Quite the opposite.

However, I have noticed that women, people of colour and others have become much more vocal (and rightly so) at others (of any age, colour or creed who) call them names, restrict their freedom as British citizens, or are otherwise rude and boorish.

I welcome this as part of our long tradition of tolerance, diversity and British attitudes.

[Tilly2]

I was a child in the 50's. I had to watch my P's and Q's.

I'm not old enough to give an answer. :-)

[anotheoldgit]

rowanwitch

/// This old white woman has always struggled with freedom of speech, normally due to old white men. ///

As the late great Ken Dodd said "He hardly ever spoke to his Mother in Law, because he didn't like to interrupt her".

[Bazile]

//..the other priorities that they once enjoyed//

What were they ?

[Voltage]

i'm 60 this year
i say what i want
to whom i want to
and when i want to!
next question?

[anotheoldgit]

gromit

/// In the 1970s you could see a blackman and throw a banana at him, and all your mates would laugh. ///

Blimey the terrible things you and your mates got up to back in the 70s, shocking to say the least.

My mates and I were much more polite back in the 50s

/// You should probably try to move with the times and accept that changes in morals and politeness are fluid and ever changing. ///

Blimey remove those rose tinted specs and witness what is now going off all around you, "changes in morals and politeness are fluid and ever changing" and not for the better may I add?

[rowanwitch]

Nice reference, but I lost count of how many times I was discounted, patronized and belittled by older men. Like many women I have found my voice.
Things have changed and quite rightly it is no longer acceptable to be racist, sexist, homophobic etc so if the freedom to be unkind is diminished then good....

[Islay]

Things have changed thank goodness it wasn't until 1975 and the Sex Discrimination Act that a British woman could open a bank account in her own name. And as for getting a mortgage on her own … forget it

[Tilly2]

Islay, is that correct?

I opened a student bank account with LLoyds when I went to college in 1970.

[Mamyalynne]

Whilst I can't disprove what your life experiences are AOG, what is it that you could say and do in the 1950s that you feel has been taken from you?

[Jahulaye]

“In the 1970s you could see a blackman and throw a banana at him, and all your mates would laugh. ///

Blimey the terrible things you and your mates got up to back in the 70s, shocking to say the least.”
It is indeed shocking and what’s more these days bananas are still thrown digitally via online media platforms by many who speak in metaphors, shock, horror.

[anotheoldgit]

Bazile

//..the other priorities that they once enjoyed//

What were they ?

Well a child could be placed in the school of their parents choice.

Leaving school one could choose amongst the many firms of employment they wished to go to.

After they married couples only had to wait about 2 years before they were able to obtain a council house, then wait a few years more so as to save for a house of their own.

If they just had a touch of flu, instead of now, were one has to turnout in the cold to visit their doctor or attend a walk in centre, the doctor would pay a home visit, sit by your bed, check your chest, take your temperature and give you a prescription.

And if one needed to go into a hospital they were not wheeled into the corridor and treated from there.

[diddlydo]

Islay - that's nonsense. I opened my own bank account in 1967 when I went to university.