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Any chance the people failing to remember aren't part of the minority in question? Many people are blind to oppressions because they haven't personally faced them or thought of them as jokes or otherwise minor, as they did not experience any negative outcomes due to them.
But yeah homophobia was rampant in the 90s. Gay was a slur equivalent to being bad or stupid, mainstream media was rife with it, and of course gay people were almost entirely closeted, including people with power or other things we'd recognize as privilege. I had closeted friends that were afraid of their parents. Literally 100% of them are doing great now, which is something that gives me a lot of joy and hope for us as a society.
Also want to validate the anti-Japanese racism of the 90s, generally conglomerated around anti-Asian stereotypes. Who thinks this wasn't rampant!?
Wasn't the prospect of Japan taking over the world a recurring plot thread in speculative '90s political fiction? Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor (1994), that kind of thing. Also seems like a line of thought in op-eds from the period.
Constantly. Cyberpunk leaned heavily in to the idea that cheap consumer electronics would vault Japan to global domination.
lol they were just east a little bit too far