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deletism 5 years ago
SMFH
mrzarquon pro 5 years ago
(as is the case with Naomi Wolf, she may have been referring to Belfast, Maine, which was also undergoing a massive economic recession that required a pivot to tourism in the 80s to finally get out of, so the rugged natural environment she's touting would have been a bunch of out of work chicken farmers)
caitlinburke pro 5 years ago
So, does she mean "the way it felt [wherever she was, presumably not Belfast] in the 1970s"?

Plus the age component. She went to college in 1980. I went a few years later, and yeah for sure in my mind the 1970s were calm, still, peaceful, restful, and natural because I was a latchkey kid with a stable home and school situation and didn't know anything else. I probably wouldn't have felt that way in Belfast, but I think it's easy to have those blinders on at that age in a lot of places.
mrzarquon pro 5 years ago
I think we don't need to spend more time trying to figure out Naomi Wolf, she's a peddler of low information:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019...
caitlinburke pro 5 years ago
@mrzarquon We don't have to figure her out, but it's also kinda stupid to assume that someone who was 8 years old in 1970 - and who grew up in San Francisco - is attempting an insightful analysis of 1970s Belfast.
mrzarquon pro 5 years ago
@caitlinburke true

It's also stupid all the way down, the reason this tweet got any attention at all in the UK (hence the assumption of Belfast / Troubles) is most likely due to the mention of 5G. There's been a rash of vandalism against the 5G towers due to conspiracies about 5G causes Covid:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...

(I've been keeping myself occupied watching this confluence of events unfold)
Lord_John_Whorfin pro 5 years ago
"Belfast… does not yet have 5G". You mean like 95+% of the world and 99.9% of devices? Who the hell is already so wedded to 5G speeds that a visit to a city with mere total 4G coverage feels like some kind of time capsule trip to a pre-tech Eden?

FFS, I hope she's being sarcastic as well as stupid. But given who's speaking, I assume not.

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