Now politically incorrect past times of childhood…

Rae said:
We used to dress in our mother's old clothes and shoes and play what we called dress up. It was fun and my mother would laugh and my brother would roll his eyes up. We also ran through the sprinklers in the yard when it was hot. I do not think kids today would consider this a fun time for them.
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My grandkids love running through the sprinkler in Grandpa's yard :)
I don't see other kids doing it, but maybe they don't have a grandpa who thinks it's funny to turn the sprinkler on when nobody is expecting it or dressed for it. ;)
 

My brother was allowed to have a BB gun at about age 11 but told not to point it anyone or anything living. He just shot at targets made for the gun. I am not sure that is something for kids today.
 

I had cap guns also as a child, but there was no danger that we could be accustomed to use real guns later against people, since my country has one of the most strict gun laws in the world. In fact it were the Nazis who introduced the strict gun laws. This lasted until today.
 
dilettante said:
While supposedly it began that way, it quickly transformed to mean people who believe it's ok to marginalize selected scapegoat groups and to shame, terrorize, and discriminate against them. I suppose the idea is to punish them for real and imagined excesses of people from the past who seem to look like them and may or may not be their ancestors.

In other words they become exactly what they claim to despise: bigots.
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I don't understand this post. My takeaway is that you're saying "woke" people believe it's ok to marginalize selected modern day scapegoat groups, shaming, terrorizing and discriminating against them based on possible excesses of their ancestors.

What modern groups are being judged or marginalized based on their ancestors' beliefs and behaviors (rather than their own)?
 
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