@alisynthesisAlison Wilder @benBen Werdmuller I think you're spot on.

Until around 20 years ago, there were still plenty of people with a lived experience of World War 2.

Holocaust survivors. World War 2 veterans. People who'd hidden in bomb shelters during WW2. People like my grandparents, who became refugees as a result of WW2 or who fled the Nazis.

That generation may not have always been totally enlightened in terms of their racial politics. But if anyone were stupid enough to advocate for fascism in their presence, they'd be swiftly put back in their place.

As an aside, many of the prominent civil rights leaders, politicians, and cultural figures around in the '60s tended to be born before the end of WW2. They weren't baby boomers.

That includes people like Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, JFK, John Lennon, Bob Dylan.

They'd lived through WW2. They were pushing for a more just world after it.

A lot of the blame, I think, lies in our education systems. History is not seen as an important subject in school. Many people graduate without knowing much about WW2.