what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?
Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.
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Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.
"A N***** WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT. AMERICA HAS LOST ITS WAYS TO INSANITY"
"F*****S PARADE AROUND THE CITY AND THEY WERENT SHOT AT FIRST SIGHT"
"PATRIOT ARRESTED FOR BURNING CROSSES"
"PEOPLE CLAIMING STATE AND CHURCH SHOULD BE SEPARATED ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE, THEY ARE COMMUNIST TRAITORS"
That's more of a 50-70s thing. In the 1920s communism wasn't a big idea in the US and God wasn't in the pledge nor part of our national motto.
The first Red Scare was in 1919 and communism was a big enough idea in the US that the government was putting communists in prison
I don't know how many headlines would be talking about Communist traitors in 1923.