"the cherishing of antipathies is a luxury for which [people] ought willingly to pay, instead of transferring the hateful tax onto the victim" is such a bar, my god
Asher Elbein
In 1872, the Chicago Evening Post published an absolutely brutal editorial mocking people who objected to sharing public spaces with Black people. Still some dated language but a remarkable piece.
“Hire a carriage and you can sit all alone by your own sweet self for $2 an hour.”
