I should’ve predicted this, but the first segregated public pool came to be due to racist anxiety about Black men interacting with white women. This is, what, roughly 30 years after the first municipal public pools were created? They survived germ theory intact but not racism
#books #pools

Wait, so public pools are a social good because they force poor children to bathe, but they’re a social *evil* because they don’t promote “organized” play, leading to crime? I guess some might call this a wash
#books #pools

Wait, so public pools are a social good because they force poor children to bathe, but they’re a social *evil* because they don’t promote “organized” play, leading to crime? I guess some might call this a wash
#books #pools

Wild to think that public pools didn’t *smell* like a public pool until at least 1910
#books #pools

Wild to think that public pools didn’t *smell* like a public pool until at least 1910
#books #pools

Public pools were introduced to US history non-segregated. They were specifically made to be places for groups to come together
#books #pools

Public pools were introduced to US history non-segregated. They were specifically made to be places for groups to come together
#books #pools

You could find nearly this exact tweet today about any number of things that middle and upper-class people think poor people should not be able to enjoy. What is a poor person had *fun* for two seconds outside of the crushing reality of class oppression?!
#books #pools

You could find nearly this exact tweet today about any number of things that middle and upper-class people think poor people should not be able to enjoy. What is a poor person had *fun* for two seconds outside of the crushing reality of class oppression?!
#books #pools

This is literally the argument that of course welfare should exist but it should only be available for “necessities” instead of anything that supports the human itself. These 1890s elites would similarly say “oh they say they’re poor but they all have phones!”
#books #pools

This is literally the argument that of course welfare should exist but it should only be available for “necessities” instead of anything that supports the human itself. These 1890s elites would similarly say “oh they say they’re poor but they all have phones!”
#books #pools

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