I really don’t understand why you think it would make a difference if you had theoretically been a part of a time period, personally.
If you had been raised in a circus in the 1930s, you might have different views on tight-rope walking than you currently have. If you had been raised by Hells Angels, you might have completely different views on motorcycles and cocaine.
If you’re thinking that if you had been raised before the Civil Rights Movement you might have a different view of black people, well, OF COURSE YOU WOULD. That just means that you would have been raised in a different racist framework, it doesn’t mean the racism would have been in any way justifiable.
If you were raised in a 1950s Klan household, it wouldn’t be “you”, and that you would probably be a racist shit. If you were raised in a 1950s somehow-oblivious-to-race household, the fact that it was “invisible to you” wouldn’t mean there wasn’t systemic racism. (Setting aside that nobody in the 1950s was absolutely oblivious to race. The subject of this thread, Ronald Reagan, didn’t talk about gay people 99% of the time; do you think he didn’t know or think about them?)
