What we were doing in school when I was a child in the 60's would be called "racist", "Facist"....blah blah blah. We were taught American Exceptionalism, pride in our immigrant forefathers, Christian morality, love of country, pride in ourselves and our neighborhoods, obeying the law, that cops and soldiers were the good guys. We said the Pledge of Allegiance, The Lord's Prayer and My Country Tis of Thee. We took our hats off, stood up and put our hands on our hearts when the National Anthem was played - and we STILL DO.
Our heroes were bigger than life - Neil Armstrong...baseball players weren't self-serving junkies. All of our cities were liveable. There were no broken windows, bulletproof glass, razor wire. None of that is normal. Accepting massive crime and violence on public transportation, in schools, parks, etc. is not normal.
There is not a single thing about our nation and our culture that has not been made worse for everyone since then.
College was easily affordable. A doctor would come to your house and you could pay them in cash or with a check without taking out a mortgage. Nobody was being exploited or oppressed. There was more opportunity for more people across the board then than now.
The hate factory has largely manufactured things like 'racism', 'White Privilege', 'equity'.
They used those ridiculous words so many times so badly out of context that they have lost their meaning. All they know is that they hate because their lives suck for one reason or another and they lack the means by which to change it.
The difference between them and us is....we do have the means by which to change our circumstances because we were brought up by the aforementioned "fascists".