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I think that's only one shard of a bigger picture. And it wasn't woke, it was political correctness
The 90's were pretty PC if you lived in a diverse area. LGBT was handled a little... Awkwardly, but in general things were pretty live and let live, people started adjusting to different cultures
Those areas were the first to colonize the Internet, because they were places with people and money.
That's where the PC came from, when all the racist backwaters connected to the diverse cultural centers, and people were like "holy fuck, how can people be this racist?"
It started an effort to scrub out racism everywhere, where these already generally tolerant people panicked at the thought of being seen as a bigot
It was misguided from the beginning, it made all the public shaming superficial and based on word choice. It didn't shame the racism like it should have
That’s a great observation, spot on.
The nineties were kind of accidentally sex-negative in how acceptance was peached. I remember a lot of media back then being like, "It doesn't matter who you are with as long as you love them."
Yeah, that's cool and all, but what about the people you just want to fuck? I don't think many people in the nineties were ready to accept people can fuck whomever they want and as long as there is consent it's cool.
Fair point, I think that's pretty accurate
Of course it is. It was just a wistful moment as I was waking up. Everyone is proving my point, though.
I agree with that. You were gesturing at something that's just true, how can you know the full picture without comparing perspectives?