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I mean, that's cool. The question I was answering was, > I often wonder how much of what I see today as "normal" > will be perceived as horrible / offensive /
by justinator 11y ago
I mean, that's cool. The question I was answering was,
> I often wonder how much of what I see today as "normal"
> will be perceived as horrible / offensive / wrong in 50
> years time.
And technologies that are polluting our environment for selfish gains fits!
I'm sure we could dig [0], and find a majority who thought ethnic groups were somehow not actually 100% human and thus, OK to treat as such, and only with scientific evidence, that was overturned - perhaps that was the #1 excuse for abuse of ethnic groups, and I'm talking genocidal proportions.
There are people who now still don't believe being gay isn't anything but a choice someone makes. Which I'm sure you and I know understand as a bat-shit crazy stance.
I mean, you tell me - how long ago was it that the majority around you thought along similar lines when it came to trans-folk? A few months? Do you think scientific evidence is going to help, or hurt these people live much better lives?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch