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Depends. Not every part of the world has the same culture, and it didn't suddenly become OK to be gay everywhere on some specific date. In the 1960s, it was pro
by tachyonbeam 6y ago
Depends. Not every part of the world has the same culture, and it didn't suddenly become OK to be gay everywhere on some specific date. In the 1960s, it was probably much more OK to be gay in say, San Francisco than in Detroit.
In the 1960s, I believe SF did have much more of a live and let live attitude than much of the rest of the world, but IMO, SF is now a not really tolerant place anymore. There's very much a dominant narrative being imposed by the big silicon valley players, but culture does change over time. If you try to enforce certain political ideas and suppress others, you inevitably give rise to some kind of counter-culture, it seems.
- lotsofpulp 6y ago>If you try to enforce certain political ideas and suppress others, you inevitably give rise to some kind of counter-culture, it seems. Is intolerance of intolerance intolerance?
- xpe 6y agoI recommend thinking about this question in the context of public morality versus private morality. I recommend this book by Robert Kane: "Through the Moral Maze: Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World" GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1654373.Through_the_Moral_Maze https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1654373.Through_the_Mora... A book review by Bruce Ballard: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/490166 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/490166