I asked if anyone else noticed the phenomenon I outlined becoming increasingly pervasive. the comment I was replying to drew a correlation between the phenomeno

I asked if anyone else noticed the phenomenon I outlined becoming increasingly pervasive. the comment I was replying to drew a correlation between the phenomenon becoming increasingly pervasive as per my allegation and the increasing societal acceptance of homosexuals and atheists, and then asked that, given this, why I preferred the past to the present. this rhetoric is nonsensical. "man it sucks how the US space program isn't as good as it used to be a few decades ago." "well ok but a few decades ago people were more racist and homophobic than they are today, why do you think the past was better?" this is a pretty insulting and non-sequitur response that's very easy to make about just about anything that compares any point in the past to any point in the present, I don't see what it has to do with anything I wrote above, and in fact it seems to sidestep my entire thesis by reframing my argument as "remember the good ol' days when we were more homophobic and religiously intolerant, and also not everything was deemed a 'conspiracy theory'?"