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> I don't see how someone's year of birth is related, or important? It's related because people are incredibly biased toward liking things "as they were" when
by xboxnolifes 5y ago
> I don't see how someone's year of birth is related, or important?
It's related because people are incredibly biased toward liking things "as they were" when growing up. I'd be more impressed by accounts of people growing up in a time before the one they are praising.
- Apocryphon 5y agoPersonally, as someone who came of age during the Bush administration and the War on Terror, all of these cancel culture wars bore me because it’s all I’ve ever known. Since 2003 or so, I’ve never not seen American politics and civil society as a hyper-partisan wonderland of information bubbles and people shouting heresy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210730
- dTal 5y agoIndeed; those complaining most loudly today about "cancel culture" were the first in line to "cancel" the Dixie Chicks all the way back in 2003.