Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit
steeznson@lemmy.world 1 week agoThey worked fine in the 90s/00s. Social media and smart phones has just come in and created hyper-polarization since then. Human beings aren’t designed to be able to handle getting news so quickly from such a wide variety of (dubious) sources.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Worked for whom? Not queer people. They couldn’t get married until 2015. Sodomy was not federally legalized until 2003. You could be put in prison for having sex with another person of your gender before that. Even if it was in the privacy of your own home and was by mutual consent if someone wished to press charges. And vast numbers of people tried to prevent both of those things from becoming the law of the land.
They were norms and they were not good and I had no respect for the people who felt that sort of oppression should be maintained. And I told them so.
steeznson@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Queer people were oppressed by the social norm of not judging people for their political beliefs?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes. Because of people were judged more for voting to oppress them, maybe progress would have been made sooner. I’m amazed that isn’t clear to you.
steeznson@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’d argue that attempts to force people to change their beliefs too quickly has led to a conservative reactionary backlash in recent years.
Recent surveys are showing an increase in people, in particular young people, harbouring intolerant views vs even 10 years ago. I think that suggests that the maximalist progressive rhetoric on social media is turning people away from progressive causes.
Creating a more tolerant society is a frustratingly slow process where the general public gradually become acclimatised to new ways of thinking. Forcing it creates a backlash because people need to feel like they arrived at their ideas themselves. There used to be an acknowledgement that it was a mutual process which is missing from the debate today.