I've got the sense that myself and a lot of my friends hold opinions that would hurt them if exposed to public view, which makes me feel like we're some hidden group of 'no limits' curiosity. But this must not be new - throughout history,
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have there always been groups of people underground secretly reasoning themselves into opinions that the wider world viewed as offensive for the time? This makes me feel kind of elitist, and I'm not used to thinking in such binary value'd terms.
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but like, does this mean there were hidden salons in the 1600s where people were like 'yeah man homosexuals should definitely be able to marry' 'shh be quieter edward they'll hear you'
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Yes, of course, lots of such groups.
It was, basically, the millennials idea that they should publish all their hot takes for the world to see and archive, and it all will be fine.
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I think this has always existed. What is irritating about it is that the mainline considers itself super-enlightened about their intolerance these days, even though there’s plenty of well-recorded history that should demonstrate the folly of this
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Nope it was just you and your extremely intelligent and forward thinking friends. No one in the history of the world has ever had the brain power as your circle of friends to express their opinions. Narcissistic much?
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Isn’t that was the Illuminati originally was? An elitist group of folks who radically decided reason is a better frame than religion. They were hated. Maybe I just completely made this up
