About once a week: Jessica: Can I still say <word or phrase>? Me: Yeah, that's still ok.
What does that tell me though? What if a person from the 1960s watched a comedy routine from the 1920s? How would we know that the delta of offensiveness for us watching something from the 1970s is more or less than that?
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There’s whole categories of jokes in the 1970s that I would have thought funny/appropriate that now I see as just offensive. Generally relating to identity politics. I think topical discussion of the same subjects now far more edited by everyone.
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But Paul’s contention is that the *rate* of new taboos is accelerating, not that in some cases, this generation might see some topics as offensive in a way that they weren’t a generation ago.
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