About once a week: Jessica: Can I still say <word or phrase>? Me: Yeah, that's still ok.
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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To me that’s the rate he’s talking about. All of us empathize with a far wider concept of human experience. We’re quick to take the side of the underprivileged—a great thing. I just think the trade off is everyone self sensors.
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What if data shows we are all communicating a lot more with everyone, all the time, and are speaking so much in so many unpredictable & evolving social contexts that that *feels* like there are more taboos, when in fact we are exchanging a greater, rather, than smaller # of ideas
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As an example, as a gay guy in my youth there were no non-binary people, no queer playfulness. No pronouns. The trans community was ostracized by the LG folks. I am far less sophisticated in how I talk about these issues than the younger LGBT folks.
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Again, if we did the 1960s versus the 1920s, you’d be comparing Civil Rights era comedy with Jim Crow era comedy. How would we know there is faster change of taboos today than there was a generation ago?
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