Maybe 3% of the time, although if the time window went say 10 years into the future, it might be 10%.
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I liked it better when intent mattered.
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Come on, you guys are way more powerful and influential than you were 20 years ago (which is exciting!) What’s that Spiderman line? With great power, comes great responsibility? Words matter. They travel farther & faster than they did a decade ago. We should exercise care.
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Maybe we've become more influential, but most of the problem here is another change that has happened simultaneously: the acceleration in the rate of new taboos.
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How do we prove that that is true?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @paulg and
Watch some comedy routines from the 70’s. I believe you’ll quickly see a number of offensive routines far beyond what we’d accept today. One measure of changing sensibilities. Generally I agree with the changes, but I think sometimes about myself that I’ve become less tolerant.
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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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Replying to @kimmaicutler @paulg and
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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Replying to @kimmaicutler @paulg and
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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