As a rule, I think it's worth asking what (potentially valuable) conversations we're not allowing ourselves to have when we take certain ideas to be "taboo". Startups have been built off exploiting false taboos. Airbnb for example ("I'm not letting some stranger into my home!")
The one good thing about the neo-Victorians is that they make it easier to understand the 19th century. When I was a kid, Victorian prudishness seemed completely mystifying. But seeing it reborn has helped me understand the forces that produce it. http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/the-censorious-age/ …
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A good take on http://paulgraham.com/say.html
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Society is a pendulum, the return swing is now well underway. We even have a secular concept of sin these days.https://twitter.com/nickdothutton/status/1068224614638239745 …
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Now there's a guy making some lemonade.
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That argument feels deliberately intended to distort the other side. Victorians had no problem being racist or homophobic or sexist.
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Much of the no-platforming is explicitly racist and sexist, though. The entire "progressive stack", for example.
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What puzzles me most is the spectacular forgetfulness of those who would muzzle and shame their ideological foes, and enforce policies of euphemistic circumlocution. The verdict of history on these practices is so spectacularly clear and consistent that only a fool ignores it.
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For a moment, I thought this was about
@tumblr. If anything, my mistake might illustrate that prudishness has remained alive and well in corporations since Victorian times.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Just so, I've been wanting to find a good book on how the Victorians got that way.
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