It’s part of the general pattern of mainstream thought lagging reality by two generations. The lefty version is seeing the world in race and class. It’s why we look at Victorian colonialism (or Churchill post WW2) in amazement at what they were thinking.
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It’s also why so much history of ideas is problematic. The high point of ideas, when you see them maximally in print, is way past the point they match reality (eg changes in sex, or gender roles happened way before media caught up).
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