News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on ‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study. Parent comment

Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by globular-toast on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:06AM (#24896939)
They are just conformists. PG wrote an excellent piece about conformism here: http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html

True progressives are out there fighting current battles. Corruption, bribery, current-day slavery etc. Conformists are out there marching about battles already won like gay rights, slavery in the United States etc.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by shadowgovt on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:59AM (#24897574)
Gay rights is hardly a settled issue. If it were, the GOP wouldn't have adopted reversal of the Obergefell v. Hodges precedent as a party platform plank in 2016.

https://news.yahoo.com/richard-grenell-addresses-rnc-gop-220...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by globular-toast on Monday October 26, 2020 @01:35PM (#24898755)
The US isn't the world.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by shadowgovt on Monday October 26, 2020 @01:39PM (#24898795)
Obviously, but calling gay rights a "battle already won" when the third largest country in the world by population still has one of its two major political parties fighting tooth-and-claw on the issue seems premature.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by wil421 on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:11PM (#24902588)
What do the 2 largest countries by population do?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by Tainnor on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @12:33PM (#24909039)
Sadly, it's not solved in the rest of the world either.

LGBT rights in Poland and Russia are in dire straits. In Chechnya, I think they still deport gay people. In far too many countries, homosexuality is still illegal. Even in the Western world, growing up gay or trans often is associated with a measurably higher level of stress.

Of course, it got better, but it's still not over.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by globular-toast on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:55PM (#24909995)
OK. It's missing my point, though. Gay rights is a bad example in some parts of the world, clearly. But my point was these people are usually vocal about issues that aren't really controversial.
[ Parent | on HN ]