Re:A once respected biology journal indicts evolutionary bio...
by mumblemumble on Saturday December 31, 2022 @03:03PM
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I'm not quite as old as you're guessing I am.
I'm also not really interested in picking out specific movements, because I suspect that, on a forum like HN, that would do more to muddy the waters by encouraging further rhetorical cherry-picking. This is a forum that tends to incentivize scoring cheap points over sober, pensive discussion whenever social issues come up.
Maybe you're right, but if you were in that kind of wave - I guess you mean the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, not the widely mocked PC movement of the 80s? - you were exceptionally lucky from a world-historical point of view. Currently, the same words might also be uttered by one of the hostage takers in the Iranian revolution, any member of the Taliban, or one of the older prison guards at a concentration camp in Xinjiang. (Really. Imagine each of those people saying that sentence). Point being, those words usually sound absurd to anyone who doesn't share your political and cultural frame of reference.