Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture?

Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by Dig1t on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:45PM (#34614411)

Yeah it seems you can have wildly different experiences depending on where you live in the US. Probably why we are so politically divided, at this point we're living in different societies.

Anywhere in California you would not experience any of that. In fact it really is as OP describes. Look at polls of kids in elementary schools where 50%+ of young kids are identifying as non-binary because it is trendy.

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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by weakfish on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:27PM (#34615103)

I simply don’t believe those polls exist. Source?

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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by skyyler on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:44PM (#34616447)

>Anywhere in California you would not experience any of that

Hello, I have a close friend that was jumped by a small group of people for holding hands with his boyfriend. He was hospitalized.

This was in Oakland in 2015.

But even then, there's a lot more to California than the Bay Area and LA.

I don't feel very safe being trans and living in Lake County, but I can't afford the Bay Area anymore. So I just don't go outside anymore.

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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by undersuit on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @04:35PM (#34618166)

>Anywhere in California you would not experience any of that.

https://www.fox19.com/2022/04/19/gay-couple-says-man-screame...

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/peoples-park-uc-be...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/13/proud-boy-d...

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