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Re:I Met Paul Graham Once by ThrowawayR2 on Monday January 20, 2025 @12:57PM (#42771256)
It became so socially unacceptable that its proponents won the US presidency and took control of Congress and globally famous business leaders are bending the knee to them without repercussion? What definition of "can absolutely" are you using?
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Re:I Met Paul Graham Once by ziddoap on Monday January 20, 2025 @01:13PM (#42771407)
It is less socially acceptable in some cultures, more in others.

The fact that a gradient exists is proof that, under different circumstances, the social acceptableness of hatred can change.

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Re:I Met Paul Graham Once by Arainach on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:15PM (#42774306)
The popular vote does not determine what is right. The US elected an incredibly racist Richard Nixon by a Landslide in 1972, but that doesn't mean society couldn't make progress on making it unacceptable to use racial slurs in public.
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Re:I Met Paul Graham Once by lucb1e on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:36PM (#42774490)
I personally did not read the parent comment's saying of "can" as meaning "has been"
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