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by notblahbl4hblah 4391 days ago
So the only way for a position to be correct is for it to have been widely seen as right and important by a large group for a long time? Obviously the number of people interested in gay rights was smaller in the fifties than it is now.

Are you one of those moldbugian jackhats? This kind of simplistic thinking smacks of their pseudo-intellectualizing...
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gaius 4391 days ago
Correct IS "widely seen as right by a large group". People in the 1950s were not evil or stupid, they were much as people are now: well-meaning and sincere in their beliefs. Their correct is not our correct, but in context, it's not "worse" than ours. If you'd been an adult then, you'd have beliefs in tune with the zeitgeist too.
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notblahbl4hblah 4390 days ago
You are assuming that your views wouldn't change over time. Ideas aren't static. You said that one would end up being reactionary over time when the new ideas disagree with your own...but that assumes that yours wouldn't change...
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