• qevlarr@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Exactly. Ethics can differ. Of course you can say something privately if there is a real problem, but this is some 1950s bullshit I don’t want to go back to

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      2 months ago

      dude the '50s people just gossipied behind eachothers backs, and hid any problematic behaivor under a rug so no one found out.

      Their silence on real issues is why generational trauma keeps going.

      what you mean go back to that shit?

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        2 months ago

        Yes, that’s true, but I meant about restrictive social norms. One person’s reprehensible norm breaking is another person’s struggle for recognition. But you’re right, publicly calling out stuff is not what I meant

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          2 months ago

          for example, a poly couple would be shamed in the 50’s, or anything not heteronormative. I see what you mean