A values consensus from Millennials?

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(07-04-2021, 02:55 PM)nguyenivy Wrote: I think the gun thing is 50/50 and while the right to own a firearm in the US will likely still exist, it probably will requirement more rigorous background checks & maybe something like what we have for driving (tests) to be allowed to own one. I don't see porn continuing to be more accepted than it is now. I think it will at most remain as accepted and available as it already is at most. I think given the recent movements in our culture around consent, exploitation, and objectification being a far bigger deal than it was in prior decades, I think porn will start to move into being less accepted soon. Porn, along with sex-work in general, has varying degrees of acceptance or non-acceptance from country to country. I'm surprised to see nothing about environmentalism/climate or corporate power in this list. There has been some backlash in recent years especially in the LGBT community about corporations becoming a bigger presence at Pride events. I don't know how to feel about it. On one hand, it's nice to see more mainstream acceptance, but when does it become just about them doing it because they want more money?

With respect to both porn and LGBT acceptance (not trying to equate them) you have to consider what a sea change that represents compared to social standards in the US 75 years ago, at the start of the saeculum. Back in the 1950s both pornography and LGBT were completely underground. And at the dawn of the Culture Wars, red-state warriors were fighting to suppress them, but not so much any more. At best there is an effort to uphold red-staters' right to shun homosexuals if they want to, but I don't see how gay people are going back in the closet. And I don't see how our society is getting scrubbed clean of porn - it's become a mainstream part of the social media universe, with "content creator" sites like OnlyFans and with major porn sites having their own Twitter accounts.