07-23-2022, 07:46 PM
It is little tolerated except in the most backward milieus such as religious fundamentalists and the semi-literate. Jokes about homosexuality that may have been passable before AIDS are about as acceptable as Polish jokes now. Homosexuality has gone mainstream in return for gays and lesbians kicking the child-abusing perverts under the bus. Such is what one would expect among people who have children.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.