[lucky american]

It’s all about shaming and social acceptance. People were ashamed of going outside the social norms. Today it’s a free-for-all. Go in a Walmart lately?

[robroys woman]

Plus, if I forget to take off my wife’s bra, it’s no big deal.

[jurroppi1]

“The 1950s are now remembered as an age of wan conventionality.”

What is “wan” conventionality?

[factoryrat]

All of this is straight out of the communist manifesto, as followed by elements within the US democrat party.

Things were going according to plan for the socialist-democrats right up until they lost control of their most radical leftist constituents, namely ANTIFA, BLM, BAMN, NBPP, LA RAZA, REVCOM, etc.

These groups are the monster that the socialist-democrats have created, and that monster is now completely out of control.

[Adder]

bourgeois

There’s your problem, right there. They were not “ bourgeois” values, they were values and they did not just appear in 1940. The emerged over 2,000 years of Western thought and the adoption of Judeo-Christian thought and morality.

I do recall being lectured by moral relativists that there has always been bad behavior such as out of wedlock births so why stigmatize it. The answer that there was a whole lot less then than now was met with derision. No matter how true.

We have lost our collective way the last 50 years..we resemble the late Roman empire: bloated, corrupt and morally bankrupt. Not just the US...all the West.

We were once a shining beacon. Soon we will be a 3rd world shithole.

[WMarshal]

Respect the intolerance of my tolerance!

[Seruzawa]

Thanks Nevertrumper Mona. You and your conservative chattering cohorts have not taken one step to reverse the rot. Just yak yak yak yak.

[Thibodeaux]

Racism is the human trait that allows civilization to exist. Racism is the cement that allows the racial bricks to build a society

Racism is a political construct invented to put forward a destructive agenda.

[Intolerant in NJ]

And most important, if the left cannot distinguish reasoned academic arguments from vile racist insinuations...please! - the left knows perfectly well reasoned academic arguments aren't racist insinuations - they purposely ignore the real meaning and purpose of any argument against them and make vicious accusations and claims of racism, sexism, or, to quote Hillary, you name it to put people on the defense and distract from the real issues - it is a cynical, opportunistic, dishonest ploy that makes effective discussion impossible......