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[–]reluctant_commenter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I truely hope we are not undoing the enlightenment at this point!

A couple days late but just wanted to respond to this... Unfortunately I think there's some anti-Enlightenment sentiment among people my age. As I have turned more and more towards the direction of wanting to see the evidence, the science behind people's arguments, I've noticed more resistance when I talk to people about taking a "logical" approach. Some seem to see the phrase "logical approach" or "rationalism" and think "white supremacy" or think it's about bigotry. Which deeply disturbs me.

For the record, I think I live in something of a liberal bubble. But sometimes I wonder whether the simplest and most direct solution to most problems affecting LGB people, is just to teach critical thinking skills to the general public... that, and the value of tolerance.