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In short, literally none of this stuff is actually new. Indeed, as Oliver Traldi has pointed out, the entire contemporary debate around ‘free speech’ and ‘political correctness’ bears an uncanny likeness to 1990s controversies on these same topics. Perhaps George Santayana was right when he declared that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Um, how far ago does the author think the 90s are? Yes, many of the same arguments from the 90s are happening now. It's not because people who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. It's because a large number of people were alive in the 90s and now and are having the same debate still.
There are a lot of "regular people" out there interested in these issues who were too young to have been involved in the '90s. Maybe the tone is off but I certainly appreciated the history lesson.
Um, how far ago does the author think the 90s are? Yes, many of the same arguments from the 90s are happening now. It's not because people who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. It's because a large number of people were alive in the 90s and now and are having the same debate still.