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It is the sanctimonious, self-congratulatory attitude of those who imagine they are somehow wiser or better than their forebears which is perhaps saddening
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Pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbtttt.
Acknowledging that some things have changed for the better is not the same as pretending we're inherently wiser or better than our forebears. It may be that for each thing that's changed for the better, some other thing has changed for the worse. But that doesn't change the fact that some things are better.
Or perhaps you think nothing's changed for the better since the good old days, when it was okay to say "nigger" - back when white people's superiority was treated as a given; when unwed pregnant girls were disowned and shunned while the boys who'd gotten them that way were winked at and slapped on the back; when gays and their spouses suffered quietly all their lives in sham marriages; when nobody reported child abuse; when everybody drove around drunk and worked in asbestos-lined buildings with peeling lead paint and locked fire exits.