"BlueR0se;c-18044661" wrote:
It's a slow pace kind of progress. There will always be people who will be bigoted/hateful but a lot of people just don't understand it cause they don't see it. But once it becomes more prominent and more mainstream people will adjust.
During time periods where there is a lot of change in a relatively short amount of time there is a lot of knee-jerk reactions and those negative sentiments will in particular fester/spread because of societal anxiety about change but in the long run things will improve. Not to mention there are other aspects at play and not just social changes.
You are making the, mistaken, assumption that progress is always forward.
Gay relationships were perfectly acceptable and normalized in Western Civilization 2,000 years ago (i.e. the Roman Empire). Changes to the power and political structure in Europe completely reversed that normalization.
While the gains over the last 100 years have been slow, the left is pushing a lot harder for the change to be more rapid now and it is entirely possible that this could lead to a political/power shift that ends up backfiring on them. Only time will tell, but your expectation that "in the long run things will improve" is ignoring history. It's something to hope for, but a mistake to count on it.