Can you give some examples? I'm out of the loop. Personally, I am trying to think of something I could say five years ago that I can't say now.
I was at a party recently where someone argued hard-shell tacos are racist.
More seriously, one could probably express a broader range of views--correct or not--on Israel and Palestine five years ago than one might be comfortable expressing (or even asking about) now.
As a taco enjoyer I don't think this is a serious argument and it's weird that you're taking it seriously
> on Israel and Palestine five years ago than one might be comfortable expressing
As someone that has been yelled at by all sides of this debate I really don't think that's true, I was getting yelled at 5 years ago too
They were yelling and called the host a xenophobe. They will not be invited back. It’s not a serious argument. But they took it seriously.
> someone that has been yelled at by all sides of this debate I really don't think that's true, I was getting yelled at 5 years ago too
You can always get yelled at. The point is almost any expression about this topic is likely, today, to set someone in a large group off. That wasn’t true five years ago.
Then, as now, reasonable people recognize that while no vaccine is perfect (hell, even a natural exposure to many diseases doesn't always confer immunity) on the net they are improving health way more than it is causing loss of health. Then, as now, people who claim unsupported things (MMR causes autism) are going to get push-back.
The only thing that has changed, that I can see, is that the denialism is stronger now than it was five years ago.