A recent New York Times opinion piece laments that “Americans Are Turning Against Gay People,” warning of a supposed slide back into the moral dark ages. But this interpretation misunderstands the spirit of the age, especially among Generation Z, where the shift reflects a resistance to an aggressive and demanding cultural regime.
The two authors, psychologists Dr. Tessa E.S. Charlesworth and Dr. Eli J. Finkel, cite their decades-long research into Americans’ implicit and explicit biases against gays and other minority groups. According to their findings, “Across every US state and demographic group, anti-gay bias plummeted” from 2007 to 2020. “Forecasting models suggested anti-gay bias could hit zero as early as 2022.” The researchers then abandon any pretense of neutrality, openly eulogizing the “decline of tolerance” and the world they were promised—one of peace, love, and universal gay acceptance. Young Americans see right through these games and are turning over the board.
Coming of age politically during the Obama era meant being force-fed the Millennial-coded claptrap of political correctness, such as speech policing around pronouns and microaggressions, land acknowledgments, and corporate virtue signaling. Only by extracting the traditional views of the past could the new, enlightened generations herald the coming of the progressive Übermensch
