u/ZhugeLiangPL

Me? Honestly, only The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins and that was in 2014. But this will change soon:

My reading list (alongside books about history and politics)

Carl Sagan - The Demon-Haunted World (thanks to this sub's recommendation!)

Ralph Leighton, Richard Feynman - Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman?

Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time

Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins - The Extended Phenotype

Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

The corresponding term in Poland is "ideologia LGBT" (the LGBT ideology) and just like in the US, it stays undefined except for borderline meaningless statements like "they're destroying the family" (how exactly?).

From what I've read, it's not an academic term at all (imagine that!), it was coined by the Christian right in the US in the early 1990s and popularized in a video called The Gay Agenda, which claimed, among other things, that homosexuals are "recruiting heterosexuals to the homosexual lifestyle" (a piece of incoherent gobbledygook since sexual orientation is an innate and fixed trait). Namely, Pat Robertson was instrumental in spreading it and the video was (allegedly) even shown to members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and members of US Congress.

This happens both here in the EU and in the US - precarity and wealth inequality are increasing but people rarely attack the billionaires, they unload their anger towards LGBT people, women, immigrants as well as academics, journalists and activists - which are cultural elites, not economic elites who actually call the shots. Why is that the case?

EDIT: I made a stupid typo in the title and I can't even edit it. :/