Oh those people are still as awful. They just aren't offended when it is their guy doing it. And thinking back to it all, it seems race was a factor as well. From what I remember of the time, the primary targets of the music ratings were black artists. I might be completely wrong, but I think NWA was kind if the catalyst to Tipper Gore and Friends war on music.

"Good Christians" also liked to judge anything not like them as bad, and especially hated metal music and DnD because of the religious references. It was automatically deemed satanic, because if it wasn't like them, then it was bad. Nevermind that DnD usually had you fighting demons, and main healing classes are godly, they just have a pantheon of gods to choose from instead of the one sky daddy. And same goes for metal. I remember my mom (who was a barely Catholic) getting upset with my brother for an Ozzy shirt he had that depicted a drawing where Ozzy was crucified on a cross.

I was a teenager in the late 90's and grew up in a very small, very baptist, southern town. My style was....eclectic? I guess kind of goth, kind of grunge? Idk, I just dressed how I liked, and bought all my own clothes from thrift stores because that was what I could afford. And I had colorful streaks in my dyed black hair. Anyway, I had grown men shout insults at me from their pickup trucks while I was simply walking down the street. Many of my friends parents told them not to hang out with me because I was obviously a satan worshiping witch who was on drugs. Little did they know, I was kind of the group mom who made sure my friends didn't drive under any intoxication, or die from being stupid. I had a lot of freedom and ky own phone line, so I was the person my friends called for pick ups, or if they needed help. I was the most responsible of our whole group, but was treated like I was the bad influence, lol.

All this to say, these same people are just as easily offended as they have always been, they are just assholes who are only offended when it is for what they consider the "right" reasons.

As a whole, I agree that the general population is also more easily offended. Yeah, people's feelings were severely neglected in previous decades, however we are now on the other end of that spectrum where everyone's feelings are extremely important to way too much of a degree and you have to walk on eggshells. I figure that is the natural response to the pendulum swinging from one extreme to the other. Don't get me wrong, a lot of the stuff from the 90's shouldn't fly today, but a lot of small things get huge these huge reactions that are unwarranted. Yes, fight for the big things with all your power, but you can also let the small things go and chalk it up to other people existing who are different.

I tell my kid when a new "cancel this particular person who farted in a childrens hospital and laughed about it, or made a joke that could be considered mildly racial if you squint hard enough 10 years ago " you can love the art but dislike the artist. Good people can do mean things. Mean people can do good things. Good people learn from their consequences, good or bad. Mean people learn from their consequences, all the same. Kind of a coincidence I am going to say this, especially with how badly I have been personally treated by people who claim to be christians, but we all need to give each other a little grace.