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Any chance the people failing to remember aren't part of the minority in question? Many people are blind to oppressions because they haven't personally faced them or thought of them as jokes or otherwise minor, as they did not experience any negative outcomes due to them.
But yeah homophobia was rampant in the 90s. Gay was a slur equivalent to being bad or stupid, mainstream media was rife with it, and of course gay people were almost entirely closeted, including people with power or other things we'd recognize as privilege. I had closeted friends that were afraid of their parents. Literally 100% of them are doing great now, which is something that gives me a lot of joy and hope for us as a society.
Also want to validate the anti-Japanese racism of the 90s, generally conglomerated around anti-Asian stereotypes. Who thinks this wasn't rampant!?
This has to be it. I don't strongly qualify for any of the letters in LGBTQ+, unless you really want to add woman or "not a 10/10 supermodel" and the only difference in anti-LGBT rhetoric I've seen in my life is that I'm not required to interact with assholes after highschool and college. Even at jobs reactionaries usually tone it down, at least tone down the doing-it-openly and the targeting-somebody parts. The worst I usually see is by randos on the internet or like if I'm at a bar or if I'm dating a guy who has that extra sus friend or 50% of anyone's older relatives. I see misogyny all the time though, and also I see people who-aren't-women claim misogyny doesn't happen anymore. It's obvious to me that I don't see anti-LGBT so much because I'm not a target.