Spencer and Prejudice

Herbert Spencers From Freedom to Bondage famously claims that [T]he more things improve the louder become the exclamations about their badness.  And he offered a bunch of great examples.  Inspired by Spencers insight, I recently turned to Google Ngram to look at long-run trends for six oft-named expressions of prejudice.

 

 

 

 

Notice: Four out of six evils  racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are now vastly more discussed that they were in early decades.  As Spencer would have...