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Overton Window

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A political theory referring to the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time, discussed in relation to how rapidly acceptable discourse has shifted since 2016.

Mentions (7)
"Not to sound like a lib, but when you actually sit down and think about it, it is so insane how things have gotten over the decade. The richest man in the world proudly and openly posts about white replacement theory. The president calls women pigs on live TV. The government is in kahootz with an AI"
The Overton Window · u/15millionschmeckles · ↑648 · 2026-01-10
"I was just told at work that I need to eat a cheeseburger. Imo that's just a shitty thing to say to anyone, but it's crazy because I'm not even "skinny"! I'm thin and in good shape but I have a decent amount of muscle. I'm right in the middle of healthy BMI."
"They start saying the dumbest things ever and you can see right through them because the issue is not inside your Overton window and you haven't been spoon-fed the same soothing false narrative that they have."
Seeing nationalism from a foreigner shows how ridiculous it is · u/Beginning_Event2894 · ↑340 · 2025-05-09
"I recently bought a juicer, so I was looking for a lemonade recipe searching it in English on Google. Most recipes called for 1 entire cup of sugar for every 1 liter of lemonade 🤮. I was like "Oh my God, if lemonade really takes this much sugar then I can't have it! This is basically poison!". Then "
Shocked by the Overton window of sugar consumption in the US · u/Hungry-Pen-11 · ↑173 · 2023-06-08
"Overton window has shifted so hard, discussions I'd only see on HBD forums in 2013 or the Unz Review are now being advertised (or at least, coyly hinted at) in NYC, the bastion of tabula rasa liberals."
fine you win, engagement bait marketing finally got me · u/ImNotHereToMakeBFFs · ↑156 · 2025-11-30
"Basically every other major social media type website has succumbed to the post-2020 shift of the overton window. TikTok, IG, Facebook, Youtube are places where you can go to learn about FBI crime statistics from popular rightwing creators."
"The Overton window now is so much more narrow in every direction. Queer art is mostly about the politics of visibility — find me something as explicit as Xiu Xiu or fuckin Shortbus that has any mainstream attention now."
Culture is 1950s-level homogeneous now · u/[deleted] · ↑45 · 2021-05-25
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