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by tomjen3 1615 days ago
Extremism is relative. Lots of what we accept with COVID would be over the top extremists in 2019.

Charlemange (supposedly) had people killed for eating meat on holy days. We would be outraged by even a 5 dollar fine.

Openly seeing gay/transgender people would be considered extreme by normal society just 30 years ago.