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_OriamRiniDadelos_ t1_j35khr7 wrote

Reply to comment by Pearl_krabs in Americans are finding almost everything more acceptable these days [OC] by pncohen

I don’t know, could be a stereotype thinking that history is always going “forwards” and more enlightened. Sure, n general it is, but in the last 200 years specifically? Maybe there was a decade in the 1700s where people became more puritan than their grandparents. Maybe a religious revival or a moral panic or a new pseudoscientific understand of cheating

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Pearl_krabs t1_j36lx7w wrote

More puritan than the puritans? Sure, let’s start with I don’t know and then speculate.

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