i have very little patience for “it was a different time!!!1! unless the “different time” was over a hundred years ago and even then when people say that it’s generally because they want you to give somebody grace for doing something that would have been objectively heinous in any era. i have heard such phrasing used to excuse the behaviors of slavers, sexual predators, and the guy who played kramer on seinfeld. it d
oesn’t move me anymore.