People like to believe there must be some really complex explication for each thing that happens, but just a few hundred years ago we burned a lot of women for

People like to believe there must be some really complex explication for each thing that happens, but just a few hundred years ago we burned a lot of women for being "witches" and a lot of homosexuals because we didn't like how they used their genitals, so many times the explication of "a big chunk of people can be really really stupid" is the actual answer, despute not feeling satisfying.