More likely people will make excuses for us and say 'well it was a different time' even though comments like yours and articles like this are clear exceptions.

More likely people will make excuses for us and say 'well it was a different time' even though comments like yours and articles like this are clear exceptions. There is a certain condescending sympathy that we afford to people just because they lived in the past. It comes from a misplaced desire to avoid anachronism, but ends up committing anachronism anyway.