> You can hold a view that is perfectly acceptable within mainstream society right now, and find that 10 years from now that view is considered extreme or dange

> You can hold a view that is perfectly acceptable within mainstream society right now, and find that 10 years from now that view is considered extreme or dangerous. If you have a public and searchable history espousing that view, you could suffer very really consequences as a result, even if you no longer hold that particular view. I think you would have a pretty hard time finding examples of this in somewhere like the US: * Few things go from 'mainstream' to 'extreme' anywhere near that quickly. * If something does make that transition, there would be hundreds of millions of people who previously held the view and millions of people who previously endorsed it publicly. * People care about your current views, especially on topics where lots of people have changed their minds. In cases where I wrote about something and then later retracted it, I've never had anyone treat that as if I still hold my previous view.