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It occurred to me this morning that, just as we see people becoming radicalized in online forums focused on terrorism or white supremacy, we also see people become radicalized in relation to Mormonism.

I've seen it happen a lot over the past decade. The forums become very intense about one or two ideas and kind of chew on them for months or years. It might be women and the priesthood, or complaints raised by a letter, or who knows what. But what ends up happening is the members of those forums begin to think those ideas are HUGE DEALS in the real world when they are really the views and concerns of a tiny, usually privileged minority.

I first realized this when, about a decade ago, I h

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EDIT: Hi r/exmo visitors! Let me know how your tapir memes feel when you guys get catalogued by the SPLC!