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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6711790" data-attributes="member: 22424">Which would have been fine, had you said that was what you were talking about. Detail matters.Indeed. But, again, details matter - you did say it was the majority. The Crusades, for all that they were a big event, were very much a minority event.Lots of crazy laws have made it onto the books in various places at various times. Lots of crazy laws get casually ignored. Something being on the statute books is actually a poor guide to what the majority of people necessarily believed.All true.Again, the issue is not your objection to the presentation of the two OA settings, nor indeed to your acknowledging the ugly parts of European history (or the whitewashed version used in FR). I'm not going to pretend that there aren't some very ugly parts of European history.But the issue is that when you exaggerate that to the extent that you say:then you've over-stated your point to an absurd extent, and to the point where it undermines the otherwise valid points you might otherwise have made.</blockquote>