Probably because that's the way they were treated when they were younger - it's the kind of thing that works generationally.
As for the extremism stuff - I think the distinction is that having an extreme view isn't in itself that bad (See Galileo, Columbus, Daniel Jackson). It's when your extremist view will directly impinge on the rights of someone else that it becomes a problem, especially when such extremism leads to behaviour exactly like that which the person is arguing against: Extreme Feminists persecuting men for persecuting women, like Militant Atheists preaching about how God doesn't exist... Neither thing is necessarily bad in itself, but like almost every opinion or mindset in the world, if taken to "Extremes" it becomes a problem.
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