True-which is why I point out the brutality of both sides in historical conflicts-it doesn’t make me think my Hispanic ancestors were nicer-but it does serve to show they were pretty much in the same class as Heart-ripping Native Americans, Spanish torturing/burning heretics, Italians-Borgias, anyone?-Brits with the persecution of the Scots, etc-you weren’t going to get anywhere back then by being nice-which is also why all the history-hating/denying statue smashing snowflakes are so ignorant and full of s***-they choose to ignore how far we have come and how we didn’t ride in on a unicorn...
“which is why I point out the brutality of both sides in historical conflicts”
I prefer to focus on the heroic, the greatness of historical figures, the ways in which these world historical figures can teach us lessons.
Robert E. Lee takes a lot of flak these days because he was loyal to his state instead of the Union, but the fact remains that he was a magnificent soldier and a great man.
He has lessons to teach anyone who cares to look. However, it seems to me that when we become tendentiously even-handed, and concentrate too much on whatever transgressions are alleged, those lessons seem to be lost.