To understand all is to forgive all?
Well, in the Liberal/Progressive world anything evil would fall under that guideline. Of course, they wouldn’t even begin to understand/forgive Conservatives.
Keeping people ignorant is one of the cardinal rules of the elitists. Ignorant folks can be manipulated so much more easily.
Sigh.
I guess the thinking goes that if you understand the psychological underpinnings or reasons of why someone does what they do, you’re likely to become less judgemental.
At any rate, that was the government’s rationale for suppressing a psycho-history of Hitler.