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Err...how to politely discuss actual history with the willfully ignorant?

Perhaps an analogy.
A large meat producing company has forced illegal foreign immigrants to work for substandard wages, and under deplorable conditions, under pain of death.
The ultimate end users of their products eventually get word of this human injustice.
But the end users find they can not just refuse to buy that product,and put that meat company out of business, because their own government has a vested interest in extracting "special taxes" and kickbacks from that company, and allows them to operate, as long as they pay extra taxes, and bribes to politicians.
But the end users persist in not wanting to buy from those particular companies, because they do not wish to appear to condone slavery.
This makes the Federal government very unhappy, because if the meat companies who pay the largest amount of taxes, not to mention private graft, are ruined, than they themselves will suffer not only the loss of all that money, but also the loss of power, against both the people and the meat company.
What is to be done?
It has already been universally accepted(in the north) and forgotten,that the red skinned indigenous peoples were not really considered fully human, and may be mistreated as a matter of course, but since they had been mostly eliminated in the North Eastern states(through genocide) and contributed little to federal coffers, their plight was not popular.
Meanwhile, in the Southern States, the vast majority of the population did not own slaves.
They were not amused when the Northern states aligned with the Federal governments "fix", and decided to assess extra taxes on all of them, to assuage the outraged Northern States newfound humanitarian sensibilities against the meat packing companies, by punishing the Southern States with more taxes.
I could go on, but the gist is obvious....
And history is again repeating itself.
Several large companies, and many small ones, are operating by paying graft money to the Federal government, for employing slaves.
The Feds like the money, and won't do anything to stop it, and there will eventually be another war, initiated by the people,for the people, and against each other.
All in the name of fighting against the Federal government.
Sigh....