> Perfectly acceptable at the time… <
Yes. Everyone must be judged within context of their times. Here’s an example conservatives might want to share with their liberal acquaintances.
Martin Luther King was a great man. He patiently tried to heal the racial device. But he thought that homosexuality was a mental disorder. And he advised homosexuals to see a psychiatrist.
That kind of thinking just won’t fly today. So should MLK be cancelled, and be erased from history? Or should he be judged within the context of his times?
King was a great man? King plagiarized most of his writings including his Doctoral thesis and he was a whore monger, a serial adulterer and enjoyed beating the white prostitutes he hired on top of being a marxist...
“Martin Luther King was a great man. He patiently tried to heal the racial device.”
MLK Jr cheated on his dissertation and his wife.
Was he heroic in some ways? Yes. But a great man? I’m not so sure. I think if he lived he would have ended up like Jesse Jackson.