It seems to me that if anyone is "whitewashing", it's this group.
History is what it is.
Most if not all wealthy Southern landowners held slaves, as has been pointed out numerous times.
European countries ruthlessly exploited the "new world" territories discovered even as many of the indiginous tribes exhibited their own forms of brutality, such as human sacrifice.
Do we stop admiring Jefferson or Columbus or the Native Americans because of it?
Of course not.
But many on the left insist we do (except it is ok to admire the indians because they aren't white).
Seriously, I am tired of this freudian exercise in self loathing.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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