History is about facts, not feeling. How bad it makes someone feel is irrelevant. Pretending that things were different to make someone feel better is wrong, in the same way as making someone pay for their ancestors’ ancestors acts is wrong. We should be able to discuss facts and understand why they happened rather than use history as a tool in an ideological fight.
Empathy is more important in the way History is vulgarised (to avoid glorifying or victimising people who have nothing to do with what happened) than in History itself.
History is about facts, not feeling. How bad it makes someone feel is irrelevant. Pretending that things were different to make someone feel better is wrong, in the same way as making someone pay for their ancestors’ ancestors acts is wrong. We should be able to discuss facts and understand why they happened rather than use history as a tool in an ideological fight.
Empathy is more important in the way History is vulgarised (to avoid glorifying or victimising people who have nothing to do with what happened) than in History itself.