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I'm not defending them. I've consistently only advocated for more compassion than the binary "hero" and "monster" allows for. Because in a worldview where those are the only options, apparent bigotry and the murder of children isn't considered a problem even 100 years after the fact, as long they were seen to be on the right side.

We need to be able to think on a spectrum of morality, otherwise we're just inviting more horrors into the world that hide in plain sight under the guise of "righteousness".