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Originally Posted by k9fancier
So, I am so curious given the literate population of this site, from a purely moral perspective, what is this knee jerk use of the term?
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Because it's been abused many times, and especially in whitewashing books written in the past by now-dead authors. Also in making allegedly historical movies while disregarding any historical veracity re racial makeup, mindset and societal norms of the time depicted. All this is extremely annoying. You can't change history by pretending it didn't exist. Moreover, you can't even learn from past mistakes if you pretend they didn't happen.