It doesn't need defending, no. But like any other historical event, it does deserve to be more comprehensively understood.
A lot of the worst episodes in history happened because people oversimplified things. It's one of the reasons to study history in the first place - to break one's self of the habit of doing that.
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Date: 2005-05-25 11:07 pm (UTC)A lot of the worst episodes in history happened because people oversimplified things. It's one of the reasons to study history in the first place - to break one's self of the habit of doing that.