yhwx said:
I think it’s OK to judge the actions of a previous generation based on our modern yardstick. Isn’t that the whole point of history?
Every historian (worth a damn) would disagree with you. Martin Luther King, Jr. (by your standards) was a wretched, philandering, transphobic bigot. That’s the result of your distortion of history by applying today’s morality to past generations.