Genie, of course history should be discussed about - if I thought otherwise I would not do it so often myself. Discussions can be controversial and even emotional. But hatred is an emotion reserved to present conditions. Therefore, in our case, I think the objects are not The Beatles, but phenomena in our current media.

Ethnic hatred is often based on undigested bits of ancient history, wrongly projected to current grievances. Fortunately, this thread is not meant that seriously.