The whole flippin' lot of you miss the point, though, albeit PFR only just.
What happened then happened then. This is about what's happening now. The rights and wrongs of the time are the mores of the time. we should have moved on and learned the lessons of that, but what in fact is happening is that a bunch of fogeys have been unable to get past it and are stuck in a mentally twisted time loop. Worse, they've dug in and won't recognise that in defending that Great Lie, they are perpetrtating a bigger one. When Kipling regretted his jingoistic imperial stance in Common Form, "If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied." he could be exused the benefit of ignorance. Not so now. Let us at least be honest with our children.