As a society, America has allowed this to happen. We turned Nazis and Communists into video game villains and characters in Hollywood comedies. Despite all the film and photographic evidence we have, we chose not to show our children the true horrors of the Holocaust or the state-sanctioned murders perpetrated by the Soviet Union, so the children grew up thinking everything was a joke. They share jokes about throwing Jews in ovens. Kids have even laughed at the deaths of 3,000 people on 9/11 directly to my face.
Really it was happening even before video games. As a country, the USA shat all over the native Americans already living here. While we didn't make them slaves, we forced them off their land and marched them to reservations far away in some cases. A lot of them died.
I see the current protesters pulling down Confederate statues while the police and city stand by watching, I guess because they feel it is justified, but I wonder that the native Americans should have a similar right to pull down the Washington Monument.
I'm both white and Native (like many white trash), so I get kind of annoyed by the paternalistic attitude of the modern ultra-left wingers that white people came along and slaughtered the peaceful hippy tree-hugging Natives and then exterminated them and stole all their land because obviously white people are the Devil incarnate. The reality (at least in my little area of the country) was that Natives and white people fought with each other and killed each other because people are human beings who do both good and bad things. Hell, the worst slaughters of the tribe I'm descended from were perpetrated not by whites but by a rival tribe. My Native ancestors absolutely were guilty of killing women and children and stealing and destroying the property of white settlers. The whites did the same since they certainly weren't saints, but they also didn't deserve to be murdered.
Historically, the fighting eventually stopped and everybody intermarried and that was the end of the situation, which just goes to show you that war is stupid and people fall in love all the time.
Today, Americans seem to have the attitude that this group of people have their culture and these other people have their culture and never should the two cross or connect, which blows my fucking mind because if people had had that attitude in the past then I wouldn't even exist. We seem to have lost the ability to see the humanity in each other and instead we see separate identities which are all isolated from each other with labels of either oppressor or oppressed increasing in intensity as we go along. I hear that this concept is called "intersectionality" or the "Victimhood Olympics". Whoever is the most aggrieved gets the gold medal.
We have lost a grown-up understanding of history which is that both good and bad things happened in the past and nobody is free from sin (except for Christ according to my religion.) We need to stop blaming everybody for our problems and look for solutions together as a people.
Up on Hillbilly Mountain, everybody is offended that old industries have become obsolete and they aren't getting new jobs handed to them on a silver platter, but they are completely unwilling to get educated and learn new skills or start their own businesses or take advantage of the miracles of technology that exist in the 21st century. They fall into the trap of thinking that they have no agency and the only way to advance oneself is to demand things from other people. This is a self-defeating and destructive attitude for anybody to have.
People advance themselves by taking charge of their lives and making the changes that will lead to success. The White Supremacists in Virginia are like little children demanding that others should "give me this" or "give me that". Crying because the world is changing and they are too cowardly or weak to change with it. We are right to be disgusted by their childish antics and their fear that they project as fury. What a pathetic group of losers.