Quote Originally Posted by Dawg61 View Post
Sorry you don't understand why I, a white male from the South, doesn't watch movies depicting white males from the South as the racist bad guy. This genre plants seeds in the minds of people everywhere that white males from the South are racist. So I don't watch them. How well do World War II movies depicting Germany as evil sell in Germany? Well…for Germany at that time….they kind of have a point.
I am also a white male from the South. However, I in no way identify with salve owners any more than someone from Maine would, so I see no reason to approach it this way.

If you're worried about it 'planting seeds' in people's minds, then you're really just trying to erase history because it did happen. I think there are still things to learn from it, and it's important to know what happened. Pretending it never did does no one any good.

I have no idea what movies sell in Germany. But if Germans are trying to ignore their history, then that is not a good approach. I certainly don't watch any movies about WWII and then assume all current Germans are violent anti-Semites because I'm not dumb. Caring about the opinions of dumb people won't get you very far.