Corruption of history

[AussieMick]

It really emphasises the importance of people who care about historical truth questioning everything.

At the risk of bringing up a whole range of side issues ...

"Old King Cole was a Merry Old Soul" ... the image of England's Henry VIII as a jolly old chubby man. Contrast this with him arranging for 2 of his wives to be killed. And the slaughter of thousands of his citizens.

The current film about Mary Queen of Scots. From the reviews (I havent and will not see it) Mary was a "wee" (Scots accent required) heroine and Elizabeth I was an evil old woman who arranged for Mary's death. My thoughts? those times were horrible and monarchs constantly lived under the threat of rebellion and murder ... Elizabeth's mother was judicially killed ... the film seems to be virtue-signalling 'all Scots/Irish rebels were heroes that fought bravely against English aristocratic cheats'. The film includes a negro actor as one of the aristocratic characters ... in the UK in the 1500's ! ... the only reason must be that its 'virtue-signalling'. Yes, I liked Braveheart ... but this is going too far.

The film Vice (maybe I'm pushing my luck here .... again, I havent seen it) ... seems to be anti-Republican propaganda piece aiming to make money out of the virtue-signalling Anti-Trump hysteria current in the world. Unfortunately the result could be millions of impressionable young people having the wrong ideas about events that happened when they were toddlers .