Part of the problem is that the politics of personal identity and its successors such as CRT, Feminist Theory and Queer Theory and more all divide the world into good guys and bad guys. For many academics from their modern perch, and knowing little about the past, insist on passing moral and even practical judgement on people of the past. They also like to ignore who really helped change the world in a direction more to their liking.
Part of the problem is that the politics of personal identity and its successors such as CRT, Feminist Theory and Queer Theory and more all divide the world into good guys and bad guys. For many academics from their modern perch, and knowing little about the past, insist on passing moral and even practical judgement on people of the past. They also like to ignore who really helped change the world in a direction more to their liking.