On the Concept of Weaponizing History as a Means to Ameliorate Whatever Pathetic Situation that Fate, Foolishness, etc. Has Placed You In (Most Typically In the Guise of More Free Shit)

A few problems with it. a) It's divisive in that it pits one group of citizens against another (fostering resentment, conflict, etc.). b) It's exceedingly arbitrary in that where do you draw the line (the fact that if you go back far enough every group has been oppressed; the Irish by the Brits, the Armenians by the Turks, pretty much everybody by the Romans, etc.)? And c) there's also a soft form of bigotry to it in that it clearly implies a certain level of infantilism (possibly not a word) when it comes to these groups. Unfortunately the politicians love to pander and so we can probably expect even more of this bullshit in the future - this as the cities burn, I fear.