Not at all. I’m saying that the trick to history is learning from it. This isn’t about the sensibilities of the stupid, it’s about context and education. For example in the Imperial War Museum, there’s an entire section dedicated to the Holocaust — one of the exhibits is a surgery table that was taken from Belsen, an item of furniture that always makes me feel unnerved. I know that this was the table on which Jewish children and the disabled were euthanised.

It could’ve gone in the river…. but that would mean forgetting what happened. Perhaps there’s the odd Neo-Nazi that gets semi-aroused from seeing such an item, but it’s nothing compared with the hundreds of thousands of people who register an emotive feeling of disgust at such a thing. A visceral experience that screams ‘never again’ in a way that a thousand text books can’t.

Sometimes the sensibilities of the stupid are the right thing, for all the wrong reasons. Thanks for your comment, it’s an interesting debate to have… but that’s the point, it’s a debate for society to have not a fait accompli presented by the loudest voices.