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I hate opinions like this. It pretends that children are too stupid to understand reality. Children are generally far more intelligent and capable of understanding things than people give them credit for. They just need it to be explained to them.
The reason this is an issue is because it creates this idea that it was mutual, and ingrains a mythos that makes it harder to learn the truth later. Sure, you can coddle them and let them believe everything was happy and peaceful as children, but that's how you end up with adults who believe America doesn't have horrors in its past and we were a pure and moral nation. It creates a conservative ideology where things were perfect before and we shouldn't change or try to fix issues.