The only reason this is an issue is that the Left has made it an issue. I really don't care what a person's ancestors believed or did. I care about what the person himself/herself currently believes and does. But it is worth raising because they should at least be expected to uphold their own standard. Yet they never do. Standards and moral principles are what they expect of others whom they do not deem smart enough to make up their own standard as they go. In their view, it is impossible for them to be hypocritical or inconsistent; that is something only other people who aren't among the elite are capable of doing. In their view, the ends justify the means, but only if they are what they deem to be the proper ends. Only they are intelligent and sophisticated enough to be able to determine what those ends should be. Sounds crazy, I know, but there you have it.