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Wakanda is mythical, but it lacks the problematic history rewrite required to make the forthcoming Viola Davis-starring “The Woman King” and its lionizing of a kingdom built on the slave trade palatable.

Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the SS before he could be freed by Allied troops, is lionized in American churches, and his letters from prison became standard reading in Bible studies.

The Argentine poor whom Eva Perón lionized as the country’s heart and soul largely stayed home in a stinging rebuke to the Peronist movement that has dominated politics here for 80 years.

As conservatives lionize Kirk as a warrior for free expression, they’re also weaponizing the tactics they saw being used to malign their movement — calls for firings, ostracism, pressure to watch what you say.

I know he wouldn’t have been lionized the way he is today.