Whilst your point might seem reasonable at face value and there is no doubt Mugabe is indeed a thoroughly nasty piece of work, we cannot simply brush over historically important issues just to support a particular perspective.

If a perspective is based on historically inaccurate foundations, it is then simply a poor argument in the first place.

By allowing this sort of fiction to take hold we then allow our own issues to be obfuscated and derailed.

We are already harvesting the rotten fruit of this particular myth.

That is why it IS important to correct the inaccuracy.