I was with you till here.
In certain contexts and certain places, dissenting opinion is thrown out kicking and screaming. Most of the time it has nothing to do with PC, sometimes it does. But more often than not, I have seen the “political correctness gone mad” thing being kicked around as a cover for people’s bad behavior. You say or do something horrible, like chanting “the Jews will not replace us” in an open setting, it isn’t censorship or political correctness for you to catch flak for it. I say this as someone who has been inadverdently called a sexist apologist on This Very Forum for supporting the right of an author to write what they want, mostly because I don’t want what happened to Vendetta to happen to other authors.
Statues of historical adversaries who promoted inhuman practices. You don’t see very many statues of Emperor Showa in Hawaii or China, do you?
I dislike the term “Viking” as a catch-all for the Norse and North Germanic raiding cultures. Especially since not all were created equally. The Anglo-Saxons allowed all peasants to own property, including women and thralls. The Normans and Carolingians, their contemporaries, were far less progressive by comparison.
Thst said, I have never gotten too hung up on historical accuracy unless that’s the most major point of the game (which applies to very few games, really).