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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8323796" data-attributes="member: 6701124"><p>This feels like it's a theme that's dealt with all the time in better westerns (Six Shooter, Gunsmoke, Fort Laramie, Tales of Wells Fargo, etc...). Wild west justice is something you just have to do sometimes and there are plenty of gun fights against bad guys that deserve it -- but lynching folks when there was a marshal or sheriff nearby, or immediately assuming it was the native Americans doing bad based on scant evidence and going all out against an entire tribe in any case, were both portrayed as awful.  And trying to identify the bad guys by ethnicity failed a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>