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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trollwad" data-source="post: 1697145" data-attributes="member: 19187">"Personally, I'm unable to romantisize the west when I know that a bunch of Native Americans were killed because of the crime of having something that we wanted. And that a lot of Chinese died building the railroad. And that Manifest Destiny made life hell for a lot of Mexicans. And so on...But, yes. The stories of the American West was an American mythology that gripped the whole world for a time. And now, it has been replaced by...what?"Then you must be unable to romantacize the medieval/fantasy era as well when muslims went on the jihad, mongols swept across the world, and europe engaged in the reconquista, crusades in the baltic and the middle east.  In addition, I didnt realize that the fantasy game boot hill was responsible for those 'problems'Evidently the new american mythology is political correctness.  Which says something like, unlike every other civilization that has existed on the Planet, Americans must constantly cry about the wrongs in our past, most of which were far more moderate than in other situations.  E.G. the US and England had slavery or were involved in the slave trade but unlike every other African and Islamic civilization with slavery, Anglo-American civilization not only was one of the few civilizations to ever give up slavery of its own volition, but it then stopped the slave trade and forced/encouraged african and islamic slave societies to give up slavery.  It is instructive that virtually the first thing that the Mahdi's followers did when the ejected the British in about 1880 was to restart the slave trade and begin enslaving black africans.</blockquote>

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