Happy Independence Day

**Meneldil** · 03-15-2010, 12:49

Originally Posted by Snite

I'm not being racist, or a xenophobe, and I'm not being self-reliant, I just happen to have more first-hand resources than some dude on an island really far away drinking his damn tea. You came in here saying there was mass expulsion and now you're changing your words around to match mine and SFTS so I'm not gonna bother reading the links cuz now all of a sudden what your'e saying and what we're saying matches.

There seems to be a movement in our modern times to sully history. "HEY LOOK! THIS WELL-KNOWN HERO WAS REALLY NOT THAT GREAT A GUY!!!" Were there ethnic tensions? Yes. Were they unavoidable? No. You can't take your twenty-first century mind and try to plant it in a 1 18th-19th century person's head. They were of a vastly different mindeset. We're talking about a time when many people actually considered the Irish to be sub-human. Whites hating whites. It's unavoidable for any history scholar and it's something I've never shied away from and am willing to admit: yes, there was racism in Texas. But don't come in here trying to degrade us by saying we were genocidal maniacs. You want a maniac you can make one right here, but I'll represent no one but myself.

Haha, way to encourage a calm, open-minded and honest discussion about history. Maybe you should contact Krook and open a club with him :)