Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
No, we were just a lot less racist. The only time we have ever had any form of racial segregation in the UK was during WWII to prevent fights between White American servicemen and everyone else. Let me spell that out for you:

Black G.I. orders pint in pub, white G.I. tells him to get out, barman throws White G.I. into street.

Not to say we had no racist here, but with very few exceptions all his majesty's common subjects were equal before the law.
Washington. George Washington. 18th century, not 20th.

Also, listen to Strike if you don't believe me.
No can't do. He's on my ignore list.

Did I say that? I said Washington was a traitor to his King, I didn't pass judgement on that fact.
You're certainly portraying it as Washington's character flaw.

As it is, I feel the reaction of the Continental Congress was.... excessive, but King George was having one of his funny turns and his ministers lacked His Majesty's common touch. If George III had been in better health perhaps he would have made a trip to the Colonies to see for himself, and the war would have been avoided.
Either way, what's done is done.

Washington did those things in Virginia before the war, and later during. If he was a model American soldier and statesman he has a lot to answer for.
What he did wasn't anything out of the ordinary. It is kinda ridiculous to hold him up to today's moral standards. Besides, Indians were far from peaceful towards Whites. Mostly because there was about zero level of understanding of one another's culture and viewpoints, but in the end it was a mutual war of extermination. Colonists were simply better at it.

Compare the treatment ofNative Americans in Canada and the US - at least the Candaian authorities had the courtesy to sign intollerable treaties the Natives had to break, rather than break the treaties themselves.
i.e. they weren't any better.


So what? A Yeoman Officer in England wasn't either.
And I salute him for his resolve and loyalty that compel him to bend his back and properly serve his betters. Meanwhile, those New World rascals had other ideas.