Still, you’re right. The apple orchard land seized at considerable cost to the government from the Nez Perces does roughly compare to the orange grove land seized from the Seminoles at an equally considerable cost in the 19th century.

And in any case, what you call a “double standard” is simply apples and oranges.

And of course, that was just the first war on the natives against the local population — King Phillip’s War two generations later was also led by the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth.

Still qualifies as a tradition of double standards in my book, since sexual indiscretion received harsh punishment but violence was justifiable and even blessed in their worldview.

That’s not wholesale, it’s retail. The truth is that American Indian populations in the Northeast had already been reduced 90% by the time the Puritans arrived thanks to diseases introduced by French traders, some spread by sexual contact.

Oops.

Consider also the rating system for hollywood movies:

If naked breasts are being fondled, it gets an “NC-17″ rating (just below “X” rating).

If naked breasts are being slashed and stabbed by a homicidal maniac, it gets an “R” rating (less restrictive than NC-17).

The message is clear. Eroticism is extremely dangerous – more so than knife-wielding maniacs.

The videos are at
http://www.thefamilygp.com/self

So now our kids can watch gangsters “bigging” themselves up but can’t learn how to look after themselves.

See also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/21/propaganda_video/
for a sort of violence which might not be ok for American censors.

Mexican gang war snuff films appear to be getting pulled from the site after some attention earlier this month. fwiw

The best summarized representation of the “American Attitude”

Kudos.

“The Pequot War was an armed conflict in 1637 between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies, with American Indian allies (the Narragansett, and Mohegan Indians), against the Pequot Indians. This war saw the elimination of the Pequot as a viable polity in what is present-day southern New England.

Hundreds were killed; hundreds more were captured and sold into slavery to the West Indies.”