Goes both ways. Just as we have to accept that times were harder back then, we also have to accept that lot of "oppression history" is completely manufactured, like anecdotes about slavery and concentration camps.
Also, there's a tendency to focus on extreme events and give a false impression of them being frequent.
I completely get that and agree. The wild west simply never was.
That said, I do not believe my characterization is misleading.
Fair enough.
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