Conventional history deals with things that are actually true, not with things that fit the narrative you prefer. There was no systematic extermination in American history (at least not until 1974). European settlers in the New World did not invent slavery, instead, they fought a great crusade to end it. There is a great deal to celebrate about the colonization of the new world and the creation of the new nations here. The narrative you are telling about American history was basically invented in the 20th century to fit the Marxist vision of history as perpetual war between oppressor and oppressed. We would not use the term "politically correct" to describe it if it were actually "correct".
Wow. Wow. Wow. Is that really your dodge? "Well, we didn't invent it!"
We did it. It is our job to fairly and accurately represent our history. Guess what? The facts are clear as fucking day: We. Imported. Black. People. We. Enslaved. Natives. There is no dodge to that. There is no escaping that. There is only acknowledgement of it. This is not "narrative", we have the receipts.
And omitting it in a "historical" game in favor of heroification is unforgivable.
You've thrown me for a loop here. I thought your complaint was that the game glorified oppression of the Indians, slavery, etc, and that we should all feel guilty for enjoying it. Instead, you seem to be saying that the game omits slavery, and that we should all feel guilty for playing a game that doesn't glorify it.
Look: We did not enslave anyone. Slavery is not among the things that we celebrate about the colonization of the new world. We celebrate the brave explorers who sailed off into the unknown, and the Pilgrims who left the safety of home to build a "city on a hill". We celebrate the poor and outcast who took the risk of building their own businesses and farms so they could pass on a better life to their posterity. We celebrate colonists who found out how to govern themselves as equals, and ultimately charted their own courses as free men. This is what the game was about.
Slave-based agriculture existed at that time, and it spread to the Americas, but it was not the "big idea" of colonization, it was not invented in that era and it was not characteristic of it. It's just a fact of human nature: in every time, in every place, there have always been Democrats.
