softcat

You've chosen an indefensible position, that's all. Try to learn from it, and you can do better next time.

Not just a violent and bloody history, but a culture as well, which lead to that history. As to all Europeans being unwilling to deny it, that's hardly convincing given multiple recent decades of fueling and supplying armed conflicts, often needlessly.

I'm well aware of the US attitude towards censorship. My point is about the double standard towards violence and a history of it existing in cultures. It's hardly exclusive to the Americans, and quite European if anything. You can't boldly declare yourself to be "culture" itself and expect to be taken seriously without actually examining those cultures.

"Horrible deplorable violence is only wrong when boors and barbarians do it, not us enlightened beings who seek only peace and nudity".

How arrogant to think your previous centuries don't offer a culture of violence.