Quote (ChrisKz @ Sep 29 2016 09:28pm)
In this situation I think beowulf is being hypocritical because he condemns one racist more than another simply because one kind stands on his pov while the other doesn't.
The reason you're wrong lies in the lack of a straight line from the old english government to the imperial british government guilty of colonizing the America's and elsewhere. Given the changes between native Brits whom that poem originates from and the later invaders, french, and other factions that would be like saying the communist USSR and current Russian government are the same, when in reality one overturned the other.
your attempt at a slam here is incredibly pathetic. The above doesn't even take into account the widespread use of the tale in other, namely Scandinavian, cultures.
This post was edited by thesnipa on Sep 30 2016 06:09am