On: Seeing America by train

[giaour]

> "the subjugation of indigenous people" in the American west began long before the transcontinental railroad

So did "empire building" and "westward expansion," but those assertions don't seem to have bothered you despite suffering from the same deficiency in the same sentence.

[timr → giaour]

Indeed. I didn't specifically call out every incorrect thing in the sentence, and chose only one. Westward expansion and empire building both existed for even longer before railroads existed. Touché.

[giaour → timr]

I see, good to know you weren't looking to make the political point you expressed above but merely wanted to be technically correct.