This is an old post, but I want to dunk on this idea because I've heard it in real life.

The common sense:

"...that barbarous and hellish power which hath stirred up Indians and Negroes to destroy us." — Thomas Paine, Common Sense

  • HamManBad [he/him]
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    21 hours ago

    The barbarous and hellish power is the British empire, the full context of the quote is far more anti-British than anti-"Indians and negros". It's basically saying "the empire is stoking ethnic divisions in the colonies to maintain dominance over them" but the wording is, perhaps, a bit problematic. Also, Hexbear is always going to be more sympathetic to the pro-British black and indigenous communities than Paine had been, for obvious reasons.