XPost: alt.unix.geeks
From: bowman@montana.com

On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 19:51:44 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    Someone else suggested 'Germanic' ... but that may just be a random
>    association based on 'how it sounds'. Besides, the US founders did
>    not LIKE the Germans - they were mercenaries for the Redcoats, and
>    pretty nasty too.

The first German language newspaper in the colonies was published by Ben
Franklin.

'Germany' didn't exist until the 19th century. 'Dutch' was the blanket
term, as in Pennsylvania Dutch or the entire colony of New Netherland so
there were plenty of what would now be called Germans before the Hessian
mercenaries. They had no reason to love the Brits. They weren't so much
loyalists as thinking along the lines of the Gibson character in 'The
Patriot'.

Is it better to have one tyrant a thousand miles away or a thousand
tyrants one mile away?

Franklin's paper failed which did set the old pervert against Germans.

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