There's worse: in the town "Issy Les Moulineaux", they made some kind of AI assistant called "issyGPT" which, in french sounds exactly like "here I farted".

When i took archeology they made us read the Conquest of new Spain by Bernal Diaz basically a narrative of his time as a conquistador, and even accepting he's an unreliable narrator his marvel at the Americas turns to racist hate the second they find gold

Lafayette was not just asking this question because he could see slaves in front of him but also because he was part of a global intellectual and political movement in opposition to slavery. Washington was not unaware of this, he was simply on the opposing side of that particular struggle