The truth of either illustration is wholly beyond the point; if you have a problem with the point you might as well limit yourself to that rather then take the view that anecdotes need to be refuted.
When I read about the frog I suspend scientific analysis of the frog long enough to get the anecdote. When I read the whipping story I think wow British people are so racist, so disconnected from reality, and so stupid they believe that the people they subjugated in their land are such natural slaves that when not crushed under a British heel they pay to be likewise abused in their own lands.
If you wanted to simultaneously smear the modern Brit and the modern American you could do no better than to let Michael Munger talk.
But don't take my word for it: https://archive-srel.uga.edu/outreach/ecoviews/ecoview071223...