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And Tasmanians, and Native Americans, and Indians, and Kenyans, and Irish...
There's an Australian Canadian co-production that goes into some of the atrocities the British got into:
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They needed an inquiry for this? If the British showed up, they tried to genocide, that’s just what they do
If the British showed up, they tried to genocide, that’s just what they do
I mean only if it's non-white people. They've helped white people out sometimes - of course only when it's aligned with their interests.
That's absolutely not the case, you do a disservice to yourself if you don't spend some time to learn more about the history of British aggression against other white people groups.
The British literally helped my extremely white people gain independence. They don't always genocide white people is what I meant. They only sometimes genocide white people. They always genocide non-white people.
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And here I thought folks just let the Brits displace them because they're so nice!
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If this inquiry has no power to actually do anything about this finding, I’m not sure I understand the point.
Anyone who ever read a history book already knows about the multiple genocides. The issue is what happens now?
for the same reason that everyone is entitled to due process even when things are incredibly obvious… it’s important to follow a process, to document formally, etc
I guess the point would be for everyone involved to say "never again" and if someone quotes Hitler they should not win elections.
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And the American settlers genocided the native Americans. All the western super-powers are built of slaughter, rape and pillage.
You think other empires weren’t. No slaves in Russia, Persia or china. Rest of the world was peaceful and dainty.
How about the americas pre Columbus. Do you think they were peaceful and had not slaves.
I mean, idk about the Aztecs but the Incas didn't. But regardless, chattel slavery is a purely Western creation and for at least two millennia the European man has been the main source of grief and destruction in the world. Idc if you refute it, I understand why you would, but it's neither productive nor honest.
Your “I don’t know” and your “I don’t care” pretty much sum up you grasp of history
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My dude, pretty much all countries have been founded by genocidal settlers.
Problem is that some of them can't get past it and keep being genocidal settlers.
Well, once you've had your country invaded by rabid psychopaths, there's bound to be some gene admixture (to put that far too mildly) and so you've a chance that their descendents, even if it's recessive and rare, will have the desire go on to do the same.
Of course, rabid psychopathy and the urge to invade other places can also come about on its own, but when you look at the way the Vikings and their Germanic cousins invaded western Europe a thousand years or so ago, and then note what happened a few hundred years later, it has to make you wonder whether it might have only happened the once.
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What a shocker! The British are bad people?!
Were, anyway.
Now come on, I'm sure plenty still are.
That's a pretty small list tbh. Should be 0, but at least it's not half of Africa and Asia anymore.
Do you think it's because the Anglo-Saxon man is slowly but surely gaining in humanity or because their relative power diminishes with every passing year? God willing it's both, but we know that at least the latter is true...
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Yeah, they had a change of heart when they decided to abandon colonies.