Imagine unironically pretending the British Empire had no part in creating those victims or the institution of colonial slavery.
You should read more Kipling, so you can see the soul of Britain call Indians dirty n-words in between talking about the white man’s burden.
Or the first true English novel, Robinson Crusoe, which spends half of it arguing how superior and profitable British chattel slavery is to Spanish genocide.
Fun Fact: a recent academic trend has made certain scholars note that within The Tempest, Prospero actually has more on common with the natives of the Americas than British colonizers, as opposed to previous thought/fact linking Caliban to the Caribs. It’s actually pretty interesting reading, and a good reminder that the British slave trade system lasted so long that Shakespeare might have inserted political commentary about it into his plays.
Allthough the trans Atlantic slave trade was alive at the time the British invaded Australia we were primarily a prison colony which provided sufficient cheap labour. The abolishionists had more or less won by the time land owners were looking for African slaves and they found alternatives such as indentured Pacific islanders or indigenous people.
The colonial era was very shitty. Fuck the Belgians in particular. Also the Dutch, French, Spanish, and not least the English. The Japanese empire is not fondly remembered either. Nor Russia who never stopped.
The US was always a bit odd in the modern era. There were WWII riots in England, New Zealand and Australia which started with how badly the US treated African American soldiers which is something considering the history of all our countries. The US has a mixed reputation so it is always interesting when they preach to us.
It’s also entertaining when they reject any well intentioned criticism of their society even while it is collapsing. Good luck with that.
Said the hypocrite squatting on his own continent sized aboriginal burial ground with an ongoing genocide that only started ramping down in 1970 and getting upset about “well intentioned criticism.”
Imagine unironically pretending the British Empire had no part in creating those victims or the institution of colonial slavery.
You should read more Kipling, so you can see the soul of Britain call Indians dirty n-words in between talking about the white man’s burden.
Or the first true English novel, Robinson Crusoe, which spends half of it arguing how superior and profitable British chattel slavery is to Spanish genocide.
Fun Fact: a recent academic trend has made certain scholars note that within The Tempest, Prospero actually has more on common with the natives of the Americas than British colonizers, as opposed to previous thought/fact linking Caliban to the Caribs. It’s actually pretty interesting reading, and a good reminder that the British slave trade system lasted so long that Shakespeare might have inserted political commentary about it into his plays.
Allthough the trans Atlantic slave trade was alive at the time the British invaded Australia we were primarily a prison colony which provided sufficient cheap labour. The abolishionists had more or less won by the time land owners were looking for African slaves and they found alternatives such as indentured Pacific islanders or indigenous people.
The colonial era was very shitty. Fuck the Belgians in particular. Also the Dutch, French, Spanish, and not least the English. The Japanese empire is not fondly remembered either. Nor Russia who never stopped.
The US was always a bit odd in the modern era. There were WWII riots in England, New Zealand and Australia which started with how badly the US treated African American soldiers which is something considering the history of all our countries. The US has a mixed reputation so it is always interesting when they preach to us.
It’s also entertaining when they reject any well intentioned criticism of their society even while it is collapsing. Good luck with that.
Said the hypocrite squatting on his own continent sized aboriginal burial ground with an ongoing genocide that only started ramping down in 1970 and getting upset about “well intentioned criticism.”