What is more horrible than an imperialist?
A condescending 1st year university student multiculturalist.
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people dislike me when they realize i have imperialist views and im a college student as well among english literature majors, lets just say i wont be winning any popularity contests.
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A Communist, a Theocrat and a National Socialist.
The British Empire should be remembered for being the first Empire to end slavery of it's own will, and will be remembered for how it gave back it's possessions rather than how it took them.
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The British Empire should be remembered for being the first Empire to end slavery of it's own will, and will be remembered for how it gave back it's possessions rather than how it took them.
There'll be no fond rememberances until they travel the final mile and finally let go of No. Ireland.
People believe what they want to believe. One term for this is Faith. Another is Delusion.
They'd be happy to. It's the Ulstermen who don't want to be given back.
shareThe British Empire should be remembered for being the first Empire to end slavery of it's own will...
The French revolutionists abolished slavery well before Britain did... In fact, the Revolutionaries abolished racial discrimination, period.
And Napoleon did away with all anti-Jewish laws in the French Empire fifty years before a Jew was even allowed to set foot in Parliament.
The great British Empire was more than happy to let Austrians, Russians and Prussians die in the hundreds of thousands just so the U.K. could perpetuate its illegal hegemony over oceanic trade.
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"... the Revolutionaries abolished racial discrimination, period."
Indeed. They were "equal opportunity" executioners.
"... illegal hegemony over oceanic trade."
We should all be thankful, at least, they were unable to locate the international statutes which would have made their oceanic hegemony -- "legal". I mean, if they had only known they had broken the law, well -- there might have been hell to pay, and we could have demanded an apology!
The U.S. declaring war against Britain in 1812 over the illegal seizure of American ships and the impressment of American sailors was, in a very real sense, a "demand for an apology".
Send her to the snakes!
Perhaps . . . but isn't that a little like saying the U.S. would have been satisfied after Pearl Harbor, had the Japanese wired FDR saying - "Oops, sorry, just kiddin'."?
shareThe French revolutionists abolished slavery well before Britain did...And in 1802, restored it. Slavery wasn't abolished in the French empire until 1848 - some fifteen yrars after the British did.
rians, Russians and Prussians die in the hundreds of thousands just so the U.K. could perpetuate its illegal hegemony over oceanic trade.
Utter nonsense. The British blockade did not significantly affect food imports at that time, unlike 1914-18 and 1939-45. As the bockade itself, such things have always been a normal part of wars. The RN just happened to be better at it than the French Navy. share
I'd say the history of empire, slavery, illegal drug, weapons and slave trading is not well know or admitted to in the West. The person to read on some of this is Noam Chomsky who may have other flaws or prejudices, but can relates history very well. All of these countries were horribly brutal and the world today is very much affected by what happened, and they are also not about to give up a bit of it.
It would be like a criminal going over to his neighbor's house and making off with everything of value having killed one or two of his neighbors, and then stalling and lying for years because he has favor with the judge, and keeping all the valuables, and ignoring any damage done ... and propagated through time.
A good movie ... documentary ... that shows a bit of this is "The End of Poverty" narrated by Martin Sheen.
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That is what is way worse.