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get that OUT of my face posted:lol if you think that the death of the olds will heal any society Healing society is out of the question, but I'll settle for "get rid of the monarchy."
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Helsing posted:It's grimly fascinating when you realize just how many British atrocities are acknowledged by historians but completely invisible to the public consciousness. People are sort of vaguely aware of the Irish potato famine but all those Indian famines, right up to the midst of World War II, went right down the memory hole. Sure, you can look them up in a few obscure sources or the occasional book published in the left-wing press, and serious historians don't actually deny that they happened, but the amount of selective forgetfulness is astounding. WW2 was a big Lysol wipe over Anglo-American history. Though I have to say post-Iraq war a lot of patriotic hawkish types don't even bother with the moral high ground argument anymore.
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May 2, 2017 23:04
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Fullhouse posted:Dinesh D'Souza is proudly pro-colonialist and spends a big portion of his weird movie about Obama's Dad arguing that much of Asia was better off under the British Empire (including India, where he is from). I'm sure this isn't terribly uncommon among Anglo neocons, theyre still all about the white man's burden This is an established career path in British journalism and academia. The "pro-empire wog" character goes right back to the early Victorian era, D"Souza just plies it on Americans. Plus now we've got the Niall Fergusson "colonialism was wrong, but now that I've got that out of the way let me praise every single thing about it" school too.
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May 3, 2017 01:49
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