Another racist at National Review: "The world was better under colonialism"

[zerozero]

that's funny cause I do that all the time

how? If we're in a fight and one of us hits another, we can't just say, well, what happened was X hit Y.. what actually happened is X and Y were in a fight/standoff and then the physical action happened

there is no action without an idea precipitating it

 

[daze23]

how? If we're in a fight and one of us hits another, we can't just say, well, what happened was X hit Y.. what actually happened is X and Y were in a fight/standoff and then the physical action happened

there is no action without an idea precipitating it

you just can't let one sully the other. it seems like some sort of ad hominem

 

[zerozero]

you just can't let one sully the other. it seems like some sort of ad hominem

well I await your discovery of one group of people forcefully politically subjugating another without declaring superiority to them

 

[The War Report]

Since when has invading other people's land ever a good thing?

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Race is inherent in colonialism of course but my problem with arguments like this is more about the basic illegitimacy of transnational unrepresentative political power. What fukking right? What right? What right did the Brits & co have to take over these countries and run extractive empires? None!

So my my concern with this type of thing is based less on racial stuff than on the basic immorality of the proposed idea

 

[zerozero]

am I supposed to 'get' something from that pic, Vic?

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

am I supposed to 'get' something from that pic, Vic?

I figured you knew who it was.

 

[zerozero]

yeah I recognized his name from seeing the filename but not sure what your point was by juxtaposing my comment with his pic

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

yeah I recognized his name from seeing the filename but not sure what your point was by juxtaposing my comment with his pic

He would take issue with your comments about colonialism. Two cheers for colonialism - SFGate I was just fukking with you.

 

[zerozero]

lol yeah that dude is an idiot

 

[Pool_Shark]

No one seems to give a shyt about what Belgium under King Leopold did to the Congo. I didn't even learn about it until I read about it when I was about 21. They killed 10 MILLION PEOPLE. That is a holocaust of epic proportions. Nobody even knows it happened.

Good post heres a link about it I just read, was real informative.


King Leopold II and the Congo - eNotes.com

 

[zerozero]

Good post heres a link about it I just read, was real informative.


King Leopold II and the Congo - eNotes.com

. A detachment of soldiers would march into an African village and seize the women as hostages. To secure their wives' release, the men would have to disperse into the rain forest to collect the sap of wild rubber vines.

 

[88m3]

Are we going to act like there weren't great aspects of colonalism?

 

[daze23]

here we are, speaking english...

 

[Tesseract]

Are we going to act like there weren't great aspects of colonalism?

Black unemployment was practically non-existent...