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Don't ask (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What do you mean don't ask the UK about African interment camps?

Our lovely Tory government spent most of last year proud of trying to deport asylum seekers to fucking Rwanda. Like it was some sort of vote winner.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think it's unfair to suggest that the UK Government doesn't like you asking about African internment camps.

They also don't like you asking about:

the conditions under which refugees are currently housed, give you a clue it kind of rhymes historically with internment camps
Various Indian famines that were caused or exacerbated by colonial rule
role in slave trade. Yes they ended the slave trade... by compensating slave owners. Also started the fucking thing.
That time we basically stole an entire island from its people to put an airbase there.
linked to the internment camps, pretty much anything Churchill did prior to the Second World War and after it also.
the undercover activities of the police investigating environmental groups e.g. having children by the people they were surveilling.

There's probably several pages of this but I've only just woken up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The British Empire once covered over a quarter of the Earth's land area. Even the Mongols never managed that.

And by "once", it's not ancient history. It was 1920.

It's horrifying, and we're almost certainly responsible for more suffering than any other country on Earth, but also kind of impressive. There are just 22 countries we never invaded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We could also blame UK for the existence of USA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Don't look at us, it was the Spanish that found it.

Well, after all those people that were already on it, obviously. But they hardly count. They weren't white. But according to Americans, neither are the Spanish, so...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What about the boers?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

And the Kenyans. The English developed concentration camps in South African and used them in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I mean they were great as footballers but honestly both don't cut it as managers