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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
... not to mention the Arabs who don't give a fig about anyone else, especially infidels.
ianch is so damn woke that he can't take a common sense view. The past is the past and it is the present and future that matters.
Btw, just to put the proverbial spanner into ianch's works, places like Zimbabwe, dare I say, Kenya, Rwanda and similar ilk would thrive if they were under benevolent British administration. Of course they wouldn't stand for it - the leaders would be deprived of their corrupt gains.
In ianch's world, all statues of people deemed to have been connected with past practices that are deprecated by the woke lot, will be torn down; the Queen's head would have to come off stamps because here grandfather was an arch colonialist.
We have bigger problems to face like how long it will take at present ethnic birth rates before we all have to face east. Start worrying.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1665803...ports-guardian
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I think your use of your new favourite insult is getting tiresome. Your labeling of a complex issue by a trite pejorative is lazy to say the least. The word is used to shut down debate and to misdirect.
The fact that you, I assume with a straight face, suggest a new "benevolent British administration" for Kenya, etc. betrays a rose tinted view of the Empire where you focus exclusively on the perceived positives and ignore all of the negatives. That is the essence of British Exceptionalism I suppose.
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Originally Posted by Damien
Although in the context of people talking of 'wokeness' it was the loud minority who started to change things eventually. Whether it's the abolitionists, suffragettes or labour (small l) movements.
Doesn't mean 'woke' people are always right, use the right tactics or even achieve those things quickly but the progress we have made so far wasn't achieved by accepting things as they were.
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You are so right. It also wasn't progressed by accepting that invasion, subjugation and exploitation was "the way the world operated"