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Originally Posted by nomadking
So no other countries had empires? Did history not exist before the British Empire arrived. Still intended to be highly selective and anti-White British.
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Why is teaching about our country's past "anti-White British"?
What other countries did at the time is orthogonal to what we did. If our neighbours invaded countries while we did, does that excuse us doing it?
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Originally Posted by Chris
But Italy is the successor state  Obviously the argument is a reductio ad absurdum but the question perhaps is, where do you stop? At what point do we stop being culpable for the actions of our ancestors? And if we’re not culpable, what does an apology achieve? |
Italy was not the "successor" state. There were many intermediate entities e.g. the Ostrogoths, the City States (Milan, Florence, Pisa, Siena, Genoa, Ferrara, Mantua, Verona and Venice), the Duchy of Tuscany, the Papal States, etc.
In contrast, the UK of Georgian and Victorian periods has direct lineage in terms of governance, continuity & ownership to the UK of today. There is a world of difference between the two examples.