Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative

Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative by trabant00 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @07:46AM (#24119318)

> How do you reconcile this altruism with Britain's continued trade with and reliance on goods from the Americas and their continued use of slave labour?

By simply not moving the goal posts.

> so many Westerners keep making these strangely naïve and surface-level readings of history and politics

So they are naive for noticing a good thing in an ocean of evil, and you are keeping it real by thinking that until everything is perfect no progress matters. Got it.

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Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative by filleduchaos on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:26AM (#24119572)

It's not "moving the goal posts" to point out that the "great cost to her interests" was largely nonexistent considering that Britain kept right on benefiting from and funding it under the table - it's simply knowing enough of the history involved to not reason like a small child.

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Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative by trabant00 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:55AM (#24119780)

Keep adding insults to your posts. Makes you right every time.

And for the "benefiting", there's nothing anybody can do that you people won't label as benefiting even if it's 2nd, 3rd or 10th party. All the while posting this on devices produced by workers free only in name with materials from the poorest countries with the most horrible work conditions in their mines.

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Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative by jhardy54 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:24AM (#24120545)

> you people

Yikes.

> All the while posting this on devices produced by workers free only in name with materials from the poorest countries with the most horrible work conditions in their mines.

Sweet, so you're obviously an anti-capitalist too right?

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