England's Upper Classes – A Dangerous Cult

Re:England's Upper Classes – A Dangerous Cult by thwoeru23434 on Friday July 30, 2021 @04:20AM (#28005710)

A lot of these 'elites' were minted from 'lowly born' savages who went onto India and basically looted temples and murdered the natives there. There were quite a few money-minded gold-digging brides even sailing all the way to India in order to find themselves a rich groom.

Robert Clive is a classic example, whose family is still auctioning off the loot he carried back home.

I'm not surprised that the article fails to mention this - it's taught in the West that colonialism in India was benign, that we welcomed it, that we need 'more colonialism'. Plenty of can-confirm-iam-indian folk will even attest to this (as has been the case in the 1000 y history of India's colonization).

Little wonder hate and discrimination against Hindus is so normalized and even seen as the 'righteous' thing to do.

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Re:England's Upper Classes – A Dangerous Cult by Reason077 on Friday July 30, 2021 @04:27AM (#28005754)

> “it's taught in the West that colonialism in India was benign, that we welcomed it”

It was certainly not taught/presented this way when I went to school, in the 1990s.

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Re:England's Upper Classes – A Dangerous Cult by Veen on Friday July 30, 2021 @04:59AM (#28005932)

This is true, but those people, who were sneerlingly referred to as "nabobs", were despised by the traditional aristocracy. Plus, the Raj is not considered benign in the UK educational system and Hindus are by far the most successful immigrant group in the country.

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