Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF
by parthdesai on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:11AM
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Yeah, but we are talking about India under british empire. Not Rwanda and Haiti. Since you're so oblivious of what the british empire did, here's a 8 minute mini speech of things British empire did in India. India wasn't some poor country, it was actually one of the richest countries in the world before brits came along and stole everything.
This was my entire point in the initial post, it's both hilarious and a bit sad how people are so unaware what the british empire did in India.
Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF
by zpeti on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:17AM
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Stealing is a bit different to killing 30m Eastern Europeans, starving them to the point of cannibalism etc, and also killing 30m of your own people.
That’s my point. And that’s my family’s experience.
Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF
by dTal on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:23AM
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They did cause famine starving tens of millions of people. Deliberately. Among a great many other violent atrocities. Please read/watch the resources you have been given.
Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF
by dTal on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:12AM
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Even were we to accept that, the whatabout-ism is a shockingly poor taste response to someone with a personal connection to real oppression, and I don't even have words for someone labeling people "woke oppression crusaders" for pointing out that the UK committed crimes against humanity on a vast scale resulting in tens of millions of deaths.
Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF
by zpeti on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:19AM
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See my comment above about my family’s experience. As an Eastern European frankly I’m fed up of this British and American bashing. These places were heaven compared to the raids of mongols, Turks, soviets, and everything else in Central Europe.
There are grades of evil.
Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF
by dTal on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:28AM
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I really don't understand your point. Mongol raids happened, so it's fine to brush the atrocities of the Raj under rug? Bit of a non-sequitor.
Let's turn it around. "I'm fed up of all the Soviet bashing. It was heaven compared to the Congo under King Leopold." See? Not a nice reply is it?
Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF
by fidgewidge on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:49PM
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You're aware that the places the Empire conquered were all empires themselves, right? (with the exception I think of Australia/New Zealand, which weren't developed enough to have anything resembling an empire)
I’m from the Soviet empire. Trust me. From my family’s stories they’d much rather have been in the British empire than where they were. I’m pretty sure a lot of Rwandans and Haitians would agree too. The British were relatively good to their empire.