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A comment on America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012). Parent comment

Re:America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012) by comatose_kid on Monday June 24, 2013 @01:19PM (#5934301)
England's treatment of India made the world a better place? Please do explain.
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Re:America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012) by viggity on Monday June 24, 2013 @03:40PM (#5935179)
in short - massive investment in infrastructure.

As the Monty Python skit goes - "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

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Re:America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012) by comatose_kid on Monday June 24, 2013 @06:21PM (#5936140)
This is a convenient justification that paints the British as 'bringers of light' rather than the oppressors they were.

http://www.hinduwisdom.info/European_Imperialism13.htm

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