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What Germans did in Belgium is inexcusable. However, knowing what Belgians did in Africa in XIX/XX century I do not have much pity for them.
by llukas 10y ago
What Germans did in Belgium is inexcusable.
However, knowing what Belgians did in Africa in XIX/XX century I do not have much pity for them.
- neaden 10y agoThere is definately a legitamate argument that WW1/2 were essentially the West using the lessons they learned from colonialism on each other. This is pretty explicit in WW2 with Hitler's plan to ethnically cleanse and colonize Eastern Europe. At the same time, the horrible atrocities Belgium committed in the Congo don't make the murder of civilians any more inexcusable.
- thinkmilitant 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
- llukas 10y agoDoesn't apply here. You seem to think otherwise - why? I explicitly say that what Germans did is inexcusable.