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I have a feeling you haven't read much British colonial history. Amritsar? Boer concentration camps? Indian emancipation had nothing to do with British goodness
by crispinb 7y ago
I have a feeling you haven't read much British colonial history. Amritsar? Boer concentration camps? Indian emancipation had nothing to do with British goodness. It had much to do with mass uprisings, clever tactics, and more than a few blown-up railway lines.
- Veen 7y agoThe grandfather comment said and implied nothing about British goodness. It was a pragmatic decision.
- crispinb 7y agoI read taneq's (admittedly sketchy) comment as suggesting that the Gandhian part of the Indian independence struggle was effective not because of its nonviolent tactics, but because of the relatively benign nature of British colonial governance.
- thrower123 7y agoMassive exhaustion, inability, and unwillingness to maintain their colonial empire after losing the best part of two generations to European wars had the most to do with it. Unfortunately, we are still dealing with the fallout of Britain's abdication of responsibility.
- taneq 7y agoI'm not saying they were great, and definitely on an organisational level they did some evil things. But on an individual level, shooting an unarmed person in the face in cold blood generally just wasn't done in the same way as it would have been in some other regimes.