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The worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire

11 points by type0 5y ago

1cvmask 5y ago
How about openly white supremacist Winston Churchill laughing about deliberately killing 3 million Indians. Maybe that’s why he is considered a hero in the white world. The genocidal murderer of millions of non-whites is lionized in Hollywood. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3005838/churchills-real-darkest-hour-new-evidence-confirms-british https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3005838/churc... https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/what-was-racist-winston-churchills-role-in-1943-bengal-famine-which-killed-millions-2659309.html https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/what-was-racist-winston-chu... https://www.news18.com/news/india/winston-churchills-policies-caused-the-1943-bengal-famine-says-new-study-2082931.html https://www.news18.com/news/india/winston-churchills-policie... https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/fpj-fast-facts-why-winston-churchill-was-a-racist-that-indians-should-never-celebrate https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/fpj-fast-facts-why-win...
- thunkshift1 5y ago
  Everybody knows this is not something to be talked about openly in internet forums.. good vibes only.
Grakel 5y ago
Would love to see some charts of their page views with this impenetrable pay wall (register wall?)
jschveibinz 5y ago
More bad stuff: - Opium wars with Chinese - Transatlantic slave trade - Use of slave labor in the Caribbean - Taxation without representation in the colonies - Stealing raw materials and labor from Africa - Partitioning of the Middle East - Ireland Some good stuff: - scientific revolution in physics, chemistry, electromagnetics, medicine, astronomy, biology, etc. - industrial revolution: steam, locomotives, construction, mining, etc. - legal codes and systems - parliamentary democracies - standards for trade and commerce - English language as lingua franca
- Jcowell 5y ago
  Are all of those good stuff attributed to Britain? I can see many being subscribed to Europe as a whole but surely not 1 empire.
- rramadass 5y ago
  >Some good stuff: - scientific revolution in physics, chemistry, electromagnetics, medicine, astronomy, biology, etc. - industrial revolution: steam, locomotives, construction, mining, etc. - legal codes and systems - parliamentary democracies - standards for trade and commerce - English language as lingua franca The worst of "revisionist" history! Much of the "Scientific Revolution" was due more to Europeans in general rather than the British per se. The "legal codes and systems" were designed entirely with self-interest in mind and destroyed whole societies which were more community-based and self-sustaining in nature. The fact that they have become dominant is entirely the result of the "Colonial Era" and not due to any inherent "goodness" i.e. they are an "accident of history".
tibbydudeza 5y ago
British East India Company - they should be classified the same as the SS.
rramadass 5y ago
The horrors committed by the British Empire are sadly under-reported and not well taught, it has been "Whitewashed". They have not been held accountable nor forced to pay reparations till date. In particular; the devastation wrought on India beggars belief. Watch this first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB5ykS-_-CI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB5ykS-_-CI . Also Read the book Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, (aka An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India) by the above speaker. British Raj siphoned out $45 trillion from India: https://www.livemint.com/Companies/HNZA71LNVNNVXQ1eaIKu6M/British-Raj-siphoned-out-45-trillion-from-India-Utsa-Patna.html https://www.livemint.com/Companies/HNZA71LNVNNVXQ1eaIKu6M/Br... For a description of "Perfidious Albion" read Empire in Asia, How We Came by It: A Book Of Confessions by William McCullagh Torrens.
chewz 5y ago
Free trade principle was invented by British to fight against Dutch monopoly in spices… And then wars in order to enforce free trade with Asian nations… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_(island) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_(island)
- cafard 5y ago
  My impression was that the Dutch invented free trade, for their own advantage.
guilhas 5y ago
Also relevant atrocities being committed by Britain today, by the US, Israel, China, Russia...

11 points by type0 5y ago

How about openly white supremacist Winston Churchill laughing about deliberately killing 3 million Indians. Maybe that’s why he is considered a hero in the white world. The genocidal murderer of millions of non-whites is lionized in Hollywood. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3005838/churchills-real-darkest-hour-new-evidence-confirms-british https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3005838/churc... https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/what-was-racist-winston-churchills-role-in-1943-bengal-famine-which-killed-millions-2659309.html https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/what-was-racist-winston-chu... https://www.news18.com/news/india/winston-churchills-policies-caused-the-1943-bengal-famine-says-new-study-2082931.html https://www.news18.com/news/india/winston-churchills-policie... https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/fpj-fast-facts-why-winston-churchill-was-a-racist-that-indians-should-never-celebrate https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/fpj-fast-facts-why-win...

thunkshift1 5y ago
Everybody knows this is not something to be talked about openly in internet forums.. good vibes only.

Grakel 5y ago

Would love to see some charts of their page views with this impenetrable pay wall (register wall?)

jschveibinz 5y ago

More bad stuff: - Opium wars with Chinese - Transatlantic slave trade - Use of slave labor in the Caribbean - Taxation without representation in the colonies - Stealing raw materials and labor from Africa - Partitioning of the Middle East - Ireland Some good stuff: - scientific revolution in physics, chemistry, electromagnetics, medicine, astronomy, biology, etc. - industrial revolution: steam, locomotives, construction, mining, etc. - legal codes and systems - parliamentary democracies - standards for trade and commerce - English language as lingua franca

Jcowell 5y ago
Are all of those good stuff attributed to Britain? I can see many being subscribed to Europe as a whole but surely not 1 empire.
rramadass 5y ago
>Some good stuff: - scientific revolution in physics, chemistry, electromagnetics, medicine, astronomy, biology, etc. - industrial revolution: steam, locomotives, construction, mining, etc. - legal codes and systems - parliamentary democracies - standards for trade and commerce - English language as lingua franca The worst of "revisionist" history! Much of the "Scientific Revolution" was due more to Europeans in general rather than the British per se. The "legal codes and systems" were designed entirely with self-interest in mind and destroyed whole societies which were more community-based and self-sustaining in nature. The fact that they have become dominant is entirely the result of the "Colonial Era" and not due to any inherent "goodness" i.e. they are an "accident of history".

tibbydudeza 5y ago

British East India Company - they should be classified the same as the SS.

rramadass 5y ago

The horrors committed by the British Empire are sadly under-reported and not well taught, it has been "Whitewashed". They have not been held accountable nor forced to pay reparations till date. In particular; the devastation wrought on India beggars belief. Watch this first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB5ykS-_-CI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB5ykS-_-CI . Also Read the book Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, (aka An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India) by the above speaker. British Raj siphoned out $45 trillion from India: https://www.livemint.com/Companies/HNZA71LNVNNVXQ1eaIKu6M/British-Raj-siphoned-out-45-trillion-from-India-Utsa-Patna.html https://www.livemint.com/Companies/HNZA71LNVNNVXQ1eaIKu6M/Br... For a description of "Perfidious Albion" read Empire in Asia, How We Came by It: A Book Of Confessions by William McCullagh Torrens.

chewz 5y ago

Free trade principle was invented by British to fight against Dutch monopoly in spices… And then wars in order to enforce free trade with Asian nations… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_(island) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_(island)

cafard 5y ago
My impression was that the Dutch invented free trade, for their own advantage.

guilhas 5y ago

Also relevant atrocities being committed by Britain today, by the US, Israel, China, Russia...