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I guess that is what happens when you let a private corporation (The East India Company) run a sub-continent for profit with its own army. At least Google and F
by hermitcrab 5y ago
I guess that is what happens when you let a private corporation (The East India Company) run a sub-continent for profit with its own army. At least Google and Facebook don't have their own armies (yet)!
- rbg246 5y agoA private corporation committing atrocities is still the country or empire that sets the rules. It's still British people carrying out / orchestrating the violence.
- hermitcrab 5y agoI'm not excusing Britain in any way for allowing the East India Company to behave as it did. I believe many of the British ruling class were shareholders and benefitted directly from its depredations.
- rbg246 5y agoNo absolutely, sorry if I sounded that way. I certainly was not saying you were excusing, just adding an addendum to your comment.
- hermitcrab 5y agoAlso, in the British tradition of 'divide and rule' they would generally get local people to do a lot of the dirty work.