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A colonizing force takes over your country, steals your resources and exploits your people, and your people suffer. You try to resist and you are murdered. The
by mustafa_pasi 5y ago
A colonizing force takes over your country, steals your resources and exploits your people, and your people suffer.
You try to resist and you are murdered.
Then some guy on the internet says, "I don't think the colonizing force ever did anything deliberately genocidal" as if that somehow excuses all the other evil they committed.
- hermitcrab 5y agoGenocide is: "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group." Did the British empire do plenty of bad things? Yes, I would say so. Did it deliberately commit genocide? I'm not so sure. Please feel free to provide an example.
- hermitcrab 5y agoRe-read your post and my answer missed the mark. You weren't accusing the British empire of genocide. My bad. Certainly I'm not out to excuse the British empire for any atrocities that were committed. Yes, times were different and other empires have been much worse. But a lot of dreadful things were done. Britain gunboats forcing China to accept Indian opium comes to mind as a particulalry shameful and inexcusable example.