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Wow, the British sure were really petty.

• sfink 5y ago
  Petty? I could see "cruel", or "clever", or strategic in their subjugation of other populations. It was a calculated tactic, not a petty one. Here in the US, we mostly slaughtered the natives and forced the survivors into reservations rather than coming up with clever ways of controlling them. Is our way or the British way more petty?
  • jimmyed 5y ago
    Our way was murderous, maybe the worst way to do it. Maybe the only other case where it was worse was in New Zealand where the Māori people were almost completely decimated. In comparision, the Britishers were saints. They did not perform genocide (until Churchill came around... that was the age of barbarians unfortunately)