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It doesn't stop with one generation. As Chinese workers immigrated into America, they opened opium dens here too. https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Chin
by 29athrowaway 4y ago
It doesn't stop with one generation.
As Chinese workers immigrated into America, they opened opium dens here too.
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Chinatown%27s_Opium_Dens https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Chinatown%27s_Opium_...
Then, the opium poppy, a plant not endemic to the Americas, started being cultivated in Mexico. Why Mexico? because the US banned Chinese immigration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
We cannot ever blame the drug crisis on the British because it breaks the rules of history where history is written by the victors. We have to let people get away with stuff. We cannot describe the EIC as narcos, and if someone does, we have to downvote them.
- mjburgess 4y agoThe problem with this analysis is: where does the buck stop? Why does moral responsibility always stop with Europeans? Does Europe posses some Adult Moral capability the Mexicans lack? Whatever story of woe you want to tell about why "china did X", can be told likewise about europe. The buck, stops where then? The Romans? The Celts?
- 29athrowaway 4y agoWhataboutism. The only thing I can say here is that people like Lord Palmerston were aware of what they were doing.
- SrslyJosh 4y ago> Why does moral responsibility always stop with Europeans? Probably because they were the ones violently subjugating everyone else.