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What's wrong with your continent? This whole thread is making me feel like I'm in an alternative reality... The continent was raped, looted and pillaged by Eu
by roomey 4y ago
What's wrong with your continent?
This whole thread is making me feel like I'm in an alternative reality...
The continent was raped, looted and pillaged by Europeans and Americans. Complete populations were enslaved. Natural resources were stolen, cultures were destroyed.
And of course, in the best traditions, divisions were sown where one set of Native people were marked as better than another set, in a move that takes many generations to heal.
My country (Ireland) was colonised, we lost half our population to famine and emigration. We, almost, lost our language, out culture. We still have sectarian conflict. We didn't have one quarter the shit that was done to many parts of Africa. And, without Europe's money, we would still be a state completely dependent on our former colonisers.
Healing will take time, but to not mention the damage done, and still being done there is nonsense.
The top post on this thread is saying the apartheid government was bad yes... But they made the trains run on time!
- recuter 4y ago> The continent was raped, looted and pillaged by Europeans and Americans. Complete populations were enslaved. Natural resources were stolen, cultures were destroyed. Our species is a violent one. The same can be said of other continents. Africa had the same problems long before America was hardly even a thing. You could just as easily give counter examples of say gunboat diplomacy cracking open Japan and hurling it out of stasis and into modernity. > The top post on this thread is saying the apartheid government was bad yes... But they made the trains run on time! You are not doing the people you purport sympathy for any favors with such an attitude. Trains need to run, electric grids need to work. The observation on competency in no way implies endorsement of the previous government. People are objectively worse off now, believe it or not (look into it before arguing), while you get to moralize from far away. Nobody is arguing for a return to the previous regime obviously. What you're doing simply isn't helpful.
- pixelpoet 4y ago> The top post on this thread is saying the apartheid government was bad yes... But they made the trains run on time! I'm sorry to hear about your difficulties with reading comprehension, but if you're suggesting that I'm an Apartheid apologist for trying to explain how things got the way they are and how it's completely on-brand mismanagement from the ANC government, you've got completely the wrong guy.