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Look up king Leopold of Belgium if you're looking for a less "frivolous human sacrifice" aspect during that time period. Humans have a strange thirst for blood
by orange8 4y ago
Look up king Leopold of Belgium if you're looking for a less "frivolous human sacrifice" aspect during that time period.
Humans have a strange thirst for blood, whether its for religion or money.
- rajin444 4y ago[flagged]
- notahacker 4y agoAh yes, just as it would be wrong to single out Hitler for capitalising on latent anti-Semitism that already existed, and the real problem with WWII is that Germany wasn't successful enough in its expansion to prevent pogroms... Leopold introduced a policy of paying his (non-native) soldiers based on the number of severed hands produced, FFS. I doubt the kingdoms that existed beforehand were wonderful places that never arbitrarily killed anyone, but you absolutely can blame him for paying bounties for evidence of sufficiently prolific indiscriminate killing/maiming, and generally being one of the most despicable humans to have ever lived.
- orange8 4y agoHe did introduce it. Rubber was not traded or even heard of in the Congo until the Belgians arrived. > Pygmies are still eaten in the congo today. LOl! There are no Pymies in Congo. Pygmies are from the CONGO BASIN, not CONGO. But I wouldn't expect someone who still believes in old proganda stories from the 1800s to know anything about the continents geography. Do you have any proof of pygmy cannibalism?