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This is so washed up as a take. Let’s go to mars instead of pouring energy into blaming the British for everything.
by IceHegel 3y ago
This is so washed up as a take. Let’s go to mars instead of pouring energy into blaming the British for everything.
- organsnyder 3y agoThis post is perhaps extreme (I don't know enough about the history to comment), but not only can we both learn from history while looking forward, but we should do so—best to put our most self-aware foot forward as we hope to expand beyond our planet.
- IceHegel 3y agoIn agree in the abstract. In practice, we are very over-indexed on these deconstruction type issues by selectively reopening old wounds, often along racial lines, which isn't leading anywhere good, defiantly not to mars.
- organsnyder 3y agoMany of these wounds have never closed for the people affected by them.
- someidiot123 3y ago[dead]
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- cool_dude85 3y agoNo argument, just "old news"? The British did do this. They ethnically cleansed the Chagos islands. Don't like it, argue your point.
- leadingthenet 3y ago...of people who were as native to the lands as the British themselves were, a minority of which were even born there, on an island where literally nobody owned any private real-estate to begin with. Yes, this is exactly what ethnic cleansing means in usual parlance and is totally not hyperbole.
- skulk 3y agoLet's establish the most remote colony without studying how the most powerful colonizing entity treated its possessions! Honestly, I can't really think of a more awful take.