King Leopold II got into the colonialism game a bit later than some of the other players, but the people of the Congo gave him a hand in quickly catching up and surpassing the others in being a massive piece of shit.
Normally I don’t like explaining jokes, but I think knowing is more important than the shitty joke in this case, but that fucker’s regime started a habit of cutting off hands for failing to meet production quotas for rubber in the Congo.
And maybe surpassing is overstating it, since Britain and Spain at least were engaging more in genocide than forced labour of the natives, then they just shipped in African slaves for the labour.
And I’m only leaving France and the Dutch off that list because I’m not familiar with the specifics of how they did colonialism, though I am aware of Haiti, a French colony until the only successful slave revolt that I’m aware of happened there, so that doesn’t look very promising for them.
King Leopold II got into the colonialism game a bit later than some of the other players, but the people of the Congo gave him a hand in quickly catching up and surpassing the others in being a massive piece of shit.
Normally I don’t like explaining jokes, but I think knowing is more important than the shitty joke in this case, but that fucker’s regime started a habit of cutting off hands for failing to meet production quotas for rubber in the Congo.
And maybe surpassing is overstating it, since Britain and Spain at least were engaging more in genocide than forced labour of the natives, then they just shipped in African slaves for the labour.
And I’m only leaving France and the Dutch off that list because I’m not familiar with the specifics of how they did colonialism, though I am aware of Haiti, a French colony until the only successful slave revolt that I’m aware of happened there, so that doesn’t look very promising for them.