• @[email protected]
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    291 year ago

    These colonial worshipping kids have been kneeling so long that they’ve forgotten how to stand.

    Their beloved ‘prime minister’ Churchill has quotes that wouldn’t feel out of place in Hitler’s collection:

    “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion”

    [the Pashuns] needs to “recognise the superiority of race”

    “I hate people with slit eyes and pigtails. I don’t like the look of them or the smell of them — but I suppose it does no great harm to have a look at them.”

    We shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them… as civilised nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China—I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

    The last one still rings true with the “just the government not the people” libs nowadays.

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      241 year ago

      The last one is utterly jaw-dropping, not necessarily because I’m surprised Churchill said it, but how this sentiment has hardly suffered a dent in the contemporary “western” zeitgeist.

      Replace a few words, trade “Aryan” for “European”, “civilized” for “developed”, and “barbaric” for “authoritarian”… boom, you’ve got a chart-topping WaPo OpEd.

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        31 year ago

        good to find a like minded person, i was just thinking something like that, that democracy x authoritarian is just rebranded colonial thinking, you paint a target in a country to justify intervening in it

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      1 year ago

      After some scrathing you can also quite often hear the three previous too, maybe except the pigtails part.