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What kind of lives did slaves have before they were snatched for the slave trade.
What kind of lives did slaves have before they were snatched for the slave trade.
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Some Empires are created by countries voluntarily amalgamating, one could see the EU as this.
It is then the people of the amalgamated countries who can give an opinion, like voting for BREXIT  |
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True Baphornet
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I’m sorry e bul if the Indians want to put their wives on the fire and burn them alive and the Africans want to put each other in the pot and eat them and we tell them they can’t and stop them , as we did
Then we are right and they are wrong no matter how much they plead that it is their ‘ culture’ I’m not sure what Charlie’s view on the matter is , he’s conflicted by his hatred and anti British outlook and can’t answer disgraceful really |
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10 Atrocities Committed by the British Empire that They Would Like to Erase from History Books
https://historycollection.co/10-atrocities-committed-by-the-british-empire-that-they-would-like-to-erase-from-history-books/ 10 Evil Crimes Of The British Empire https://listverse.com/2014/02/04/10-evil-crimes-of-the-british-empire/ Crimes Against Humanity: The British Empire https://www.globalresearch.ca/crimes-against-humanity-the-british-empire/5597781 Disgraceful really. |
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We are not trying to erase those things from history Charlie , the Indian famine at a time when Britain was fighting the most evil of foes in Nazi gernany .. to save both India and the civilised world
The Mau Mau uprising the most savage and merciless of foes who came in the dead of night to murder innocent men women and children The massacre in India ( mercifully something that shocked Britain itself )after the Indian mutiny savage in its murder of innocent men women and children ...I could go But Britain won the Second World War and saved India , and the rest of the world and brought peace and civilisation to every country in the Empire overall Now you haven’t answered , do you think the Indians should have been allowed to continue burning alive their wives on the fire , or the thugees allowed to continue to murder millions as they had done for centuries etc and the Africans to put each other in their ‘culture’ Or were we right to stop them , as we did Go ahead ..... |
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Well of course you don’t have to answer , you gave avoided answering for a long time
That tells us quite a lot right there , disgraceful really Sometimes the question is more important than the answer But let’s see ? |
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Just another area where Britain was way ahead of the game, having abolished the burning of heretics in 1677.
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Forgive me , do you think that the British were right to stop those barbaric practices , on going for centuries not individual mistakes but part of the ‘ cukture’
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You are a loony who denies what really happened. It's about time you took the Union jack out of arse and looked at the facts not your made up fairy stories. You are the most blinkered fool by far I have ever come across.
... as a reminder of what was done to India by the British, who conquered one of the richest countries in the world (27 per cent of global GDP in 1700) and reduced it, over two centuries of loot and exploitation, to one of the poorest, most diseased and most illiterate countries on Earth by the time they left in 1947. I bet you're so proud of that. |
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The British conquest of India,” Durant writes, “was the invasion and destruction of a high civilization by a trading company utterly without scruple or principle […] bribing and murdering, annexing and stealing, and beginning that career of illegal and legal plunder.” Britain profited enormously from what Durant calls the “rape of a continent,” so much so that on the eve of independence, the vast majority of Indians were living in poverty. It was, as Durant put it, “the most sordid and criminal exploitation of one nation by another in all recorded history.”
Makes you proud I suppose. |
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Charlie you haven’t answered , do you think the British were right to stop the Indians burning their wives on the funeral pyre , and destroying the thugee religious cult responsible for the murder of millions if Indians
It’s a quite simple question , go ahead Because until you do your opinion is worth nothing because it is blinded by hatred and bigotry Now let’s see , go ahead .... |
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His point was simple. India had enough food supplies to feed the starving - why had the government instead let them die? While Orissans perished in droves in 1866, Mr Naoroji noted that India had actually exported over 200m pounds of rice to Britain. He discovered a similar pattern of mass exportation during other famine years. "Good God," Mr Naoroji declared, "when will this end?"
It did not end anytime soon. Famines recurred in 1869 and 1874. Between 1876 and 1878, during the Madras famine, anywhere from four to five million people perished after the viceroy, Lord Lytton, adopted a hands-off approach similar to that employed in Ireland and Orissa. By 1901, Romesh Chunder Dutt, another leading nationalist, enumerated 10 mass famines since the 1860s, setting the total death toll at a whopping 15 million. Indians were now so poor - and the government so indifferent in its response - that, he stated, "every year of drought was a year of famine." Yeah blame it on the war. |
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Sati or suttee[note 1] is a largely historical Hindu funeral practice in India in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre.[2][3][4][5]
It was suicide not murder. It was probably a good idea to stop it. Now then what about the rest of the stuff or are you not man enough to address those things without giving a biased and obviously incorrect view? |
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lfc1971 is mentally ill. The biggest wind-up merchant on here. He doesn't believe the nonsense he comes out with.
The sad reality is he has nothing better to do with his pathetic life than spout rubbish on here 24/7. He deserves pity. |
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All of that ( if true ) is not good ( ps the distribution of food sent by Britain and America was hampered by the tensions and i cooperation between the local Muslims and Hindus ) , slavery was not good , it had been going on for centuries , we abolished it and used our military power to impose that and bring in trade and investment
Now about that question Charlie , go ahead ... |
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You are right Mr Eboue I shan't waste any more time on him.
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No answer from Charlie , that tells you all you need to know
Disgraceful really |
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You see when someone like that , and cry baby Eboue start to preach
Something within me starts to laugh , and jeer Maybe I shouldn’t do that , but no answer from Charlie |
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Charlie says it was ‘ probsbky’ a good idea to stop wives being burnt alive on their husbands funeral pyre , lol
That shows you the twisted mentality of someone like that right there |
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Not a good answer Charlie. Sorry
Try again .. |
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When someone gives an answer like that I would not trust them on anything whatsoever
do blinded and and bigoted and dishonest is the answer |
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Weasel words , and disgraceful and disgusting words
Unlike the clear and cool and wide and indeed beautiful words of British general in India All that time ago |
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Will you stop for a kitkat soon?
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Oh well , I think we have heard enough of Charlie’s opinions and views
They would be laughable in their badness, if not so serious in what it reveals |
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Disgraceful really , almost unbelievable
Here it is again , these are Charlie’s words “ it was suicide not murder. It was ‘probably’ a good idea to stop it “ The burning of woman on the funeral pyre That tells us all we need to know about Charlie , we don’t need to see anything else We already see too much |
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Time for tea , and a kit kat
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lfc1971
Would you like another country to invade this country Britain, and completely change our way of life. If anyone objected they were killed. I suspect you would not, well most people would not like it. Even if in hindsight we may have benefitted in a few things. This is how people of our wonderful Empire felt. They were glad to take back control when they were offered, when we dissolved our own Empire. |
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Countries prefer to decide their own destinies, they don't want other countries deciding it for them.
One reason we voted to leave the EU, although the EU did not actually occupy us. |
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Britain disbanded it's Empire after WW11, because the USA, another country you admire lfc1971, demanded we did.
The USA felt it contradicted Human Rights. |
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uble, your comments won't make sense to lfc. I remember once I mentioned to him that over a million people had died in Iraq in the 2003 war and his reply was, the Iraqis should be thankful for it because this gives them a chance to rebuild like Germany and Japan.
The guy probably does drugs which is sometimes evident from the diarrhea of his posts. |
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I keep telling lfc he was born a hundred years too late. He's still not out of that colonial mindset, even though the capital of that colonial empire is now almost completely controlled by the colonial subjects of those times.
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I agree detraveller
There is only one lfc1971, he is definitely not going to change. |
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detraveller you shouldn’t tell lies about what I said , that’s not good
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ok. i aplogeis.
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Now you have just posted that I said the Iraqis should be thankful that over a million Iraqis had died , now I didn’t say that
So don’t do that again , thanks |
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ok
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What I said was the Iraqis should have been thankful that a murderous dictator was overthrown
The same as the Germans with Hitler That’s what I said |
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lfc has got you all dangling - as per
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So stop telling fibs. That’s not good
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