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[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

people sure do love genociding the brits

Real Mithridates hours

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

now more than ever the island is small and vulnerable, you only get one shot do not miss the chance to blow this opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

[–] Zeth4@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Mainly Romans

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago
[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

That's what happens when you're the biggest colonizer the world had ever seen.

[–] judgeholden@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

british genocide

sicko-laser

[–] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

☕️☕️☕️

[–] kig_v2@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The British might have done genocide the most the good ol' fashioned way, but I really think at least in per-capita terms the US will be recognized in future history books as the worst. They mastered the art of genocide to the point that we don't even think of them as responsible for all the deaths they cause.

Do we MLs even call what happened in Iraq a genocide? I mean, millions of civilians died at the hands of the US. Not only places we directly invade but what about everywhere we strangle economically, where we install fascist dictators, at that point I feel like the death and destruction outweighs the Brits by a magnitude.

The British imperialists bowed out and chose to live in their "garden" peacefully while the Americans inherited their death machine and revolutionized it with Nazi inspiration. We modernized it and mastered the craft of being so purely evil and yet in such a way that most people wouldn't associate the US with genocide save perhaps that of the Native Americans (arguably another British genocide as well).

[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago

The difference between US atrocities and every other country on Earth is that we never call them genocides, we never let anyone call them genocides. The War in Iraq was simply a war...where millions of innocent people were killed or tortured.

[–] Farman@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Who knows how many people died on india durin colonial rule. They were particularly brutal over there.

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago

Its children are worse (US, Canada, Australia)

[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah they like doing that

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Every country on earth should get a turn doing to Britain what Britain did to them.

I'm sure the British Empire apologists will have no problem with that since colonialism was good, actually.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Wow the British sure are being genocided in a lot of countries.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

SARCASM

notice how it's not kenyan genocide in kenya. this is just further proof that white genocide is real!

SARCASM

[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago
[–] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

British genocide in Scotland British genocide in Ireland

TMW you're so racist that you genocide white people.

[–] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is literally genocide

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Forgot about concentration camps in South Africa

[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah those were the ones most talked about in modern history. But they also built plenty of camps for black Africans as well.

https://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0018-229X2019000200001