• Spendrill@lemm.ee
    9·
    9 months ago

    I think it’s unfair to suggest that the UK Government doesn’t like you asking about African internment camps.

    They also don’t like you asking about:

    • the conditions under which refugees are currently housed, give you a clue it kind of rhymes historically with internment camps
    • Various Indian famines that were caused or exacerbated by colonial rule
    • role in slave trade. Yes they ended the slave trade… by compensating slave owners. Also started the fucking thing.
    • That time we basically stole an entire island from its people to put an airbase there.
    • linked to the internment camps, pretty much anything Churchill did prior to the Second World War and after it also.
    • the undercover activities of the police investigating environmental groups e.g. having children by the people they were surveilling.

    There’s probably several pages of this but I’ve only just woken up.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      The British Empire once covered over a quarter of the Earth’s land area. Even the Mongols never managed that.

      And by “once”, it’s not ancient history. It was 1920.

      It’s horrifying, and we’re almost certainly responsible for more suffering than any other country on Earth, but also kind of impressive. There are just 22 countries we never invaded.

        • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Don’t look at us, it was the Spanish that found it.

          Well, after all those people that were already on it, obviously. But they hardly count. They weren’t white. But according to Americans, neither are the Spanish, so…