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TIL that in 1833 Britain used 40% of its national budget to free all slaves in the Empire : todayilearned

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!britbongs look at the utter ingratitude of these colonials

Paying slave-owners to give up their "property" is clearly worse than saying they get nothing and doing all the rest.

You are right they should have instead continued slavery for a further 60 years, allowed slaves to be continued to be exported from Africa then had a massive civil war over it getting about 700,000 people killed.

Well it would have been more dramatic that way, yes.

How about they try to end the Israel vs. Palestine conflict they caused.

Fun fact: Israel has no right to exist because it should still be the British Mandate of Palestine.

Crazy how many of the "oppressed" countries continue with slavery even without the option to sell to the Brits

You use oppressed in quotation marks and in the same sentence confirm slavery is ongoing in these countries. We still have to call people stupid here.

POC enslaving each other is wypipo's fault :dasrite:

not baller. imperialism is never baller no matter how you try to disguise its intentions. remember, the British always have some other kind of angle β€” empires never do anything out of kindness.

This is one of the few examples of an empire doing something out of pure altruism. Britain felt like it was their duty to abolish slavery even though that didn't benefit them and cost them and unimaginable some of money. This is a unicorn in terms of imperial actions, there was no gain and a lot of loss and they did it anyway.

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Instead of buying their freedom you could've just...ya know...freed them.

Edit: You people down voting do realize that you're advocating for compensating slave owners with British tax dollars.

:brainletchest: British tax dollars

Angry Sexy Indian dudes

The British had slaves in Indian until the beginning of the 20th century though.

They like to use the words like "indentured servitude", but it's the same kind of shit

Its very much different. Indentured servant is voluntary. It is essentially a contract to work for a set amount of time (5 years) in exchange for something.


Yet kept indians enslaved until 1947

There is a reason ghandi always spoke highly of British rule in general, his problem was less with the rule and more with the fact indians were not the ones doing it, fair enough obviously, his objection was imperialism rather than the system.

You talk to people as if they must be unaware, i know you are referring to the fixed labour contracts unique to the indians, which is essentially akin to indentured servitude but pretending the numbers of people involved in that which is not really slavery (you can pretend this is universally agreed by historian's if you really want) is the same as it continuing slavery is disingenuous and also pretending this was remotely relevant in 1947 is also disingenuous.

!bharatiya penny for your thoughts?

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It's really obvious how feminine liberalism is.

>Yeah, you did this good thing, but you should have done it better :marseyindignantwoman:

Basically no different from a nagging foid.

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Not just liberals. I got the same response from /r/stupidpol a while ago too.

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/r/stupidpol is like /r/MensRight: either the users eventually accept wokeism but with full communist economic policies (i.e. arakiddies) or just go full tankie (i.e. anti-West identity politics)

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If you are on the designated good guy team any action can be excused away, if you are on the bad guy team nothing is good enough or must have been done with an evil ulterior motive

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also it was probably staged anyway :soysnootypefast:

!slots111

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:#marseymerchantfoid: tricks

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Old style liberalism is pretty manly and is based on being actually liberal and self-responsible.

Wokeism is pure foidery though, most of it just straight politicisation of female social tendencies. Like enforced non-confrontationalism (i.e. political correctness). Efforts on the 'fairness' of who's top of the hierarchy (opposed to criticism of the hierarchy itself) and so on

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Yeah, calling this attitude "liberal" is like calling the GOP "conservative".

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Speaking on slaver girlbosses, Brazilian BIPOCcels are now whitewashing Ginga, the Angolan kween who fought the Tugas and who was herself a slaver selling slaves to the tugas themselves, into some progressive feminist icon. The :soyjak: historian from Maringa, Laurentino Gomes is an example, even though he wrote accurately who Ginga was he still bowed to wokies by saying how important those myths are and compared the "legacy" of Ginga as some brave and stunning kween against that of Catherine of Brangaça who get's cancelled because she owned some shares in some slave company.

!macacos !historychads I hate Brazilian woketards so much is unreal.

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If memory serves me right, didn't that b-word literally have s*x slaves who had to fight to the death for the privilege of queen kitty? :marseyxd: :marseywomanmoment2:

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Yes

https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/internacional-44361821

A "YASS KWEEN SLAY" article.

She literally owned slaves and fought for the independence of her own Kingdom, nor for "black power/girl power" nonsense. That's what pisses me the most about Gomes's idiotic comparison with Catherina de Bragança on his book, Catherina was just a consort Queen of England who never personally owned slaves and had no power over her Parliament and her husband.

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Even here in Portugal, Catarina isn't regarded as that important of an historical figure.

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The Queen's borough in NYC is named like that after her. The Tuga community of NYC ordered a Bronze statue of Catarina to commemorate their heritage but they got cancelled by the local kangz who decried she was an evil slaver or something and instead the statue is now in Lisboa.

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Didn't know that TIL

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The demand for good successful girlbosses is higher than the supply even after scrapping through the entirety of human history.

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I give it 10 years til we get a Narcos: Girlboss edition

Carp would like that :marseyxd:

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Heck yeah


https://i.rdrama.net/images/17235685217415228.webp

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Narcos girl boss edition already exists

Griselda or something like that

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Bring back punishing common scolds, I say.

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"Well yes, you did free a whole bunch of slaves and abolish the practice throughout your entire empire, but you did it peacefully instead of proving how manly you are by fighting so I don't care for it"

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>If you really loved me you'd kill them all

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I agree, but if you tell a foid the reason is about who owned the slaves then suddenly it's not acceptable again

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Michelangelo is a foid???? :marseymindblown:

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:#marseythissmall:

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Reminds me of that foid J Draper who is a self hating brit

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