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Who was trying to convince you that the British are the most evil people to ever walk the earth? Again, you’re adding your own context. Also who said anything about feeling guilty? Again, you’re adding your own context. The point you keep eloquently missing is that they’re not treated the same...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-66723054

As commander in chief of the British armed forces Jeffery Amherst also sat in the cabinet of the British government of the time. Hope that helps, although I suspect that you’re about to use the Trump defence that he didn’t personally hand the blankets over so he’s (and therefore the British...

Just watching C4 news and it looks like the SNP is handing the RAAC issue as clumsily as the Tories. Not looking good for the SNP at the next GE given all their other issues as well which begs the question. Who will benefit from the demise of the SNP?

Kind of proves my point doesn’t it, the fact that you can’t find much on it. I’m assuming that you didn’t read the guardian link you put up. If you did and followed some of the links on that page it explains it to you. It’s a relatively new phrase, I’ll give you that but it’s been around since...

I never said 10M Native Americans. I did say 10M Indians, as in people from India. 10M by the way is a disputed figure, many people believe the number to be far far higher especially if you look at it over a longer period, the 10M I was referring to was specific to a 10 year period of uprising...

You’re adding your own context there. I’ve not remotely suggested that we were some sort of historical anomaly. If anything I’m suggesting that Germany is the anomaly here in that unlike other nations who had imperial ambitions of world domination they actually teach compulsory in schools the...

The British Army led The Killing Times in Australia, it was the British Army that killed millions in India and it was the British Army that did most of the killing of Native Americans during the earlier periods of British rule there. How could it have been anything other than systematic...

That’s fair enough, I should have said the empire.

How about The Killing Times period in Australian history? The empire spent over 100 years deliberately trying to eradicate the aboriginal people again hunting men, women and children. It took another 100 years for the aboriginal population to recover we were that successful in that crusade.

Jeez, I can literally do this all day with the amount of atrocities committed by the empire. How about how we eradicate by hunting them down and murdering men, women and children the Native American tribe that not that long before sat down with the pilgrims to celebrate a good harvest? Just one...

We killed 10 million in 10 years in India alone for having an opposing ideology to us. That’s just in one country and 4 million more than Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis.

Of course I didn’t. I had to find that out for myself.

It’s all the same imperialistic mentality. It’s not apples and oranges at all, it’s all apples. The only apples and oranges is the difference between how Germany educate on their past imperialism and how we do. We have generations who think we’ve only ever been on the right side of history...

Again demonstrating my point perfectly. The Tories were instrumental in ending the East India Company. Although ultimately it was Gladstone (as a Liberal, although he’d previously been a Tory) that finished it off bringing around the beginning of the end of the empire. The Tories only existed...

You should probably read my post again, this time without adding your own context. Ironically you’re demonstrating perfectly the point that I was making. Thanks for your assistance.

All as bad as each other on varying scales as far as I know. Not suggested otherwise, not sure what makes you think that I have. Not sure what they teach in the classroom about their empires, I would hazard a guess that it’s equally as selective as ours though. Again all in stark contrast to...

Not me.

WTF are you talking about establishment. I’m 50 years of age and have children in high school. For generations we’ve been extremely selective on what history we teach in schools, even when subjects like empire are addressed it’s done with a specific narrative. It’s warped that we’re not honest...