[Ouch] Off-topic perhaps, but let's watch failing Don Lemon get wrecked on TV.

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[–]LtGreenCo 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I'm so tired of the colonialism bullshit. Okay, your people lost a territorial dispute at some point in the past... so, pretty much par for the course in all of human history. Maybe consider yourself lucky that some of your people were assimilated rather than entirely wiped from the face of the planet.

[–]jet199 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's funny that's it's usually the ex-empires who are the most pissed off by western colonialism.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You don't see any of this silly colonialism shit popping up in Asian, Middle Eastern, or African societies. You know why? Because none of them ever made the colossal mistake of apologizing for it; they conquered others, occupied their lands, and imposed their cultures on the survivors--and, occasionally, did some pretty ugly shit to ensure that there wouldn't be any survivors, period--and that was that.

Only in European, and Europe-descended, nations did the idea take hold that being better at putting a boot to people was somehow shameful. And that opened to the door to the whole construct that, rather than just learning from the past and not repeating the egregious bits (like slavery and genocide), we need to endlessly milk it for guilt and gibs.

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Honestly, even milking it for guilt is beyond just the anger at colonialism aspect in too many positions. I live in the one state in the US where part of the history of the state means there is conclusive, undeniable, admitted evidence from day 1 that the founder of the colony went to the Native tribe that lived here, paid that tribe a fair market rate by 1600s standards to legitimately buy the land, made it clear to the native tribe that he was paying them for the land and the right to live there, and still allowed the native tribe to live there alongside the colonists who would come there.

And yet there's still demands it's stolen land here and that reparations and the land needs to be given back to the tribe it was "stolen" from even though it's admitted 'no, it was totally bought.' In doing so, it's not even colonisation, it's stealing a game system from Gamestop and giving it back to the person who traded it in originally.

[–]SerpensInferna 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Most blacks are too stupid and intentionally uneducated to realize they got the better end of the bargain. They'd rather chimp out than try to make a better life for their children, it seems. And that's why they occupy the position they do, unlike the Indians or Asians who take advantage of the opportunities present in the USA.