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Originally Posted by crashed
Is anyone really surprised there are white supremist mass murderers though? Wasn't that pretty much what colonialism was, just couched in a veneer of polite, respectable society? The Brits were at it, the Dutch, the French, the Spanish, and it seems even the Belgians. I had heard of Leopold somewhere but maybe just in passing.
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It's not about being surprised though. It's about how we think. Really, should colonial crimes be taught in school? Be treated similarly to the holocaust? Or simply ignored? When I think of the holocaust, I get shivers down my back and wonder how humans could have been possibly so evil? When I think of colonialism, I get zero emotions...
And that's just the start of it. It applies to a large part of everyone's socio-political thinking...ah well, I guess at this point it's jumping over into Matrix type pseudo-philosophical debates. Still....we are brain-washed from day 1. It's good to be aware of that as soon as we make any judgement calls.