• roboto@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Man how revisionist can you be? For a poor fucker in Algeria, India or Namibia it really didn’t matter who committed genocide and if they were liberal or supporting democracy back home. Sure that Prussian king was a particularly unpleasant fella, but they all committed genocide and all others sorts of atrocities in their colonies and I really don’t think it’s appropriate to downplay just how bad the British & French were and actually all other European colonizers for that matter.

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      3 months ago

      Not my fault you think liberals are the good guys instead of the not-as-bad guys.

      Not my fault you don’t know what revisionism is either.

      Also not my fault you don’t know Wilhelm was planning on genociding his current and future African territories to make room for German settlers.

      https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-germanys-extermination-program-for-black-africans-a-template-for-the-holocaust/

      Feel free to check their sources if you don’t like the site.

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        3 months ago

        Is this a case study on how many logical fallacies you can fit into a certain amount of characters? I will only address the part that I was actually talking about and not all the other irrelevant stuff:

        First of all, of course I won’t read a Times of Israel article. But you using that as a source also makes sense. That being said, the Germans weren’t just planning, they committed the first genocide of the 20th century, hence my mentioning of Namibia.

        Again, that doesn’t change that the British were committing genocide e.g. in India, and let’s not forget all the indigenous victims of settler colonialism. The German genocide also doesn’t change the genocide that the French committed against Algerians or the Belgiums in Congo, it’s a long list. They were all bad and trying to justify that is just bad faith.

        And now I’m done here, wtf are you even doing rambling about Kaiser Wilhelm in a post about our local elections lol.