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Originally Posted by shadbolt
I used to be proud to be British. When I read of Nelson "England expects...", the Empire, the abolition of slavery, Concorde (but TSR2 was better) etc.
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You are aware of course that not only did the British abolish slavery, they also spent hundreds of years killing thousands of people and ensuring misery for hundreds of thousands as slaves? Did you know that the wealth of the Empire was directly drawn from slavery? Do you know anything of the current political and humanitarian crises across Africa, crises that still stem in many areas from the days of colonialism, of Empire?
Where are you reading about Slavery and Empire that actually makes you proud? I find that repulsive. I know that's strong language, but it's genuinely worrying that you are either so ignorant or so immoral as to not be deeply ashamed of our history in wrecking other people's lives around the world.