Posted on 02/15/2024 1:23:33 PM PST by DallasBiff
When she took the throne in 1952, more than a quarter of the world's population was under British imperial power. That was more than 700 million people — including in parts of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific islands. ,p> While her 70-year reign saw the British Empire become the Commonwealth of Nations — and the decline of the United Kingdom's global influence — the scars of colonialism linger. Many note the enslavement, violence and theft that defined imperial rule, and they find it difficult to separate the individual from the institution and its history.p>
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I don’t understand your point.
You want a monarchy?
If you look at those former colonies today the ones that are in the best shape...politically and economically...are the colonies of Britain.
The British outlawed slavery trade about 1840 or earlier.
Seems NPR doesn’t know their history or deliberately left it out of the key opening paragraphs of this smear piece.
That ‘s the problem with these monarchs. They try to bring stone age people up to modern standards and all those people do is cry, whine and look back at the wonderful days of being stone age troglodytes.
Same for the US when it tries the same. You should see the American Indian web pages whining and crying about how good the olden days were before the White Man arrived.
How the tribes treated each other BEFORE The White Man arrived...
https://ournativeamericans.blogspot.com/2018/07/1300s-crow-creek-massacre-in-south.html
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/massacre-sacred-ridge
https://bonesdontlie.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/basketmaker-ii-cave-7-massacre-or-cemetery/
https://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/1991/12/01/scalping-victim/
https://prezi.com/z9ioohxrdgat/anasazi-cannibalism/?fallback=1
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39268873
https://www.historynet.com/when-the-sioux-ambushed-pawnee-hunters-at-massacre-canyon/
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
https://lostworlds.org/ancient-massacre-discovered-in-new-mexico-was-it-genocide/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/2269-140630-colorado-torture-evidence
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1593823
https://archive.archaeology.org/9709/newsbriefs/anasazi.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-skulls-not-crime-scene-human-sacrifice-ad-900/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexican-site-reveals-brutal-sacrifice-of-spanish-conquistadors/
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SL002
http://blogoklahoma.us/place/117/kiowa/cutthroat-gap-massacre
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=CU012
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=CL003
they hate white British for “racism” but they can’t wait to move to Britain. The racism is unbearable so they go to live with the alleged racists
Doesn't Great Britain have a Constitutional Monarchy? And doesn't that mean that the Crown has no authority to grant independence to any of its colonies, and that the authority has to specifically come from Parliament?
You reinforce my point. If she, as queen, had no direct control, then they are blaming the wrong person/people.
Yeah...because spreading institutions, like heath, education, democracy, were all so bad, including building roads, bridges, and railways.
The British gave up on slavery a long time ago, before the USA, and had their navy provide a blockade against slavery ships in the Atlantic.
These people want to make everyone default their thinking to “everything was bad” when it wasn’t that way at all. We’re there aholes? Sure. Were some bad things done? Sure - tell me ANY government in history that didn’t do bad things....but we’re supposed to linger on only the bad when Britain brought a lot to the world.
Apologies to "Monty Python's Life of Brian" ...
Whoever it is, he’s got the jug ears like Hussein.
South Africa?
now that we taught them how to be civil and program computers, they want to kick us to the curb.
nothing new under the sun.
I used the expression “the effete vestige of antique tyranny” to describe royalty during an undergraduate paper on Irish literature. I got an “A” and the prof asked me if he could steal the line. I agreed
Britain’s colonial rule is a mixed but on the whole positive legacy. The Queen was born to a role that she did not invent but filled in a mostly benevolent way. The strongest and most valid criticism of the Queen is that her investments abroad influenced her to support the open immigration policies that have wrecked Britain.
“If they were colonies when she was crowned and commonwealth when she dies, they’re mad at the wrong person.”
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Exactly. Also, it’s not as if she personally ordered the British Army and Navy to seize territories and make them colonies. She inherited the throne, as well as the way the world was in her youth. She didn’t make it that way. For that matter, she didn’t decolonize, either. She was a ceremonial monarch, not a political decision-maker. Why anybody would be mad at that lady, I can’t understand. I can understand British taxpayers being opposed to an entire royal family being paid millions of dollars a year and living in literal palaces at public expense, but to be angry at Queen Elizabeth for the way the world was, through no fault of her own, is sheer stupidity. As you said, they are mad at the wrong person.
And just how have many of those former colonies fared since gaining independence? Some of them were hellholes to begin with and have returned to such.
Exactly
Yes.
Looks like South Africa doing their best BLM!
Burn, Loot and Murder.
I'm not surprised.
Think about it for a while.
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