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by detritus
3025 days ago
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> The link you gave does not substantiate that claim at all. No, which is why I didn't [link] it - I gave it as an example of internal criticism which postures an alternate reason for some of India's woes. > I would not be surprised that someone who is a victim has an axe to grind with a genocidal expropriative regime Thank goodness we're not resorting to hyperbole here. I'm not sure how much of a victim he is given his status and the historical gulf of time before his birth and the period in question.* > What is surprising is that there are colonial apologists Zzz, I think I tried to state I wasn't comfortable framing my response in terms endearing towards some of The Empire's worst excesses. A shame criticism must remain so rigidly polarised - I am sure that's how history was too, hard aligned and absolute. [edit: * as a Scot with family originating from the Highlands am I ok to play the victim card for much of my ancestry moving to the other side of the Atlantic?] |
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The person's country is the victim the parent referred to, not the person.
A person's whose country or community has been wrong will also rightly have an axe to grind with the aggressors, whether the person is a Black, Jew, Native American, Indian, etc.