Meme - "Bea Cetina: BREAKING NEWS: Colonizers Angry When Colonized"
Licensed Memes: The Banterbury Tales: "I'm glad you agree colonisation is bad. Thankfully, no English person today is a coloniser but I'm glad you acknowledge those from outside are indeed colonisers."
Scammers ‘defrauding British women as retribution for colonialism’ - "Fraudsters in Ghana are deliberately targeting British women in online scams as retribution for colonialism, a report has claimed. Accra, Ghana’s capital, is a hub for gangs of cyber criminals, known as Sakawa Boys, who pose as white men on Facebook to manipulate affluent Western women into entering a relationship... Interpol marked West Africa as a new regional hub for “online scam centres”, where people are tricked into working as digital scammers through fake job advertisements, pushed into debt bondage and held in a compound against their will. On Friday, more than 1,200 scammers accused of targeting nearly 88,000 people were arrested in a sweeping crackdown across Africa. The Interpol operation, involving investigators from the UK and 18 African nations, led to £73m being recovered from the raids... British and American women, often those who are vulnerable and seeking romance, are targeted on Facebook by scammers pretending to be white men of good social standing, such as government officials, bankers or soldiers. Dr Lazarus said that not only do the scammers justify their crimes because of Ghana’s colonial history, but also that even some of the police officers sympathised with the criminals’ point of view... “These women are also targeted in line with Sakawa Boys’ moral interpretations of their activities. They believe their actions carry moral repercussions and that middle-aged women are more forgiving, and therefore more likely to pardon them. “A striking feature of my interviews was how offenders framed their scams through the lens of history. Many explicitly drew on colonial exploitation, arguing that what they do is a form of digital reparations. This rationalisation allows them to recast fraud as resistance rather than crime.” The article, titled Fraud as Legitimate Retribution for Colonial Injustice: Neutralisation Techniques in Interviews with Police and Online Romance Fraud Offenders, was published in the journal Deviant Behaviour."
Grievance mongering has very real harms
Why does it seem like many of the ex-British colonies went on to be very successful/highly developed while the Spanish and Portuguese colonies did not? : r/stupidquestions - "It largely comes down to the fact that British colonialism was reliant on industrialism and exploiting the commercial enterprise of other countries. That meant that these countries had infrastructure developed to grow the colonial economy with the profits siphoned off to Britain. When these countries got independence, all of those enterprises were still there, they just needed to be maintained. But also, probably a little controversial, Britain actually somewhat cared about the natives for a decent portion of the British Empire. So there were investments in these countries to improve the food supply, to bring clean water, to develop the agricultural economy by building aqueducts and irrigation infrastructure, to export new technologies like livestock breeds and trains etc."
Meme - Spencer Joseph @SpencerJJoseph: "Do you know why most people in the West know nothing about the indigenous peoples of the Middle East and their ancient cultures ? It’s because fundamentalist Arab-Islamic colonialism erases them."
"MANDEANS GREEK CHALDEANS CYPRIOTS ARMENIANS MARONITES ASSYRIANS COPTS NUBIANS JEWS SAMARITANS PERSIANS DRUZE BALOCH ARAMEANS/SYRIACS KURDS YAZISIDS"
Paul on X - "The Belgians left the Congo with electricity, railroads, Highways and ports. None of those exist today."
Damn colonialism ruining the Congo!
German outlets expose alleged staging of Gaza food photos : r/europe_sub - "'Britain caused many of the current worldwide situations'
Because we tried to build monoethic states post WW2, causing ethnic conflict and ethnic cleansing (India, Pakistan, Israel, Jordan) or because we ignored ethnic lines creating unstable multiethnic states, causing ethnic conflict and ethnic cleansing (Sudan, Sri Lanka, Burma)?"
pagliacci the hated ๐ on X - "“give it baaacckkk” since 2014, India has had over 600 “stolen” artifacts returned to it and we currently only know the confirmed whereabouts of 12 of them. most of the others are allegedly being held at a storage facility that has failed every audit it’s ever had"
Meme - Daily Turkic @DailyTurkic: "Turkish President Erdogan: "Turks have never been colonizers.""
Liberty Prime 7395 @KawaiiSpecOps: "What?! C'mon man! Don't be ashamed of your history"
"The Ottoman Empire in 1683
Directly administered territory
Vassal & autonomous territory
Territory lost before 1683
Vassal territory lost before 1683"
Naturally, there was a lot of cope
Meme - Daily Turkic: "What if Ottomans discovered America first"
Islamicize: "No genocide. No capitalism. Just call to prayer echoing through the Rockies"
christoph @Halalcoholism: "Person who finds it hard to imagine a scenario in which the Ottomans would commit genocide"
BOBBY MARS @bobby_on_mars: "“No capitalism” buddy they had a mercantile empire for hundreds of years"
Meme - i/o @rational_wiki: "Evidence of the existence of rape prior to European colonialism: Code of Hammurabi in Mesopotamia, the Old Testament, ancient Chinese records (e.g., Shiji by Sima Qian), ancient Egyptian texts, Assyrian records, Mesoamerican codices (e.g., Mayan), Roman law and Justinian Code, ancient Greek texts, ancient Hindu Texts (e.g., The Mahabharata and Ramayana), Herodotus’ Histories, observations of native behavior by European colonialists... And of course many of the places Europeans colonialized had rapey cultures but no historical records of it because they had not yet developed written language."
Kate Kelly: "Rape did not exist among native nations prior to white contact. I repeat, rape *did not exist* among native nations prior to white contact."
Meme - "Christopher Columbus was just a simple refugee. He longed for a better life in a new land. A dreamer bringing with him nothing but Diversity, Inclusion and a suitcase of gabagool"
Meme - "The Muslim conquests of territories were significantly different from Western colonialism. Our motivation wasn't rooted in worldly gains or plundering wealth. In many cases, we were provoked, leading to conquests. Upon conquest, we became an integral part of the land, rather than"
Scottrhawk on X - "By the way, the British not only respected local customs, their historical and archeological research often recovered civilizations otherwise lost to history, like the great Indian empire of Ashoka. Champollion recovered the list secrets of the hieroglyphics. Arab conquerors, especially early on, had no interest in prior infidel civilizations, but simply saw subject non-Muslim populations as a source of labor wealth. And Muslim traders vastly expanded slave trading networks across Africa and the Indian Ocean.,"
Meme - @Ayishamuhamad: "The aim of every settler colonial country is to make life impossible for indigenous people. FREE all occupied People."
@Ayishamuhamad: "We should never have stopped." *Areas Under Muslim rule at one point or another in history*
"Colonialism" is something only white people can do
Meme - Dr. Maalouf @realMaalouf: "Arab Muslims are the biggest colonizers that have ever existed in the history of humanity." "ISLAMIC CONQUEST BETWEEN 7tth AND 9th CENTURY" "How come no one ever talks about that. Or the 4 to 10 million estimated black African slaves that they traded. And that number doesn't include slaves from other regions."
Liza Rosen on X - "Muslim Influencer explains why Muslims are the only justified colonial project. She insists that as invaders, Muslims were given divine justification to force their rule on others by force—ie, invade, take over lands, murder, rape, enslave, oppress and plunder the local non-Muslim population which refuses to submit to Islam. According to her, when Muslims take over and do all the atrocities Islam orders them to commit, they actually bring justice to the places where non-Muslims maintained freedom, equality and human rights in violation of Islam. You see, when infidels simply live their lives without taking into account the laws of Islam, Muslims get offended and feel like the infidels inflect unbearable suffering, oppression, and injustice upon them. What is your response to her?"
It only counts as colonialism if white people do it. Christians thinking that their colonialism was justified by divine mandate or oppressive local government or practises (e.g. sutee) are racist, ethnocentric white supremacists. The Byzantines oppressing religious minorities was bad but Muslims not allowing religious minorities that are not Peoples of the Book to exist is good because of divine mandate, but there is still no compulsion in religion
Meme - "HAITI 200 YEARS AFTER CEASING TO BE A EUROPEAN COLONY *trash, ruined buildings*
SINGAPORE 50 YEARS AFTER CEASING TO BE A EUROPEAN COLONY *modern buildings*"
Meme - Khaled Beydoun @KhaledBeydoun: "If France doesn't want "immigrants," it shouldn't have colonized Algeria for 132 years."
Waz Swindlehurst: "Europe unable to handle migrants from countries they colonised. You made your bed so lie in it."
Devonteshiquanda @Devonteshiquand: "Algerians were raiding Europe and kidnapping them into slavery long before France colonized it. Consider colonization being payback for the Barbary slave trade."
Apolitical on X - "Saying that White countries deserve to be flooded with brown migrants because of colonialism is acknowledging that you people are a plague and a punishment"
Left wingers see brown and black people as a way to punish the West
Emil Kirkegaard on X - "It's occasionally claimed that Hutus and Tutsis are actually the same people, and that European colonizers made up these groups for nefarious reasons. However, there are a few genetic studies of them. They are not the same people genetically."
Meme - Crying Black Man: "WE CAN'T DEVELOP BG WE WUZ COLONIZED BUT WE WUZ KANGZ WE MADE EVERYTHING"
Africa 2000 years ago: *mud huts*
Africa today: *mud huts*
Hiroshima, Japan 1945 *devastated*
Hiroshima, Japan 2020 *modern city*
Warsaw 1945 after hombing: *devastated*
Warsaw 2020 *modern city*"
Queen Bob on X - "I'm sorry that the British people went to India, and introduced an uncorrupted legal system, built bridges, trains, roads, universities, aquaducts, viaducts, schools, hospitals, trains, banned suttee (the burning of widows), kept out the Russians, the Alfredi, and the Afghanistani armies, banned the thuggees, brought advancements in farming, medicine, technology, telecommunications, created trade routes, and created a lingua franca and common currency. I feel so ashamed. Thank you for apologising for me Chris. Whilst my ancestors were 3000ft down a tin mine whilst their kids died of lung disease and hunger, I'm reminded by pretentious millionaire cunts like you, how ashamed I should feel for something I played no part in. X"
Coldplay concert: Chris Martin apologises for British rule at concert: Thank you for forgiving all the bad things Great Britain did
captive dreamer on X - "Did you know that the oldest institution in India dedicated to study of Sanskrit was founded by the British governor of Bombay, Jonathan Duncan, in 1791? Thank an Anglo-Saxon for this! Thank you Anglo-Saxons!"
๐ฟ Woe to those who dwell upon the earth ๐ฟ on X - "Without European intervention, hardly any of the ancient history of any other race would even be known."
๐ฟ Woe to those who dwell upon the earth ๐ฟ on X - "The Rosetta Stone was found buried in a random wall during demolition. Machu Piccu was an overgrown, abandoned nothing until Hiram Bingham stumbled upon it. Archeology & anthropology are entirely European conceits. We're the only reason the riches of dirt world are preserved."
Meme - Steve Sailer @Steve_Sailer: "From SteveSailer dot Net: Why has Haiti fallen behind even the better sort of West African countries like Ivory Coast and Ghana, and far behind its Caribbean neighbors like Jamaica and Dominican Republic?"
"The trees have long been stripped from the hills on the Haitian side of the border with the still-forested Dominican Republic."
Clearly, this is because the Dominican Republic was never colonised
Meme - Taz @ItsTaz1989: "The Indian government killed more Indians between independence and 1970 than the British killed throughout the entire period of the Raj — just to put Kaur’s anti-British propaganda into context."
"Alan noted that more people had been killed by police firing on riotous mobs in independent India than in the entire period of the Raj-this before the worst violence of the 1970s and 1980s. Yet the comparatively small punitive action at Amritsar by Acting Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer of 1919 continued to dominate "atrocity studies" in India. In Pakistan, military rule"
Narinder Kaur @narindertweets: "I am in Punjab at the Jalliawala Bagh Massarce memorial wall, where you can see the bullet marks fired at a crowd of thousands ordered by General Dyer during British Rule. We will never forget the brutality of the British and how many thousands of lives were lost in 1919 (not forgetting how the very same people had just helped them win a war)"
Meme - Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z: "I don't know, if I ran an account called Irish Unity I wouldn't support the principle that if there's a smaller island off the coast of your country you're entitled to annex it, but that's just me."
Irish Unity ๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ธ @IrishUnity: "The British Ambassador to Argentina has stormed out of a meeting in Buenos Aires when local politician Augustina Propato wore a t-shirt emblazoned with, “Las Malvinas Son Argentinas - The Malvinas Are Argentinian”"
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on X - "When you read about colonial history, what you find is that, in every single case (the only (arguable) exception I've found is the Opium War), whatever Europeans did to the natives, the natives were doing far worse to each other, and the Europeans ended it.
Yes, even the Belgian Congo:"
Meme - Paul Williams @freemonotheist: "The difference between conquest and colonialism"
"Islamic Conquest
Primarily driven by religious motivations to spread Islam,
Respected local cultures and governance.
Economic exchange and educational institutions were encouraged.
Colonialism
Primarily driven by economic gain and maximum resource extraction.
Imposed their own culture and language. Suppression of indigenous cultures was common.
the Indigenous populations would be worker slaves to their colonial masters."
Woffydo @woffydo: "“The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history.” [ Will Durant (1885-1981) the well-known American historian ] Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage - By Will Durant MJF Books. 1935. p. 459 and 505 and 524 – 600)."
AF Post on X - "Mexico’s newly-elected female President Claudia Sheinbaum demands Spain apologize for colonizing Aztecs, Incans, and Mayans. Follow: @AFpost"
Ada Lluch Mannarino on X - "Darling, without Spain your country would not even exist. You should thank us."
Mike Solana on X - "when will descendants of the aztecs be apologizing for the culture of mass human sacrifice?"
Meme - "Oh gosh, did I just go and conquer a native empire that was enslaving its neighbors, practicing human sacrifice and cannibalism, teach them to read and write, convert them to Christianity and give them modern ideas of sanitation? Did I just do that? I'M SORRY!"
Thread by @whyvert on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Settler colonialism is trending. Some current examples. ๐งต 1. China. Settled loyal Han in disloyal Xinjiang (from 90s). Settled 1m loyal mainlanders in disloyal Hong Kong. A road across Xinjiang's Taklamakan desert China built to entice settlers. Image 2. Indonesia. Settled about 300k loyal Javanese in West Papua. Many around the giant Grasberg gold and copper mine, which had been a target of attacks by Papuan independence activists. Image West Papuans are not pleased. Image 3. Morocco. Sent settlers to Western Sahara, which it has occupied since 1975. One source says Moroccans are now a majority of the half-million or so population. Image If Russia conquers Ukraine, or China conquers Taiwan, we can be sure that they will try to settle loyalists in their new territories. 4. Bangladesh. After defeating an insurgency (1970s-90s) by the local ethnic group in the Chittagong Hills, Bangladesh settled loyal Bengalis in the area. Image 5. Sri Lanka. During the civil war (1983-2009), the Sri Lanka government settled Sinhalese in Tamil areas as a loyal bulwark. Image 6. Iraq. In the 1960s to 2003, Iraq had a policy of Arabization of Kurdish areas. It burned Kurdish villages, deported the people, and settled Arabs, especially around the oil fields. Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in northern Iraq - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%27athist_Arabization_campaigns_in_northern_Iraq Two conclusions: (1) In recent times, the vast majority of settler colonialism has been in the non-Western world. (2) But it gets little attention because it is "brown-on-brown". If whites aren't involved, it's invisible."
Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui on X - "You know what the colonisers didn’t count on? Those of us born and raised in the West - in the mothership of the colony, turning on them. They thought we’d be forever indebted to them for their benevolence in how they imprison us. They thought they could colonise our minds like they colonised our lands. They didn’t know we’d take their gab and garb and use them as tools to free the rest. They didn’t know their empire would eventually end by implosion."
Wesley Yang on X - "It was only liberals who thought this wouldn’t happen Anti-immigrant nativists assumed it would from the get go and tried and failed to stop it Progressives also thought it would happen and welcomed it because they share in the goal Now we know who was right"
Dual loyalty: "This is not happening, and it's good that it is"
Of course, if you accuse those with immigrant backgrounds and heritage of trying to destroy the country, you're xenophobic and racist
Sarah Haider ๐พ on X - "“Behold, a picture of me. Am I not beautiful? But wait, there is more! I am unburdened by duty, see? I hold not an ounce of loyalty to those who gave me food and water. I am also blessed with the undisturbed peace of the imbecile—I cheer for the world my parents ran from.”"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "When someone openly says they are your enemy and want to destroy your society, you should take that seriously."
Cirsova - The Dream Lords Live on Kickstarter on X - "immigrants bragging that every immigrant child is a sleeper agent waiting to bring down their nation of residence is pretty good fodder for the "they all have to go back and we should never let any more in" crowd."
Meme - "Decolonize they said, it will be fun they said..."
"Rhodesia circa 1950 *manicured vegetation, Grande Hotel in good upkeep*
Zimbabwe today *wild vegetation, Grande Hotel in ruins, dead (?) child lying on street*
Thread by @WanjiruNjoya on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "When Britain banned the slave trade they sent an unarmed delegation to West Africa to inform the slaver-kings that slavery was henceforth illegal. The slaver-kings slaughtered the British delegation in cold blood. They didn't see why they had to stop slaving. Look up the story of how the Benin Bronzes ended up in Britain. They were seized during a punitive expedition sent by the Royal Navy to avenge this outrage. Slavery was a lucrative trade for West African slaver kingdoms. They'd traded slaves with Arabs for centuries. They didn't see what gave Britain the right to tell them their own business. "Who are you to ban the slave trade? Who made you king of the world?" That was their view. They're still slaving to this day. They don't see the problem ๐คท♀️"
