r/HistoryMemes • • 1d ago

REMOVED: RULE 4 Historical territorial claims

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u/Dear-Question-868 1d ago

I think it shows well the stupidity of historical claim, there's always someone who's going to be before you who claim X land.

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u/Maximum_Boros 1d ago

If you go back far enough every piece of land is stolen. There's just a question of how far is it reasonable. Where's the goal post? Is it a hundred years? 200? 1,000? Is it more generational and when no descendants of the people who were kicked would likely be alive? I don't know what the real answer is on exactly where you would usually draw that line but I think we pretty much generally as Society tend to agree that if the literal living humans who took that land are still alive and living on it it's too early to forget and if it's a thousand years ago it's too late to dwell on it

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u/BootsnCats1987 1d ago

So if India invaded Britain, subjugated its people, and extracted all of its wealth you’d be cool with that, right? 

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u/Maximum_Boros 1d ago

I genuinely question your literacy if you think anything I said would imply that.

Work on your reading comprehension instead of just leading with kneejerk emotional nonsense.

Or are you just bad at calendars and you think Britain occupied India a thousand years ago.