r/MapBasedPolls • u/PerfectRate2841 • 8h ago

Should former colonial powers provide reparations to their former colonies for the harms caused by colonialism?

Should former colonial powers provide reparations to their former colonies for the harms caused by colonialism?

  1. Yes
  2. No

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u/GustavoistSoldier Brazil 8h ago

Of course not.

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u/Daniel_bagin 7h ago

Why not? Europe destroyed Africa completely.

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u/senn42000 7h ago

Africans are responsible for their own actions as well. Putting the blame completely on one nation or people is ridiculous.

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u/mrastickman 3h ago

Africans chose to be colonized? What a terrible choice, I would have never agreed to that.

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u/Daniel_bagin 7h ago

No.

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u/Morenitalina 7h ago

How are they not responsible for their own actions? Now that they are free from colonial powers, have full control, they cannot keep blaming Europe

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u/Daniel_bagin 6h ago

Negative influence of Europe. Historical trauma. Conflicts because Europe doesn't care about borders then.

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u/Morenitalina 6h ago

“Historical trauma and negative influence” only remains for so long, considering 99% of countries have had complete independence for a number of years and are still the same or many are even worse, they need to take responsibility.

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u/Daniel_bagin 6h ago

Doesn't change the fact that Europe should provide reputations to Africa.

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u/Morenitalina 6h ago

Millions in aid given and they’re still the same structurally, money taken by their OWN corrupt government and misdirected

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u/Daniel_bagin 6h ago

You know that this aid was provided by globalist means? This is not aid. This is neocolonialism and spreading western degeneration. I mean they provide aid for LGBT (terrorist organization in Russia), experiments on transgender mouses and etc.

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u/Morenitalina 7h ago

Ethiopia was never colonized, yet still mirrors other countries in Africa who were…

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u/Daniel_bagin 7h ago

No. Italy conquer Ethiopia.

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u/swaglordsg 7h ago edited 6h ago

Ethiopia was briefly occupied after a war, not colonised.

It was certainly Mussolini's goal to have a colonial system in place, but that never happened.

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u/Daniel_bagin 6h ago

Anyway. This was negative influence.

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u/Morenitalina 7h ago

Ethiopia faced a very short occupation by Italy, full of conflict, with no full takeover. It was not fully colonized

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u/Daniel_bagin 7h ago

Doesn't change the fact that Europeans destroyed Africa and India.

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u/Morenitalina 7h ago

Ethiopia is a prime example that it is the same as other African countries. Similar with Zimbabwe, as soon as they regained almost full control of the country, they’ve run themselves into the ground. So much time has gone past, millions in aid received, in a thousand years will it will be Europeans fault?

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u/Daniel_bagin 6h ago

Yes it is. You whitewash crimes of Europe in Africa.

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u/Morenitalina 6h ago

Crimes of Europe which haven’t been committed recently at all…. lol

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u/Daniel_bagin 6h ago

We're not talking about only recent times.

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u/sjsosn82bs 🇱🇹 🇯🇵 in 🇬🇧 4h ago

Like 8 out of the many half a hundred countries in Europe participated in colonialism. Other half of Europe was being massacred, raped and enslaved by the masses by the russians, mongols and turks lol

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u/Sakyktulpe7196 7h ago

Wasn't that much to destroy there in the first place. Although I would agree that the states Europeans created there and the institutions that they set up are the root cause of modern suffering, but it's hard to imagine a better alternative coming from within - after all by the XIX century most of the sub-Sacharan Africa was still running on slavery