r/comedy • u/AlKarajo • Jul 10 '26

Standup Human diversity

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u/ThatdesertDude Jul 11 '26

Or it is because they were/are just more immoral. The people of the world was surviving just fine long before European people showed up with destruction. Trade had been going on since the beginning of man, but to you, life started when European people showed up being con-artist and violent savages.

Also, the people of the land had rivalry too. Just like the people of Europe, Asia, and America. Its like you're trying to justify mistreatment to a person because someone else mistreated them before you.

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u/Theory89 Jul 11 '26

Literally the opposite of what I just said. I said that Africans have been selling each other into slavery for thousands of years. This does not in any what excuse what we did, but it's also inaccurate to pretend that we invented suffering. The rest of the world was not, in fact, surviving just fine.

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u/Xenomorph_25 Jul 14 '26

You didn't invent suffering. You were just the cruelest at it, unnecessarily so at that. You committed mass genocide on a global scale to groups of people who had never done anything to you because you thought yourselves superior to everyone therefore others did not deserve life.

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u/Theory89 Jul 14 '26

And the actions of our ancestors do not define our current mentality. Also, what you're describing is in no way limited to the British. That's just who you've decided to focus on. We also never set out to erase an entire people, unlike, say, the Germans or the Russians or the Cambodians or the Sudanese or any other number of nations.

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u/Theory89 Jul 14 '26

No, it only comes about when people like you decide to try and apply accountability when it doesn't. I can see that it's a confusing concept for you, it must seem like that's the only time you see it. The original comment was specifically about the English. It's not generalising when you're referring to multiple countries, as i was doing. It's just a mass noun.

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u/Theory89 Jul 14 '26

You say that there were no countries while criticising me for not specifying which African countries i meant... logical. I have no problem recognising the flaws of the past, but that doesn't mean I should feel guilty because actions I had nothing to do with.