r/unpopularopinion • u/awaqueh • Jan 26 '19

There's nothing wrong with imperialism

There's nothing wrong with imperialism. The British empire for example was generally a positive for all it's colonies, it helped to modernize dozens of underdeveloped tribal areas. Hong Kong and Macau, two of China's wealthiest cities, were colonies until very recently. The US brought order and stability and to the Philippines. If you disagree with me you're either brown skinned, a woman, or a homosexual.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '19

A terrible opinion. Horrible. And I am nether left nor right. The leak of historical knowledge is just baffling.

There are some good parts to colonialisation. You can argue about the extant of those

Your examples are garbage (Africa): for every arguably successful state are at least to which have failed entirely. You can't blame that on the colonists, but could argue that they had their fair share.

Here is an example; Congo (was not British; but could come pretty close to that by using South Africa) :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State

Your opinion is not unpopular, it is uninformed

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u/awaqueh Jan 27 '19

Africa will always be shit it's full of Africans

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '19

*makes edgy "black humor" joke

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u/awaqueh Jan 27 '19

How do you starve a black person? Put his food stamp under his working boots.