Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "'I need you to stop!': 'Leftist' MSNBC host schooled by UK historian over Queen's legacy" video.

  1.  @drse2546  No, but it is a good idea. After that we can start on the Vikings and the Normans. Should be nice little earners.
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  2. You miss the point. In the eyes of these people, only British Slavery was ever Bad Slavery. That practised by others was simply an early form of social service. The Portuguese transported more slaves to the New World than the British ever did, but cries of 'Henry the Navigator must fall' seem conspicuous by their absence. Moreover, modern slavery doesn't seem to concern them much either. After all, who cares if child labour is used to produce the cheap trainers, clothes, and smartphones that they desire? However, becoming excited about something which ended, in Britain's case, almost 200 years ago, is much more fun. Isn't virtue-signalling wonderful!!
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  3.  @paulmccloud9395  Ah, but modern slavery is needed, to produce the smartphones, cheap clothes, and trainers these people like. Far easier to virtue-signal relentlessly about something which ended around 200 years ago, and which can't possible inconvenience them.
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  4. The reality is that these leftists have become aware of how much of a tiny (if inordinately influential) minority they are, and are becoming increasing hysterical and irrational as a result.
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  5. The vast majority of people would agree with you. Unfortunately, a clique of embittered leftists seem to hold positions in the media and education out of all proportion to their numbers. It seems that, as they realise how small a group they truly are, they feel the need to become increrasingly irrational.
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  6.  Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace  'The British killed many more than 600k people in their quest for colonialism.' That is rather a bold statement. I assume that you can support it with a credible source?
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  7. The left are never able to leave politics out of anything.
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  8.  SUTTYMCFC  I would like to believe that, but have doubts.
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  9. That isn't the way it works. When a left-winger makes an outrageous statement, they use the 'Freedom of Speech' argument to justify it. However, when someone else makes an argument which disagrees with them, the same left-wingers scream hysterically for cancellation of the villain concerned. Since the idea of education was abolished in favour of indoctrination, this will become increasingly the norm. George Orwell predicted it years ago.
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  10.  @tracyshute5399  Actually, giving them the benefits of Western technology, medicine, education, and law., as had been happening for almost 100 years. Why do you think the population of India increased so rapidly during the Raj? A tiny number of Britons administed India, generally through a large network of Indian civil servants. The tragedy of the deaths from Partition should be placed at the feet of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who insisted upon a separate Moslem nation. Needless to say, it won't be, of course. Not when there are easier, if incorrect, targets. What, by the way, do you think the British were 'doing to the people of India in the 1940's?'
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  11. You think that it is possible to debate several hundred years of history in three or four minutes? How charmingly naive. Especially when the interviewer chose to talk over the historian for most of the time.
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  12.  @joemoody7440  'Barbaric Colonial History?' Compared to most Empires, the British were almost saintly, whatever idiots or ill-educated people might think. Name any other Imperial Power which voluntarily gave independence to colonies, and still maintained friendly relations with them 80 years later.
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