Comments by "" (@tuktuk1959) on "The Present Past" channel.

  1. 6:20 "They were faced with ....." They came to the Netherlands, were the people have certain traditions and a certain culture. If you don't like these traditions and culture, why did you go there? With all due respect, we gave the people of Suriname their independence in a proper way (depth free + the country has a lot of natural resources), but most of them went to the Netherlands. The reason is because they had 0 trust in their own people ruling the country. Then they go to their former colonial overlord, act like the victim and complain about how bad they are. Seriously, there is no such thing as the "right to be Dutch" if you don't like the traditions and the culture, go somewhere else. It's extremely narcisistic to think you should be taken care of by a country just for the sake of it.
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  2. 9:45 Framing at it's finest. I don't say her mothers grandma had an easy life, but how easy do you think life was for the average person in Europe at that time? My family at that time worked long days (6-7 days a week) in the coal mines in the Southern part of Limburg (province in the Netherlands). They got "paid" just enough to buy food and some form of shelter. Slaves didn't get paid, but got food and shelter for free from their owner. Adding to that, slaves were someones property. If a slave died (due to work related issues), the owner lost property, incentivising the owner to take at least a bit of care of the well being of his slaves. If one of my family members died, nobody cared and another person would be hired for the same loan. So, what's the exact difference? Besides location and type of work. This is not just an example, it applies to all rougly all average people and workers that lived in West Europe (life in Eastern European countries like Russia was even worse) regardless of whether they were working in a clothing factory a cleaning hall or in a mine, life used to be really hard just a century ago. We nowadays tend to overvalue the sincerity of the lives slaves had in colonies and we tend to undervalue the lifes average people had back then.
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  3. 5:54 "Activist" this guy said he was going to beat up everyone that wasn't willing to follow the rules of his preaches. This has nothing to do with activism, these individuals exploit the idea of racism and the stupidity of the masses as a business model for their own gains.
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