Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Dutch King apologizes for the Netherlands' role in slavery | DW News" video.

  1.  @weekdays_warrior  What's the Dutch word for whataboutism?
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  2. You don't have to imagine it. King Fhilippe wrote a formal letter of apology to the president of DRC in 2020.
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  3. Don't ever take part in a pub quiz.
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  4.  @UkraineNeeds  The Dutch colonies were predominantly in the West Indies and the East Indies. Why just focus on Africa in condemning colonialism? For good measure, you might as well include Siberia and the parts of Central Asia and the Far East that Russia colonises to this day.
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  5. 'Koning Flip' beat the Dutch to it by three years. You Kiwis, too.
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  6. He's in Belgium. He wrote a nice letter of apology to the president of DRC in 2020. Sorry if I made you feel less self-righteous.
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  7. Liar liar, pants on fire. The Dutch East Indies were under Japanese occupation during WW2.
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  8.  @Worldaffairslover  Anyone with a Dutch education would know that, but about your movie, what is it called? Is it on Netflix?
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  9.  @weekdays_warrior  So what's whataboutisme in bahasa?
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  10. @mauritsvanoranje6725 I'm talking about logical fallacies here. You just committed one yourself, too. I don't know if jumping headlong to conclusions qualifies as a logical fallacy as well, but you committed that one, too.
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  11. Every country in Europe? We had no role in the slave trade. What do we -- and all the others who missed out -- do to pass muster with you?
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  12. Great wisdom? I wouldn't go that far. King Wim-Alex has a knack for embarrassing himself. He should take early retirement to become the airline pilot that he always wanted to be and leave it to his wife, who has a good head on her shoulders, to reign.
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  13.  @NZobservatory  Good for you.
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  14. Give it time. The Brits aren't quite done congratulating themselves for putting a stop to slavery -- for totally unselfish reasons, they insist.
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  15. Well done. The obvious didn't escape you.
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  16.  @definitlynotbenlente7671  Thanks for chiming in, but the OP was on about alleged Dutch brutality in the East Indies during WW2. WW2 ended in 1945.
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  17.  @Worldaffairslover  You should pay better attention. 'De Oost' occurs in 1946. That's after WW2.
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  18.  @definitlynotbenlente7671  You're off on a tangent then.
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  19.  @Worldaffairslover  Oh, a straw man fallacy. I'm not defending brutality -- I'm defending facts. You play fast and loose with facts.
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  20.  @Worldaffairslover  You must be terribly monolingual if you can't figure out that 'De Oost' translates to 'The East'. I didn't know they still made your kind.
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  21.  @Worldaffairslover  Yet you speak a West Germanic language. Also, 'De Oost' is 'l'Est' in French. Not a big diff.
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  22.  @Worldaffairslover  Uh, West Germanic languages are closely related. The Dutch are quick to pick up English. The reverse would also be true if the English weren't so freaked out by foreign languages. It's like an auto-shutoff procedure is initiated whenever an Englishman is exposed to a foreign language.
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  23.  @Worldaffairslover  No Dutchman expects you to take Dutch in school. Working for multinationals throughout the world, it struck me how Brits (and your anglosphere friends) struggled to understand foreigners who spoke imperfect English. The irony was at its peak when I had to "translate" for my British colleague in Singapore, from Singlish to English. I spoke no more Mandarin, Cantonese or Malay than he did. My monolingual colleague was just overcome by culture shock. Our customer had a good laugh about it afterwards.
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  24.  @Worldaffairslover  You don't say. You'd think I would've picked up on that, having lived in Singapore for fifteen years. In the end, my local friends thought I was a bad influence on their kids, since I spoke Singlish to them.
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  25.  @Worldaffairslover  What are Mandarin, Cantonese and Malay other than Asian languages? And how would non-English-speaking Europeans understand any of them better than native English-speakers? We multilingual continentals have a natural curiosity for foreign languages, whereas you panic and go into shut-off mode.
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  26.  @Worldaffairslover  Mandarin, Cantonese and Malay are "broken English"? It's a pity Dunce caps are no longer allowed in school, because you should wear one.
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  27.  @Worldaffairslover  Whoosh!
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  28.  @ignatiusryd2031  Did you have a point, too, or do you just admire your own writing?
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  29.  @ignatiusryd2031  Where have I claimed anything to that effect? You, too, are committing a straw man fallacy.
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  30. He should abdicate, like he's been threatening to do. Royals are another undesirable throwback, like slavery.
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  31. DW is German, not Dutch. King Leopold II was literally the King of the Belgians. You don't know your continental neighbours well, do you? 😅
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  32. Great minds think alike. The Netherlands should come up with a scheme to help developing countries and make a several billions of euros available to it annually. I have a good name for it, too: development aid. What do mean when you say it's not a novel concept? By the way, the Dutch colonies were predominantly in the East Indies and the West Indies. You're somehow hung up on Africa.
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  33. I distinctly remember there was such a thing as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.
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  34. The frugal Dutch will never agree to any monetary settlements that would break them. It goes against the laws of nature.
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  35.  @Bruintjebeer6  The Dutch are a bit lazy when it comes to truly mastering English. It always cracks me up when you literally translate your idioms to English, confident that foreigners will understand what you're on about. Then the monkey comes out of the sleeve and you sit with the baked pears.
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