Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "DW Documentary" channel.

  1. Except that it would be BS. The Dutch did more than half of Europe's shipping, that's where the wealth came from. The colonial trade was peanuts in comparison.
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  2. What a load of nonsense. The Dutch did not take part in the transatlantic slavery until 1637 because it was controversial and part of a theological debate, slavery was outlawed in the Dutch Republic and the exception for the colonies surely was not self evident. It didn't bring a great deal of wealth either, as the WIC was financially problematic most of the time and colonial trade was peanuts to the Dutch anyway, as their European merchant fleet was bigger than that of the rest of Europe combined. Bulk shipping, week in week out, wheat, salt, iron, cloth, rye, whatever. That's where the big money was, not in ships sailing for one year to the Far East and then another year back. If you want to do your obligatory virtue signalling in a video about paintings, get your facts straight.
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  3. The only things the war on drugs does is handing the drugs trade to warriors. The multiculturalism is just a complication. People can get rich by being violent, so the violent people dominate. We don't see that in the alcohol trade for a reason.
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  4. You don't have to be a climate denialist or fatalist to see this a stupid propaganda video.
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