Comments by "" (@danieleyre8913) on "Italian Fascism vs Italian Racism" video.

From what I understand; the fascist Italian policies in Ethiopia weren’t really racist, they spent a lot of money trying to develop Ethiopia and lift the living standards and economic productivity of the people there. Individual Italian soldiers and militiamen were certainly racist, and general Graziani (who was not a fascist) had very racist views of black Africans and enacted brutal reprisal policies when dealing with insurgents. But they weren’t as bad as Nazi Germany in that regard.
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The Catholic Irish were treated no worse than peasants in England, Wales and Scotland were. And the Irish peasants weren’t treated any worse after the Cromwellian conquest by their new Anglo masters than they had been treated by the Irish Catholic Lords before the confederate wars, only those former Catholic lords lost out, and they were hardly any moral force of good even in their time. You cannot seriously compare Ireland to the deindustrialisation and cold hearted cruelty that much of the Indian subcontinent suffered at the hands of the east India company then the British Raj. The infrastructural foundations of the modern Irish state were built by British investment in the 18th and 19th and early 20th century. All the railways, the municipal buildings, the canals, the modern docks, the bridges over the Liffey, the attractive Georgian terraces, etc.
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@alessandrodinola4616 Where is your evidence that Graziani had party membership please.
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@tomhalla426 You don’t seem to be very well informed. I fail to see how the Norman invasion was relevant to mention, but in actual fact that was what stamped out the original Irish Christianity and established Roman Catholicism as the mainstream rite in Ireland. And almost all of the English who conquered Ireland with Cromwell and settled in the aftermath were NOT puritans but Anglicans, and who are NOT Protestant either but Episcopalian. Cromwell may have been a puritan but it was only a minor religious movement in England & Scotland and never had much presence in Ireland. The Scots Covenanters who joined the Cromwellian conquest were all Calvinist Protestant Presbyterians though. The animosity of the Irish toward the English did not emerge until the late 17th and 18th centuries, much of which was stirred up by Irish Catholic former gentry whom had been displaced of their lands by the Cromwellian conquerors (essentially manipulating illiterate peasants) & their descendants, and to a lesser degree by the Catholic Church, which of course was also exacerbated by further religious strife across Western Europe. Much of the animosity declined in the latter 19th century.
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@tomhalla426 Well the “WASP” people of the USA and their backward and bigoted ideas have never had anything to do with the UK nor Great Britain.
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@tomhalla426 Well.. …who didn’t hate the Irish at that time?
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@alessandrodinola4616 Was he a member of the fascist party?
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