Comments by "Classical LP Vault" (@classicallpvault8251) on "Why the Dutch support colonialism" video.

  1. An apology is not cost-free. Showing submission to those weaker than you out of spite, is a sign of weakness, and other nations like China will see this display of self-loathing as a sign that they can displace the West as the most powerful geopolitical force. They (correctly) estimate that the average willingness to fight for our leading position in the world is lower than theirs. Not good. I don't give a fuck about wether ex-colonial subject nations want apologies from us. I care about keeping the national morale and patriottic pride and a willingness to fight for our self-interest high, by whatever means necessary. History should work like this: rational analysis of past events to make sense of the present, when employed as a field of systematic academic study. But the way it should be taught in schools should be emphasising glorious events and relegating shameful events to the back pages - because there the function is to keep national morale high.
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  2. I'd go further and admit that I'd support Western imperialism even today.
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  3. Stop spreading communist agitation propaganda, because you're fooling no one who hasn't fooled himself into believing this shit already. Religion is an evolutionarily adaptive mechanism allowing individuals to unite as a collective and sacrifice themselves for the common good. It is organic - not a creation. Racism is just a loaded politicised synonym for ethnocentrism, a basic human (and non-human - chimpanzees and baboons are ethnocentric too) instinct required to succesfully compete for territory and resources with other groups of people, and as a way to do character assassinations of ideological opponents. Discrimination is differentiating between various things and again is something completely normal, we differentiate between things in order to make a terribly complex world simpler to understand and to make decisions that our lives may very well depend upon. Again, the term has been used just as a smear against ideological opponents without having to refute any of the content of what they say. Your comment shows a total lack of understanding of basic human nature and a shocking degree of intellectual dishonesty. You turn completely normal innate instincts into an ideological weapon to spread your darn communist beliefs with, because you cannot do so without resorting to intellectually dishonest means. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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  4. Indonesia under Sukarno and later Soeharto murdered 2 million of its own citizens, mostly left-wingers and minorities striving for independence. At no point did we come close to such a body count during colonial rule. The Dutch were much less brutal to the inhabitants of the East Indies than the Javans, who have been running Indonesia since its founding. Ask the Papuas in New Guinea or the Moluccans on Ambon or the Chinese who experienced several pogroms since Indonesia became independent.
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