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05-02-2020, 00:35 | #2 |
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A father stares at the severed hand and foot of his five-year-old daughter as punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota, in Belgian Congo, 1904. Last edited by Manach; 05-02-2020 at 00:42. Reason: Removing NSFW imagary - link remains. |
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05-02-2020, 00:59 | #3 | |
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If what you have relayed is the full amount of what was posted in the other site, then my comment is: this is not worth my time. If what you have relayed is less than the full amount of what was posted in the other site, then my comment is: why are you censoring this? ![]() |
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05-02-2020, 12:39 | #5 | |
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Would you like to say more? Would others like to contribute? Is there any merit at all in what I read on the other site? If I might momentarily don the mantle of the Devil's Advocate: Take Slavery: From the same general direction as the assertion quoted lin my OP, admittedly a right-wing direction, came the assertion that more slaves were taken from Africa to the Arab world and Turkey than were taken by Europeans to the Americas,. There was much local collusion in the latter trade. I believe that Mauretania was the last country on the planet to officially abolish slavery, in 1962, while in reality it remains rampant there. If memory serves me correctly the "abolition" in Mauretania has resulted in just one prosecution. Last edited by feargale; 05-02-2020 at 14:20. |
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05-02-2020, 15:04 | #7 |
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“Were Africa’s best years in the colonial era?” - Yes, if you were a Belgian tyrant making money off rubber plantations. If you already knew about the likes of Leopold and their actions, then I have serious misgivings about your motivation for asking this question. Just because the Arabs did something before the Europeans doesn’t make it right. Sure it’s alright to rob the granny who lives down the street, some gang did it last week already so it’s acceptable now. Last edited by yoke; 05-02-2020 at 15:13. |
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05-02-2020, 20:43 | #8 | |
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OK. Put it another way: was Arab slavery equally bad or worse? What era was/is better than the colonial era? P.S. Would it ever occur to you that I might want to equip myself to answer the person who made the original assertion? Last edited by feargale; 05-02-2020 at 21:33. |
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05-02-2020, 22:09 | #9 | |
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And then when you do finally contribute something like here, please provide a source for it, an assertion is not acceptable |
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06-02-2020, 09:17 | #11 |
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Slavery cannot be discussed while ignoring supply factors such as the role of tribal warfare. Ban slavery and it is replaced by genocide. Most of Africa is a basket-case economically, largely due to corrupt leaders and complicit global trade partners and Swiss bankers. It's a stupid thread. Are we heading in the direction of Dr. Watson?
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06-02-2020, 09:49 | #12 | |
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But this is balls. The West African slave market boomed when the whiteys turned up, looking to buy large numbers and offering top dollar. Wars expanded to increase the supply of new slaves to meet booming demand. The rulers of the coastal slave-trading states used the cash they got from selling slaves to buy western arms to increase their capacity to attack their neighbours and capture more slaves. What else would you expect them to do? |
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Yes, the Algerians loved the French, they loved the unspeakable torture that happened to them, they loved the French killing hundreds of thousands of their countrymen.
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Weren't Ireland's best years under Cromwellian occupation? |
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