zlacker

>>xd+(OP)
As someone whose people and grandparents suffered under British rule, really don’t care.

British imperialism is a bloodstain that I’m not gonna just forget about because the smile behind the menace has passed.

>>moomoo+Tp1
My blood boils everytime I remember how the brits cut off thumbs of my people, the silk weavers.

People underestimate the atrocities done by British empire, one tiny example is when they chopped off thumbs of handloom weavers to stop the Indian business spread within India in order to sell their goods from Manchester produced from the stolen cotton from India again, my clan of people were the silk weavers since more than a millennium and were wiped out of existence. Even now I sometimes hear the horror stories from my Grandpa who lost a lot of kin and daily bread due to the greedy pigs and jealous barbarians that the empire was.

The words imperialism and colonialism don't do justice for the horrors they brought upon us.

I generally have empathy towards the dead, but for this incident, I hardly care.

>>Onewil+kJ1
Do you also hold that against Liz Truss? She and Queen Elizabeth played equal parts in those atrocities; ie none, even though they are part of the same institutions that did have a part in that history.

>>froste+xM1
I don't hold this against anybody who wasn't directly involved in the atrocities.

I've posted the same here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32775652

Edit: With all those things in perspective I ask the same question, would the late Queen of England have given up imperialism and colonialism and gave the nations to themselves if she lived during that era? Or was it convenient that she or anyone in power now didn't have to oversee the imperialism.

>>Onewil+GN1
Do you really think her abdicating the throne would have done anything at all to solve these perceived wrongs?

To answer your first question, yes, and she did. During her reign, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and other Commonwealth nations were all granted full state sovereignty. Prior to that, they had some independence, but were ultimately under the control of the UK. Some of these countries still retain her/King Charles as a head of state, but he holds no power over them, and he has an independent representative (in Canada, this is the governor-general, who theoretically holds more power than the prime minister).