PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 months agoThe two kinds of 'British Bad' from the former colonieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageThe two kinds of 'British Bad' from the former colonieslemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 months agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-squareWarl0k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 months agoThe only reason the US isn’t solidly in the first camp is because they really nailed the genocide over here. Just look at, say, this meme for an example of how they were so effective people don’t even remember it happened to us.
minus-squareSippy Cup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoLess it happened to us, and more we were still calling ourselves British when we started doing it to the people that weren’t.
minus-squareWarl0k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 months ago(oh sorry, I’m native (Iroquois) and I realize now that that ‘us’ in my first comment was not at all clear about that)
The only reason the US isn’t solidly in the first camp is because they really nailed the genocide over here. Just look at, say, this meme for an example of how they were so effective people don’t even remember it happened to us.
Less it happened to us, and more we were still calling ourselves British when we started doing it to the people that weren’t.
(oh sorry, I’m native (Iroquois) and I realize now that that ‘us’ in my first comment was not at all clear about that)