The American Revolution, in the end, was hardly an admirable cause - it ended up being the US's elites going "If we're gonna be doing all this slavery and genocide we're keeping the goddamn money" - and yet seen in this light how can you not feel great contempt for the UK
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Everyone who, say, worked at Ford could be treated *as though* they lived in a social democracy with a welfare safety net, they could gatekeep Black people from working there and pretend they didn't exist, and in the prosperity of the 50s they thought that could last forever
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It's race It's always race, which is to say it's always the legacy of colonization, genocide and slavery, which is something that Brits get to pretend doesn't affect them because they did it and turned around and walked away
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NHS would've been a much harder sell to the British voting populace if it applied to the whole population of India too, wouldn't it? Or the former possessions in the Caribbean? Or if the AmRev hadn't happened and you had to pay for healthcare for Black people in Alabama
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But no, they divested from Empire when it got too troublesome and expensive, kept the money, went into retirement and tried to pretend they've always been one of the nice countries Cracking their shitty jokes "Indigenous studies? Well here English history IS indigenous", har har
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