Generations of wealthy Brits sitting in their green little island sipping their tea and making wry jokes about their charmingly antiquated folkways while the greatest human suffering ever imagined in history occurs over three centuries across five continents to pay for their shit
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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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There was lots of employment discrimination in Detroit, but even so, thousands of black people had worked at River Rouge for decades when Ford recognized the UAW and would continue to do so.
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