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SF author, he/him. Next novella: ESCAPE FROM PUROLAND (July '21): Next novel: INVISIBLE SUN (Sept '21). Resident of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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    1. Charlie Stross‏Verified account @cstross 8 Jun 2020

      Can’t help thinking that the movement to tear down statues of slavers and imperialists around the UK has also been energized by a backlash against all the Union Flag waving triumphalist racist garbage we’ve been forced to swallow for 4 years in the name of Brexit. /1

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    2. Charlie Stross‏Verified account @cstross 8 Jun 2020

      Many supporters see Brexit is a xenophobic, racist project. Add elevated BAME deaths due to exposure to COVID19. Add #BlackLivesMatter , add systemic police racism in the UK, *and add the way Brexit has become a touchstone for the hard right* and there’s an explosive mix. /2

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    3. Charlie Stross‏Verified account @cstross 8 Jun 2020

      By wrapping himself in a Union flag and chanting “get Brexit done” Boris Johnson has energized racists and fascists. He’s failed to seek common ground with the 48% who voted *against* this steaming pile of nationalist shite. Before this is done, they’ll dynamite Nelson’s Column.

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    4.  🌈 🌈BritishlyDelicious 🌈 🌈‏ @BritishlyDelish 8 Jun 2020
      Replying to @cstross

      Absolutely, this 'trumpeting' of what it means to be British has made lots of people question what that actually is and whether they should actually be proud of a lot of what Britain has 'given' to the world. Have we actually given more than we've taken, for one?

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      Charlie Stross‏Verified account @cstross 8 Jun 2020
      Replying to @BritishlyDelish

      That's difficult to answer. While the UK has undoubtedly given the world some good things—penicillin, the steam engine, Yorkshire terriers—it's difficult to tell in any case whether the UK would have come up with them without simultaneously leaving a hideous legacy of empire.

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        2. Charlie Stross‏Verified account @cstross 8 Jun 2020
          Replying to @cstross @BritishlyDelish

          A moral calculus that tried to weigh in the balance folks who survived illness due to pencillin against people who died in the Bengal famine would be blatantly morally bankrupt. So let's not even go there.

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        3. Charlie Stross‏Verified account @cstross 8 Jun 2020
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          What I *can* say is that the existence of the British Empire magnified the effects—on a global scale—of phenomena local to the British isles, whether for better or worse. (Just as today events in the USA resonate globally, even though the USA is only 5% of the human population.)

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        2.  🌈 🌈BritishlyDelicious 🌈 🌈‏ @BritishlyDelish 8 Jun 2020
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          Oh absolutely, it was definitely rhetorical as far as answering it fully on Twitter. More to promote thought and a recognition of the cultures we have taken from. I don't think many people appreciate the sheer amount of wealth we took out of India, for example.

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        3. Charlie Stross‏Verified account @cstross 8 Jun 2020
          Replying to @BritishlyDelish

          It's an *interesting* question but I wouldn't trust any answer delivered by an historian of British descent writing within living memory (say, 120 years) of the end of the British empire (arbitrary: 1996, departure from Hong Kong). Leave it to posterity.

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