What you won, alas, is the votes of people kept ignorant of the atrocities of Empire by wilful historical amnesia. Congratulations!
I won. "Most [Brits] think the British Empire is more something to be proud of (59%) rather than ashamed of (19%)."https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/07/26/britain-proud-its-empire/ …
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The choice,
@ShashiTaroor, was between Britain's empire and other, much worse ones. You don't have an answer to this.pic.twitter.com/pQRdnGpVGg
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Logical fallacy. Britain doing the morally right thing in going up against the evil of Hitler does not absolve the empire of its many sins.
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The presence or absence of viable alternatives to empire is irrelevant to the moral status of actions carried out by colonial governments.
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No matter how much its glossed over, the regime likr all other regimes was evil & the Brits were masters in someone elses home.
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The Empire spread liberal democracy around the globe like nothing before or since.
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I hope there's sarcasm in that tweet. There are no slaves or subjects in a democracy. There are citizens -with rights.
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There's always grey areas at the edges of civilisation. Vast areas of the globe would still be tribal or monarchic today, were it not for BE
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As empires go the British was benign to beneficial. Way better than Spanish that brought disease and death to an entire continent.
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In what universe is it ever okay to steal someone's land? Indigenous peoples have never recovered.
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The method of which they are ignorant will return to haunt them in the guise of contempt. Offered no alternative but self-justifying denial.
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Astonishing! From an historian! Brexit:"Countries so enormously deluded about their history make enormous mistakes":https://bloom.bg/2v8tFPG
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I suspect the majority of the people who lived in countries who were ruled by the British Empire would disagree. I guess they don't count.
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... Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen massacre.
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Shouldn't this poll be done in Ireland, Kenya, India, etc.?
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Any historian who says "I won" based on public polling of a narrative he advances is not a historian but a propagandist.
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Worse, he's a troll.
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I've always been proud of it. We did good and bad, but overall far better came out of it.
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So stealing from other countries is acceptable
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Are you going to complain about the Romans? Greeks? Persians? Vikings? angles? Saxons? Mongols? Celts? Mohammed? Zulus? It's history.
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The pride is the issue
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Pride is not the issue. If you dislike having pride in this country, because you cannot separate the good and bad and blur. You've issues.
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I'm not going to argue with you because you are missing the point. Colonialism has little to do with ww2 or anything else you mention.
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Colonialism, a fact of history. You judge from the comfort of modern day. Through a prism of comfort when you've never fought for anything.
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It's being proud of it which was the poll, not whether it happened. I've fought many battles thank you
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