I have this vague memory of a comedy sketch (I wanna say Monty Python, but I can't find it) about colonists telling the natives this land is claimed by Britain "B/c you don't have a flag"
2024-06-20 14:08:52
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Mell :
this was super fascinating. anyone recommend some readings?
2024-06-28 10:38:25
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robin chwan🔻 :
Vatican absolutely has so many sins for what they've done all this time
2024-06-19 11:04:02
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RobertoAndres :
Christianity has been used to do some of the most evil shit in the history of the world.
2024-06-21 04:29:44
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Bemmie :
What I don’t get is that Arthur Phillips orders from King George explicitly stated that he was to form treaties with the indigenous people present in Australia. How is it 240 fucking years later and w
2024-06-20 08:47:18
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Braxus :
The Vatican formally repudiated the doctrine of discovery march last year. Just a fun fact.
2024-06-19 12:20:58
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pauldavidpauldavidpa :
What happens where Aboriginal people built and used farming infrastructure, with planted crops?
2024-06-19 14:42:59
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dyethewholething :
My father believed the Māori people in NZ weren’t using the land “properly” They hadn’t developed it despite them not able to get finance to do so
2024-07-05 03:35:33
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it :
basically they looked seen no infrastructure
2024-06-19 10:42:37
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jerome warren :
I think each of the European colonising powers gained the empires at the point of a gun.
Laws and justification came second. Adam Smith and his Wealth of Nations added the "how to plunder" bit
2024-08-01 00:48:27
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Felix :
adding onto the, hey, we're gonna use the land the way land is meant to be used, ahhh, yeah, then we caused the dust bowls because we didn't know what to do with that land
2024-06-20 16:02:02
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Socks :
I recently learnt it wasn't just Terra Nullius for Britain to take the land but it was also to prevent free settlers buying or trading land from Aboriginal people
2024-06-29 13:45:06
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Shar🥀e :
Yup.
2024-08-15 19:07:31
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rougieboring 🍉 :
We (my white settler ancestors/me, a white settler on so-called australia) couldn’t even keep the fish alive
2024-06-29 02:22:16
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user9204831068826 :
This injustice will continue until the arrogance that pushes it meets its match and gets its hand bitten off.
2024-06-22 13:05:11
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Mongreldan :
I agree accept for small part, while a lot of west Europe was engaging in colonisation most of the south, central and east Europe was conquered by turks or figthimg wars to avoid being conquered.
2024-06-19 21:57:36
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goldjane :
the colonised view of proper land use
2024-06-19 15:56:44
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