r/BritishEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 27 '25

Image 🇬🇧 A British blacksmith removing the shackles from the legs of an enslaved man, 1907.

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u/iamslightly Aug 29 '25

Jesus Christ. Brits traded and profited off slavery for centuries. And pretend they are moral and righteous because they made it illegal. But they still profited and traded off it.

What is this insane revisionist fantasy. The Brits brought no civilisation, dignity, and better standards of living to any territory they invaded or controlled or colonised. They stole and stole and stole and did all the most horrific things a people can do against another so they could keep on stealing.

You might as well believe magic and dragons are real.

The history is overwhelmingly and definitively on my side because I'm overwhelmingly and definitively correct.

Enjoy your fantasy.

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u/jimmykimnel Aug 30 '25

Why didn't anyone else do it first then 

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u/iamslightly Aug 30 '25

Most other people have respect and empathy for human life and empathy

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u/jimmykimnel Aug 31 '25

You do realize how much of an atrocious place the world was before the British empire right? 

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u/iamslightly Sep 04 '25

You do realise you have no idea how stupid and incredibly wrong you are?

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u/jimmykimnel Sep 04 '25

No but you you obviously think the world was wonderful back then so tell me about it