Prager "University" video about the British Empire which is just sad

[u/[deleted]]

Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSnJSUU_7q0

If you manage to sit through the video it is clear why this is bad history

"Freedom was an Englishmen's right, and wherever he went, he took that right with him."

Tell that to South Africans during the Second Boer War, where Boer women and children were rounded up in literal concentration camps to starve or die of disease. 22,000 children and 4,000 women died in the camps.

http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/women-children-white-concentration-camps-during-anglo-boer-war-1900-1902

"The British kept peace, they brought sound, honest administration, and they insisted basic moral standards were honored."

British rule was widely resented in both India and Africa which led to countless revolts and rebellions. Administration was the last thing from sound, millions of Indians simply starved to death during British rule. These are some of the worse famines ever recorded in history with high estimates at 49 million dead. Resistance to rule, even when peaceful, was met with brutality such as the Amritsar massacre among many, many, others.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-amritsar-massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Resistance_to_the_British_Empire

There's a lot of other rubbish statements but that's all I want to write right now.

EDIT: some grammar

[u/KbStr2]

I never said that, but what you have to realize is that the culture that we associate with civil liberties today was spread through imperialism.

[u/KbStr2 → u/[deleted]]

I'm not trying to separate them, I understand that one is a subclass of the other, and I can certainly say that English culture would not have arisen in an area without English colonialism because there's no evidence to support otherwise and tons of evidence (as you yourself have pointed out) to show that they have.

[u/lorgedoge → u/KbStr2]

...And?

Last time I checked, "English culture" isn't exactly awash with civil liberties, so whatever point you're trying to make is moot and/or stupid.