Reply to: British Empire - good or bad?

[Green Mango]

British empire was a mixed bag.

Pro :
It established peace accross 20% of the Earth.
It stamped out distressing practices like Thugee (ritual murder of travellers) and reduced Suti (ritual suicide of widows).

Against :
It repressed native peoples and removed their liberty.
It simply cost too much to go on.
It wasn't PC.

[Doggy Styles]

.. just ask the Chinese what they thought.

And the Koreans.

[chris79]

British Empire - good or bad?

I've already exposed the fallacy in leftie-liberal thinking on this one. They deny that such a thing as indigenous peoples and cultures exist in order to justify the mass immigration policies they like. Yet they would also oppose the British empire or indeed any colonisation as it would involve imposing the colonisers way of life on the colonised.

the only way to explain this leftie-liberal flaw is that they want to create a global communist system and so things like patriotism, religion, culture pertaining to individual nations need to be dismantled

It can be good or bad depending on which era you live(d) in, who you were, where you lived, and a whole other stack of variables. Right now the British Empire in general would probably be bad unless it was a complete world domination.

[HRHisaravingfelchlord]

I didn't mind the gory hand. I'm glad your original idea of bringing me out as a raving felchlord toyboy didn't pan out

Oh I don't know, I thought it went down (no pun intended) quite well

[sasguru]

By the by, this is not nearly as effective as my thread about Star Wars being about the British Empire that got so heated that within half an hour that it got deleted...

I was rather proud of that...

It brought out a lot of lurkers...

Start another one ....

[Diver]

stop this now

Okay sweety

[EternalOptimist]

stop this now

[Old Greg]

I didn't mind the gory hand. I'm glad your original idea of bringing me out as a raving felchlord toyboy didn't pan out

Oh I don't know.

[Diver]

Sorry. I was particularly proud of you. I thought the gory hand was a nice touch. Found the password in an old book. Think I'll be you for a while. I got tired of being AtW and now I'm tired of being me.

I didn't mind the gory hand. I'm glad your original idea of bringing me out as a raving felchlord toyboy didn't pan out

[sasguru]

I'm glad you think so!

It's about time you brought me out and aired me!

Forgot my Login Password again didn't you?

Sorry. I was particularly proud of you. I thought the gory hand was a nice touch. Found the password in an old book. Think I'll be you for a while. I got tired of being AtW and now I'm tired of being me.

[Diver]

Sigh. To which of you does this tedious sock-puppet belong?
It's not working you know.
sasguru's 1st rule of creating a sock-puppet:

1. A SOCK-PUPPET HAS TO HAVE A CREDIBLE LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE.


HTH

I'm glad you think so!

It's about time you brought me out and aired me!

Forgot my Login Password again didn't you?

[Board Game Geek]

Contractor79 is right about one point however.

There can be no doubt that there is programme of deliberate sociological change, driven by the State, and its desire to micro-manage every aspect of our lives.

Whether this is for the good of the people, or the good of the State, is debatable.

See my signature more more details.

[Old Greg]

they keep on saying "we're all immigrants", technically correct but actually rather useless. A bit like saying "we're all human" when deciding if we need to separate mass murderers from the family of the murder victims.

How does that evidence:

'They deny that such a thing as indigenous peoples and cultures exist in order to justify the mass immigration policies they like.'

[Svalbaard]

Not very good. Was trading up around £5 per share this time last year and is now down around £3.50.

[Doggy Styles]

they keep on saying "we're all immigrants", technically correct but actually rather useless. A bit like saying "we're all human" when deciding if we need to separate mass murderers from the family of the murder victims.

Well I wouldn't have quite put it like that. I'd have said:

"I should allow people to move into my house because I too once moved into it."

Then you could work the metaphor, such as "Why should someone else benefit from the food in the fridge, leave no room on my settee, etc etc?"

That's difficult to do with mass murderers.