Comment on The UK just took a harder stance on Banksy than genocide

OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Maultasche@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s the country that invented concentration camps after all

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You must be a real Boer at parties.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not the USA? Or are they just once again trying to take credit for other people’s work?

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    • hanrahan@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      https://samilhistory.com/2018/12/07/debunking-the-myth-that-the-british-invented-the-concentration-camp/

      The actual term ‘concentration camp’ was invented by the Spanish (as campo de concentración or campo de reconcentración) in 1896 – three years before the 2nd Anglo-Boer War (1899 – 1904) started. It originated during The Cuban War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia cubana, 1895–98) was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain.

      A rebellion had broken out in Cuba, then a Spanish colony in 1895. The rebels, outnumbered by Spanish government troops, turned to guerrilla warfare (and here another myth which says the Boer’s invented ‘guerrilla warfare’ is debunked).

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  • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also the country that “handed control” to Israel

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• Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a lot more complicated than that. Their stance us "Pro-genocide, as long as it’s profitable and far enough away that I don’t have to see it.

  Actually, I guess it’s not that complicated after all.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s even more interesting: the people currently in charge in the party in Government got the leadership following a campaign of slandering as anti-semited the previous leader of that Party until he left, which was done mainly with the help of Israeli-linked Jewish groups in Britain.

    Given that Britain has FPTP like the US it was pretty much guaranteed that getting the leadership of that party would put them in Government sooner or later.

    They de facto were bought by Israel in this way.

    The only good thing that can be said about these people is that they stay bought.

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