[Tweet] Colonization in Reverse
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So you are a "conspiracy theorist" if you think foreigners are colonizing UK, but it also is happening and is being celebrated?
are you against it? it's not happening and you're a dangerous conspiracy theorist
are you for it? it's good that it's happening and it needs to happen
I would also have to point out that colonization did sometimes bring advantages to the colonized regions, I fail to see what advantage is for the British.
I was going to type a post here about the difficulty I have with calling the colonization by European powers "good" while also calling this "bad" as I hadn't worked out my thoughts on colonization.
But then I realized the term "colonization" as used here (perhaps intentionally) obfuscates the real issue. What the UK and other European countries are experiencing isn't mere "colonization", but outright invasion.
Colonization was an unmitigated good for Africa.
Africans were iron-age barbarians with no written language, no mechanical tech, no agriculture, and no architecture. Now they are heading back in that direction.
Lubumbashi has a single power plant built by the Belgians 70 years ago. The locals have to find foreign contractors to keep it working. It doesn't provide enough power so every week a different section of the city is blacked out.
It is a literal Mad Max world; ignorant savages living in the ruins of a civilization they didn't build and will never comprehend.
Of course they're heading back in that direction. Reversion to the mean.
Except now they have an absolutely enormous population surplus caused by western medicine and food imports.
Once that gravy train stops, hundreds of millions of them are going to die.
Macroscale example of why it's better to teach someone to fish rather than simply give him the fish.
What if he isn't smart enough to use a rod?
The hypothetical man in question can be a dirt farmer then I guess. 🤷♂️
Good.
I remember an old Nigerian saying the same thing. That British brought good things that can’t be ignored
All that delicious food(!)
Don't forget the top-tier doctors, lawyers, and scientists.
Cheap labor for big corporations?
pidgin is baby talk. it's exactly how my 2 year old speaks.
also the 'soyboy gape' is the face she makes when she gets a cookie.
If it truly was just a dialect, then the people speaking it would be able to write English properly.
It's an invasion not colonisation, at least when the Europeans did it the brought their tech and developed areas under their influence building railways, infrastructure and even canals.
This is just a locust swarm by comparison.
I know Jamaica was once a British territory but didn’t they want independence? I’d love to have one of these fools explain the justification for this. I know what they would say but I just want to hear them twisting themselves into knots.
A British territory that mysteriously isn't populated by the British people.
I just meant since they had territory all over the world and Jamaica was part of the empire at one point
British Empire was dismantled as a consequence of American aid in WW2.
Thanks. I really need to learn more about British history.
Thank you