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Old 04-11-2021, 04:30 PM   #5925 (permalink)
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America sure is more of a minefield when it comes to racism than Europe, but if I don't catch on to these things it's definitely also my naive whiteness
I guarantee if one of the main crimes of your colonialism was living right next to you'd feel it much harder. I don't know about Dutch imperialism but imagine if the people of the Congo were all living in Belgium. Belgium might feel a bit awkward about its race relations.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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