Three million died in the 1943 Bengal famine - one man is collecting the remaining survivors’ tales.

  • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Cool you should stir all that 80 year old shit up again, that’ll really help everyone

    In fact, why don’t we jail those responsible?!?

        • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          I don’t remember committing any atrocities, was I drunk at the time? There was that one evening in Newcastle mind you…

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        8 months ago

        I’m saying I’m not responsible. Neither is anyone who is still alive. I didn’t make those decisions, neither did anyone related to me

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          8 months ago

          You’re right. British People should forget the past. The Battle of Trafalgar, The Battle of Quebec, and Waterloo are none of your business if you weren’t alive at the time. All of those monuments should be burred with the last surviving witness.

          There are only a handful of Brits left who can even claim to have defeated the Nazis.

        • roastedDeflator@kbin.socialOP
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          8 months ago

          Thanks for the clarifications. Of course noone can be responsible for stuff that happened before their lifetime.

          Our responsibility lays on to how we address this colonial past. The way I see things, we need to face it and address it, not put it under the rug. It’s the least we can do and its important to do so for the millions of people around the world who were not alive then, but still have to live/survive the outcomes of colonial past policies. Racism would be one of them, the list is long.

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            8 months ago

            Yep, and a lot of racism is caused by people dragging up the past, and telling people that, for example “The Brits are to blame, you should hate them for what their ancestors did!”

            It’s fucking stupid and does nothing but fuel hate