How PragerU Lies to You - The British Empire

The British Empire ... was bad!
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• If You Live in Freedom...
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[@andrewmandrona7891]

Yes, the British were liberators. They liberated people from their land, possessions, and lives.

[@mycodenameism4331]

They liberated their necks’ connection to their spinal cords.

[@thatssofetch3481]

MycodenameisM You’re thinking of the French.

[@mycodenameism4331]

Nah, the French just freed their heads from their shoulders entirely.

[@amityexe8326]

Dont forget the also liberated them from the culture and traditions

[@MisterCharlton]

And they abolished slavery worldwide

[@IisFoo]

Does anyone else get the feeling that all these "Politically Incorrect" folks are confusing "Politically" and "Factually?" Maybe someone needs to benevolently conquer them and introduce the word into their language.

[@sperzieb00n]

talking heads like those folks do that on purpose; dilute the meaning of specific words, then use it to gas-light the conversation, please the core fan-base (white supremacists in this case) by wearing it all like a badge of honor.

[@johnmartinez7440]

Yup. When I was younger it was called "Not being a deliberate asshole", now it's been rebranded as "politically correct".

[@reptoidrenaissance]

I think they're allergic to the word "fact," though. At least, if their videos, articles, and rants are any indication.

[@TheProJuicers1]

Nice display pic lad, that's my favourite modest mouse album

[@antonioklaic4839]

A lot of those people seem desperate to be "politically incorrect" and edgy

[@Lost-Lilim]

The British Empire loved liberty so much that it kept all the liberty for itself and gave none away.

[@iannordin5250]

Not even to it's own people

[@xjdfghashzkj]

The British Empire loved exotic spices so much that although they colonized the world to seize them, they humbly carried on eating soggy cabbages and boiled tubers.

[@nazeerkhot3651]

@@xjdfghashzkj that's actually kinda sad considering the amount of money and time Invested in getting the spices at the time.

[@alcabone1126]

I mean the army in the uk shot protestors that wanted more suffrage in the peterloo massacre.

[@mksmike]

*took all liberty

[@lightningfirst689]

H.W. Crocker III is like the name you would give to a cartoon character who you want to make clear is not likeable.

[@Pickleman9000]

hes the FAIRY GOD PARENTS! guy

[@MCDreng]

H.W. Crocker III sounds like exactly the sort of person who would be defending the British Empire. I'm a bit disappointed he's American actually, I was hoping he'd have a suitably plummy English accent to match the name and the beliefs.

[@goingunder2548]

I've never seen anyone look so much like their name though

[@feliciastaldotter5168]

Hello my name is Danis Prager I am a republican As an american republican I love the british empire lmao

[@GuerillaBunny]

Also Denis Prager: "At age 17 I realized that people are making money even out of good causes, so they're all hypocrites. Therefore capitalism is good. I'm now 60 and I never stopped to think if I was all that clever at age 17."

[@omninulla9472]

Haven't you heard? Republicans love the white ethnostate more than America now.

[@pauly260]

Republicans love freedom & liberty! Now we’ll prop up an empire that subjugated millions! If you disagree, you’re a communist!

[@Enkarashaddam]

Oh my god that made me lol

[@Mastikator]

It's all a dog whistle for praising white supremacy.

[@CteCrassus]

"To govern them with the lightest possible hand" Well, it's true that you don't need an inordinately strong hand to pull a trigger.

[@Nikki-lodeon]

😆😂🤣 that's terrible. I'm dying!

[@tompatterson1548]

to be fair, the british empire used old guard aristocrats to run the local governance, really just to save money, and effort.

[@lindai6988]

’Britain’s not racist’ kzbin.info/www/bejne/gafLlYCPqp53rck

[@ozymandias6644]

@@tompatterson1548 Spot on... That's how they ran Indian Subcontinent, and one of the reasons why Hindu nationalist (indias version of white supremacist) adore colonial period so much, since that period for them was "Liberation" from 1000 yrs of Muslim rule, overlooking all the tragedy their so called "Liberator" gave them as part and parcel.

[@qbertq1]

Also ask Scotland.

[@milamber319]

Im sure they used the "lightest possible hand" to try and smother all traces of Australian Aboriginal culture.

[@SmashhoofTheOriginal]

Lightest possible hand on their guns

[@milamber319]

@@placeholdernameisplacehold7671 The australian government (such as it was at the time. It was actually state governments. ) saw themselves as british. Even in the laws after federation they referred to themselves as british subjects. And whether it was before or after 1901 the british had an attitude of cultural darwinism. "If your culture is consumed and destroyed by ours then that's the natural order of the world because our culture was the fitter" that kinda thing. So even from the very start they just did whatever the hell they wanted and if they meant the locals were killed/driven off their land/lost their culture and language...oh well the brits were the stronger. True the brits tended to pay lip service to the idea of not massicuring local and leaving them be. But in practice they saw them as dieing races and were more interested in making their departure as painless as possible.

[@alexcarney4811]

They were in the stone age and practiced barbaric acts

[@richhartnell6233]

Alex Carney. So because someone is less sophisticated on a technological level you warent it justified to eradicate them by force? I’m I missing the logic here?

[@milamber319]

@@alexcarney4811 What you mean like marrying 13 year olds, being ok with family violence and waring the your neighbors over territory. ...yeah i think 1800s britain might have slipped off the moral high ground on that front. We look back on Aboriginal and Wester civilisation with the most rose tinted glasses. Life as an aboriginal sucked...it was hard and full of danger and lacked equality....but we forget that our "modern civilised western culture" is a more recent thing than colonisation. Yeah the europeans had it all over the aboriginals technologically but they were still culturally fucked up compared to modern standards and in all the same ways we admonish first peoples culture for. at the time of invasion everyone was a backwards barbarian...one was just a backwards barbarian with a gun.

[@evamiller4886]

The British left the Irish with language sure is an interesting way of saying they made a concentrated legal and cultural effort for literally several centuries to destroy the Irish language and replace it with English.

[@reddyshreddy5050]

That’s not even the only Celtic nation that was tried on, let alone in the empire. Gotta love that freedom

[@TheAaronChand]

And dont forget the Irish Potato Famine in the 19th century the Great Fame Oliver Crowell the banning of the Irish Language the Ulster plantation.

[@fearmor3855]

So much freedom they attempted to eradicate a culture

[@TheAmoeboid]

Mismanagement is an interesting way of describing Britain's actions during the famine

[@FPSIreland2]

Mhaireamar, mairfimid.

[@khamulthewack4732]

"You American's should thank the British Empire..." is generally not a great way to start a sentence if you want to get an American on board with something.

[@Slenderman12342]

Pretty much anyone in the world tbh

[@nolesquad5162]

Yup. We the Americans are basically against anything Britishh (well, especially me!)

[@amityexe8326]

I want someone to come down the Dublin or Cork and say "you all should thank the British Empire"

[@Slenderman12342]

@@amityexe8326 I'd love to see it

[@akerravala]

Here in Boston we thank the British for our harbor being tea flavored

[@zbh9268]

"the lightest hand" around their throats.

[@manospondylus]

ZBH The lightest hands holding the strongest gatling guns

[@CountScarlioni]

Even the Colonial Office regarded itself as an iron fist in a velvet glove. They were less shy about revealing that fact than PragerU! It's amazing how effective the strategy was actually. In the 1890s the British held the whole Empire down with just 90,000 regular troops. That's less than the modern British military. They used local puppets wherever possible to give the illusion of self-government, and the Empire would go out of its way to shower complements on their puppets and appeal to their vanity. In every single case though there was always some supercilious DWEM in the shadows whispering orders.

[@AYouTubeCommentator]

They governed with the lightest hand, and the heaviest fire weapon. Change my mind

[@sherlocksmuuug6692]

*"WHAT? I CANT HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF THESE MAXIM GUNS MOWING DOWN HUNDREDS OF ZULUS!"*

[@jordanetherington1922]

"They didn't try to turn ppl into Englishmen" *cough* Residential schools in Canada

[@xxcrysad3000xx]

Gee, wonder why? Probably because to them only Englishmen possessed his much touted God-given right to liberty.

[@troubledteenhelp2354]

Never let residential schools die

[@johnobrian566]

I was gonna mention the outright murder, including by starvation and intentional smallpox infection, of probably hundreds of millions of indigenous people, too which uhh, is also not exactly a light hand.

[@hpsauce1078]

@@johnobrian566 I don't want to be a dick but there wasn't even a population of greater than 9million indigenous peoples in the Americas by the time colonies were being established and far fewer, perhaps less than a million ever fell under British rule, so whilst atrocities did occur i would imagine that the scale is in the tens of thousands not the hundreds of millions.

[@damianbylightning6823]

@@hpsauce1078 Also, when contact with the outside world would occur, the exact same thing would have happened - perhaps by French or Russian or Portu... These people want European empires to be an absolute evil - something which may be seen as irredeemably evil. All 'evidence' and all events may be the fault of a single, top-down authority and drive/policy. No benefits may exist because the thing was allegedly evil in conception. Hitler had this childish idea too! This is a delusion so ignorant and so far-fetched that it is amazing that many educated people have come to believe it. Marxist and Nazi totalitarianism thrives on this pseudo-religious nutjob view. Even Marx and Engels recognised the nature of empires. When you are more utopian, paranoid and crackpot than Marx, you really are in trouble. This whole view is an infection of minds and speaks volumes about our evolutionary history and why we, as a species, believe in magic and crackpot religions.

[@JesseColton]

Rejecting the British empire is LITERALLY the core tenant of America, how could they get it THIS wrong 😂

[@Vanbedda]

The idea that some mom out there is making her 10 year old child watch Prager for "school" makes me want to puke.

[@jeonginnielvr]

Charter schools too.

[@shiinakochiya6068]

@pyro beast Talk to the administration about it! Let them know that PragerU has been proven to be a horribly misinformative and biased "source" and you're concerned about it being shown in school, and offer to show them that proof - if they're interested, then there are a wealth of KZbin videos (like this one!) which can be used to demonstrate as much to them. If you could get even one relevant staff member (a principal or vice principal, or a passionate teacher whose teaching subject is the same as the subject matter of the PragerU hallway videos) to understand just how much of a problem it is to be showing PragerU's content in an educational setting, I suspect that person will take it from there and get them removed. (If you intend to do this I suggest you first watch on your own whichever anti-Prager videos you'll introduce to them later, in order to check them - just in case the videos are flawed somehow.) [Edit: Added the @user tag to clarify who I'm talking to, which I forgot originally.]

[@tasinal-hassan8268]

@@konitrix3166 The Right is like the Left. It's just missing its label.

[@Inivican]

There is a "alternative" Wikipedia for "conservatives" called "Conservapedia" which is intended to be used as a textbook within a home-school setting. The wingnut who started it claimed that Wikipedia was too "liberal" for his taste and thus created "Conservapedia". It is ludicrously bad.

[@yukonhyena2957]

@@Inivican i just looked it up and read through a few pages, and hoooo you were NOT lying it is trash through n through edit- there's no way this is real. i refuse to believe it. this has to be a bunch of people working on a satire website

[@gepmrk]

Gandhi was once asked: “What do you think of Western civilization?” “I think it would be a good idea,” he replied. I guess Crocker missed that one.

[@soupycask]

Savage burn.

[@alexbennet4195]

Jay D: tRigGEReD

[@TwoGoblinsInATrenchCoat]

​@Jay D IMHO, Ghandi seems to be talking about moral and ethical ideas related to western civilization, not technology.

[@primereview9727]

Arne Hanna having said that Gandhi was also a massive advocate for apartheid in South Africa and viewed black Africans as lesser humans and was somewhat of a pedophile so you know.....

[@Big.hossss]

@@TwoGoblinsInATrenchCoat It seems at face value like a joke, albeit a joke that wouldn't be funny if said about Eastern or Indian civilization today

[@Kam_i_]

i paused the video on the “fanfic” of the south winning the civil war and the first thing I saw was “the south would have abolished slavery peaceably” which made me laugh really hard i cant believe that man got that book published

[@haroeneissa790]

Not only that but the second point about ww1 is just a random guess based on absolutely nothing and the third point is basically just caribbean colonialism. Which is of course a good thing with all the freedom and justice that the confederacy would have given to Cuba in this scenario.

[@SorowFame]

“Wow, that was a lot of effort to uphold slavery, now we can abolish it. Our motivations make perfect sense.”

[@kaynines5996]

Is he wrong though? It’s either that or collapse.

[@MsZsc]

so he simultaneously says the golden circle idea would've been good and says the confederacy aren't aggressors?

[@breakingboundaries3950]

@@kaynines5996 look up “knowing better” and they’re video on The Lost Cause.

[@sammosaurusrex]

I spat out my tea when I saw the cover of his book was Nathan Bedford Forrest (KKK founder) posing with pistols I actually googled it to be sure this wasn’t some kind of subtle joke - these people are absurd

[@orsondorange5413]

It wasn’t subtle at all... it was pathetic

[@Winaska]

You did know that Forrest eventually repudiated the Klan, right?

[@aryaxz2255]

@@Winaska he still is a mass murderer and was the leader till grant became president and was the person responsible for fort pillow massacre . not being a terrorist when terrorism is out of fashion isn't exactly saint like

[@ElPayasoMalo]

@@aryaxz2255 No, Forrest not only went 180° on the Klan and personally disbanded it, but he specifically would attack lynch mobs and spoke out against violence against blacks and denigrated and threatened racists with physical harm, kissed a black woman on her cheek in public and declared her his equal, and he spent the rest of his life being shamed by his fellow southerners for his devotion to equal rights and fair treatment for black people and had his sanity and worth as a human being publically questioned in media of the time. I don't know WHY he flipped like that, but he did. He went from being number one racist to John "Shoot Slave Owners In The Face" Brown, as he publically stood up for, spoke out against, and physically confronted the vile shit he used to champion and he gained NOTHING for it. He died abandoned by his neighbors for his anti-racist stance, and today he is only known only as the guy who led the Klan. John Newton was a horrific slave owner who had a change of heart and started acting against slavery, and today he's known as the guy who wrote the autobiographical song Amazing Grace, but Nate will always been known for his worst actions even though he spent the last fifth of his life not only on the right side of history, but an active participant in social justice at significant personal risk. Does that mean he should be just blanket forgiven for the bad shit he did? No. But credit for his change of heart against his own interest should be acknowledged.

[@kamijk]

ElPayasoMalo nah, no credit. Burn in hell NBF.

[@porkboybob3166]

"The Celts never had a word for republic" Welsh: Gweriniaeth, f, noun, republic

[@TheTfrules]

bbonner422 gwerin is the word for the ‘common people’ and gwiriniaeth refers to rule from the common people. It might not share the same origin as the word ‘republic’ but that doesn’t mean us welsh people couldn’t understand the possibility of rule from anyone but a king.

[@ZeeJeff]

And also, even if there was no Irish word for "republic", that doesn't mean anything. Languages evolve and adapt to the needs of a given community but the lack of a word to describe some concept in one language doesn't make that community incapable of understanding that concept.

[@blondbraid7986]

Just wanted to point out that the Norse and vikings had developed concepts like the Ting (court), solving disputes in court, individual rights and all-man's-right (the right to freely travel across other people's lands) independently of the greco-roman cultures that created the word "republic".

[@tibbygaycat]

Easy. Make up a new word. It worked for Chinese. Take a word for the people or public, then add a word for state/government/rule.

[@Gabdube]

Also, remember that a lot of continental celts in the Gauls sent their kids to greco-latin academies, where Plato's "Republic" (original title: _Politeia,_ Πολιτεία) was taught. Celts most definitely knew of the greek word for "Republic", regardless of whether they had a word for it in their own languages. Edit: oh, we're talking about modern Irish, not _most_ Celts in history. "The Celts" is a lot more than Ireland and Britain, people; these are just what remains of a cultural group that numbered hundreds of diverse tribes across western Europe and Anatolia.

[@andrewmurray6646]

I just robbed an old lady. Then I gave her money back, and she didn't thank me. So ungrateful of her...

[@Gooong]

More like, I kidnapped an old lady. Then spent all my money so I can't keep hiring prison guards to keep the old lady in the house so I let her out. She didn't even thank me. Ingrate.

[@sherlocksmuuug6692]

Followed by the epilogue: "Then I remembered that she still had some money in her safe, so I got my mate to do me a favour by beating her up again and robbing her while she was on the path of recovery. Now shes homeless, stupid granny cant even pull herself up by the bootstraps, must be inferior to me"

[@alexcarney4811]

More like I stole from the old lady and gave back fenominal interest at a later date

[@littlemoth4956]

@@alexcarney4811 Define fenominal.

[@chantaltestman6916]

@@Gooong You exercise great liberty, thank your British up bringing

[@JustAGuyWhoLikesStuff.]

PragerU soon: The Bengal famine saved India from overpopulation.

[@colindelabie9734]

PragerU: Murder is a great way of dealing with overpopulation.

[@abhyudaysinghparmar6055]

famines*

[@howto6433]

He doesn't cares about humans he only cares about him

[@ElGrandoCaymano]

Prager U: The British empire (with Indian troops) saved the Indian civilians from working in Japanese slave labor camps

[@Valencetheshireman927]

@ElGrando - That’s true though .

[@SSofIreland]

"If You Live in Freedom, Thank the British Empire" (laughs hysterically in Irish)

[@mirqtheliar925]

*Laughs in American* *Laughs in French*

[@coolhistory2710]

Laufes in idian

[@cass7448]

Laughs in Australian. It's not like we were an offshore prison or anything...

[@gabbyprincip1575]

*Laughts in Egyptian,South African, Argentinian and Chinese*

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

The Anglo-Americans also wiped out the German language among German Americans.

[@The_Wonders_of_Engineering]

The British empire is a "great liberty loving empire." They loved liberty so much all America had to do was politely ask for independence.

[@starmaker75]

Don’t forget the Irish they loved the empire so munch they only eat potatoes and have the rest given to britian.

[@lorcannagle]

@@starmaker75 Sure what would we do with food and the vote?

[@MidoriMushrooms]

to this day, our harbor waters still taste faintly of tea >:)

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

Be fair that actually is how Canada got independence.

[@md-lc8gq]

@@starmaker75 In fact they even em so much they didnt eat any potatoes at all during the famines so the empire could keep on making money

[@RiaxaraCo]

The British were liberators!! They liberated the Irish from food!!

[@justwhenyouthought6119]

Before my time but what was in my time was the £7bn we as taxpayers gave them to prop up their failed economy in 2008. They paid that back yet ?

[@corncake4677]

@@justwhenyouthought6119 silence british person

[@justwhenyouthought6119]

@@corncake4677 xenophobe!

[@user-ys5yv2nz6w]

@@justwhenyouthought6119 Silence British person

[@justwhenyouthought6119]

@@user-ys5yv2nz6w Horrible xenophobe

[@theclumsybrit2817]

Americans praising the British Empire..... that's honestly quite funny.

[@Lycaon1765]

They ain't real Americans.

[@randylongstreet8398]

To Americans with even the basest understanding of history its funny like falling into an open sewer and dying.

[@michaeldiekmann6494]

They praise it because it was lead by white people. White Man's burden and all that. And they know to whom they are pandering to with that. But doesn't matter. Its part of the scam to advertise some neoliberal status quo with nice geopolitical wars and proxy wars where brown people live with nice ressources in the ground.

[@RemixedVoice]

@@michaeldiekmann6494 My racist grandpa became enlightened when he realized that his kidney transplant belonged to a black person. The pigmentation of someone's skin and their ancestor groups doesn't determine shite. As the world's population inevitably becomes more diverse when you can be on the other side of the world in 24 hours.

[@IamMrRand00m953]

#makeamericabritainagain

[@matthewmcnulty1104]

Yes, my Irish Catholic ancestors just thought that "liberty loving empire" was so wonderful for stripping them of their rights to practice Catholicism under the Penal Laws. The same empire that also tried to destroy every single aspect of their culture, from the Irish language to Irish sports.

[@johnmoloney1996]

Don’t forget those liberating Famine roads that the British made the Irish build so that they would starve to death quicker and not be able to rebel. (Yes that is an actual thing the British did during the famine)

[@theirishempire4952]

@First Name Famine Roads, from nowhere, going nowhere

[@dylstarling8649]

@Matthew McNulty The worst part is the British forced us to be Catholic in the first place, I've tried to research as much of the old pagan beliefs as possible but most of it is lost to time or bastardized unfortunately.

[@Dlúith]

And when you go up north you get to see the result of all that cultural destruction. The amount of Union Jacks in some of those towns is objectively too many to not be desperate, especially considering the way the British would even treat northerners.

[@katrinam6795]

Not to forget they attenpted both cultural genocide and actual genocide by massakers and starvation

[@Mcwollybob]

"Liberty-loving empire" is one of the biggest oxymorons I have ever seen

[@CarrotConsumer]

Enlightened despotism that protects the liberty of individuals was a pretty common goal of a lot of enlightened thinkers. It's not hard to stretch that to empire.

[@tompatterson1548]

Persia did that though, for reals.

[@lindai6988]

’Britain’s not racist’ kzbin.info/www/bejne/gafLlYCPqp53rck

[@mishlimon98]

British empire: time to conquer all of India, And even more than just India

[@SVishnu-xy6bu]

@muhammad the greeks were technically democratic

[@ricochetsixtyten]

alt-right: globalization is bad! also alt-right: the British Empire was the greatest thing ever

[@squanchysquanch1840]

The left: “it’s all those damn conservatives’ fault” The right: “it’s the stupid liberals’ fault” The middle: “oh just shut up and get along already”

[@davidlovesyeshua]

@@squanchysquanch1840 Yes, the childish squabbling of the radical, justice and freedom demanding people with the historical whitewashing, xenophobia and nationalism loving people is just so petty. Why can't those two equally extreme and biased groups stop their pointless struggles to control the laws, ideas and resources of their countries? 🙄

[@squanchysquanch1840]

@@davidlovesyeshua this is you buddy: “hi I’m David I only get my information from an echo chamber because I’m too weak minded to actually think for muselffff. Haha half the country is racist and bigoted and nationalism is bad haha. let me show you how biased I am by generalizing a large and rather diverse population. I use big words to convey intelligence that I don’t really have haha”. Here I am talking about how the left and right won’t stop bickering, and you come here bickering proving exactly my point. I’m not even right-wing you twat go be outraged elsewhere.

[@SebastianPerez-wv2xf]

@@squanchysquanch1840 no i think its just a burning hate that both sides have for 'centrists' or people who want both sides to just 'get along'

[@johnnyvincent8995]

Prageru isn't alt right

[@robertturni2845]

This dude acts like the British invented democracy

[@thekathal]

@Nick Arjomand yeah but it’s not like democracy didn’t exist before that

[@wizstorm172]

No but they helped spread the idea of it around the world

[@nottsoserious]

They act like Britain doesn't still have a monarch

[@thekathal]

@@nottsoserious you know the monarchy has literally no political power right?

[@hippocampussashimi7819]

The illegality of calling for the removal of the monarch as well as their role in approving the prime minister (which they've never declined to do, I believe) means that the royals do indeed have a significant amount of power

[@paul89007]

PragerU is like my ex, she made a lot of sense before I really got to know that she is being funded by oil money.

[@iainhansen1047]

Why is? Sounds like a strange ex

[@ThePainkiller9995]

Dude BoomerU makes absolutely no sense at all if you have even the slightest knowledge of reality

[@paul89007]

@@ThePainkiller9995 B...But...the cartoons and simple graphs are so alluring.

[@Sonnera]

PragerU never made sense

[@Kletterhase]

Don't take PragerU courses when you're drunk and desperate! Just don't do it!

[@erinyoulater]

Not only is Crocker politically incorrect, he is historically incorrect

[@dhruvs8139]

Because he ain't a historian.

[@DirtyPoul]

@@dhruvs8139 Exactly. Unfortunately, historian is not a protected title like doctor, so he can call himself that despite his lack of a history degree.

[@ericb.4313]

He's neither politically nor historically incorrect. He's just plain incorrect.

[@lacedemonians]

To be politically incorrect is to be correct.

[@DirtyPoul]

@@lacedemonians I don't think I've ever heard anything as edgy as that. How old are you, 14?

[@God_is_an_Atheist666]

As a Zulu Man I thank you for telling our story as well considering we are usually left out of such conversations and the battle you're talking about was battle of Isandlwana. Thank you.

[@Zarmdthecoolest]

Look. I know it must be annoying to get a comment that has nothing to do with yours, but your username is legendary

[@VolcyThoughts]

“If you live in freedom, thank the British Empire” *stares in slavery*

[@willmcreavy9623]

I think the British empire single handedly played the biggest role in ending slavery in human history

[@VolcyThoughts]

Will McReavy yes and one of its biggest proponents

[@willmcreavy9623]

Slavery was endemic in Africa prior to Europeans who admittedly made it much worse. In the entire world history of slavery Britain was only a minor player along with manchu despots, Romans, Greeks, African Kings, Barbary pirates, vikings, ect. The British empire was, however, definitively the key player in abolitionism, and forcing it on other countries through global hegemony

[@VolcyThoughts]

Will McReavy in the history of the world, Hitler was a minor player in brutal war compared to Genghis Khan, Alexander, Xerxes, etc but he was still Hitler and it doesn’t diminish his impact. The British Empire was a major player in the slave trade. They were instrumental in ending it but it doesn’t diminish their impact just because the Ashanti Empire and Vikings had it

[@willmcreavy9623]

I think it does diminish the impact if we're talking about the net good/evil of the British empire. Of course the British empire was evil by today's standards but I think its more relevant to compare it to the systems they were replacing, an intolerant ruling capitalist class oppressing the poor is probably better than say an intolerant ruling feudal class oppressing the poor and burning widows to death for instance. Also if after a few wars ghenghis khan or Hitler banned violence and intolerance and became the world's leading force in pacifism then maybe that analogy would be fair, but they didn't so it isnt. Before Britain there were regimes with slavery after Britain there were regimes without slavery.

[@acciox3103]

"Liberty Loving Empire" Has Crocker ever heard of the Opium Wars?

[@pogonator1]

You have to understand, if a gracious white man sells Opium to Chinese, this is the freedom of enterprise. If a greedy South American o Asian gangster selling dangerous drugs to the white mans kids, is a very evil thing ;)

[@你还兔子]

Britian: *abused India to get china addicted to opium so they can get tea* PragerU: our LIBERTY LOVING EMPIRE 👏👏

[@mrnonsense1031]

"Liberty loving empire" I dare him to say that in a pub full of Irishmen

[@你还兔子]

@@mrnonsense1031 oh! I hope takes that dare! Cant wait to see what would happen :)

[@m0nkEz]

Of course, they do their research in order to include just enough facts that it isn't obvious they're lying to you.

[@kvothe5734]

As a British person it’s embarrassing that some people don’t accept that the British empire was extremely bad

[@RR-pc7yv]

Why do so many Brits see their colonial empire as a great moral and humanist entity? Why this obsession with their colonial empire?

[@thomasallister3446]

@@RR-pc7yv A lot of it is just pure ignorance, they don't know about the atrocities it committed. In British schools there's absolutely no education of it.

[@theryanbard]

I can only imagine what his "The Politically Incorrect Guide to WW2" would be.

[@norwegianboyee]

@TheLaxLex Regarding the atomic bomb there is actually a lot of serious academics that are undecided on the issue, as it does seem like the atomic bomb, for all the suffering it wrought, did cause less loss of life overall. Both on Japanese and American side. An land invasion of Japan would absolutely destroy the country and it's history might look very different today. I'm saying this as an Norwegian that has studied in Japan for a year and loves Japanese culture. I still think the atomic bomb was justified. As for the jews, nah not going to apologize for the holocaust, that was terrible and holocaust denial is disgusting.

[@diabreadstick]

@Norwegianboy EE I should’ve clarified by “apologia” I meant Crocker would’ve used a bunch of racist bullshit to assert Japanese citizens deserved to die. And while we’re on the subject I have zero doubt he’d justify America’s internment camps, too. (I understand the use of the atomic bombs is a contentious topic and I don’t really have enough knowledge on the subject to take a stand on the necessity).

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

It would be this way: Hetler( I consider him so low, that i won't bother to write his name correctly here was a sympathetic Human, who was vegetarian, (nevermind the fact that he wasn't a strict Veggie, but one that occasionally ate Sausage and ham, as documented in his meeting in his stay in obersalzberg. there are more examples though like Dione Lucas confirming that his favorite dish was stuffed squab), hated smoking( that one is true, doesn't make him a good guy), saved Germany( Only then to nearly destroyed in WW2 on top of creating a very fragile empire, that wouldn't have survived) and only fought to defend his nation( when it was he, who started the war in the west). Yeah....He is a Monster.

[@samkuperman9035]

Norwegianboy EE, personally I believe that America dropping the bomb was more a way to flex on Russia (thus setting the tone for the Cold War) than it was to stop the war. Japan was already about to surrender, and even if they hadn’t, dropping the bomb in the ocean probably would’ve been enough of a warning. Edit: This is from what I’ve read and seen, which is admittedly limited.

[@SandreXen]

@@samkuperman9035 No, Japan was not close to surrender. the men in power wanted to, but couldn't accept allied terms of the surrender: 1) they had no problem with sacrificing a big part of their population in an attempt to obtain better terms (mainly not loosing power or worse, being accountable for the horror perpetred by japan army). 2) if they accepted, they could be killed by fanatic underling who would have see that as a lack of honor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan#Divisions_within_the_Japanese_leadership Their even has been an attempted coup d'etat after the surrender announcement to try preventing it.

[@sephivedewlap746]

Looking forward to when this guy's next books: - the Politically Incorrect Guide to Skull Shapes - the Politically Incorrect Guide to Counting to Six-Million - the Politically Incorrect Guide to the History of South Africa

[@Midnight-Starfish]

@@CaitieLou Honestly you should just read The Politically Incorrect Guide to Counting to Six Million. It's basically the same book. Though the book The Politically Incorrect Guide to African Employment in the 1800s is really surreal.

[@cannibalfan01]

With a forward by expert Phrenologist the Lady Foppington.

[@goudattamaan2495]

​@@Midnight-Starfish I wonder what the politically incorrect guide to African employment in the 1800s might include... Probably something about the low "unemployment" rates.

[@barryirlandi4217]

Loooooool

[@rafaelneumann8365]

Prager U already has videos about how the Apartheid was good and how Nelson Mendela was the devil, so guess they're already of the curve of awful.

[@namithacd5650]

I'm sorry I cannot even watch the whole video. It BOILS MY BLOOD as an Indian that someone would say that the greatest tragedy that ever happened to my country is actually good.

[@adhirajsingh1806]

I get so angry when especially Indians say that the British empire was actually good for India. I can't believe someone can be this uninformed and outright stupid about the worst thing that ever happened to us.

[@stevenwall2010]

PragerU: “The Empire did nothing wrong”

[@ardiharyadi5020]

PragerU: "The Empire had a better chance againts the dominion"

[@ardiharyadi5020]

Phillip yeah, that is more likely to happen

[@larissabrglum3856]

I used to be blissfully naïve and think that there weren't still large numbers of people out there defending colonialism.

[@Apoc2K]

And in such a ridiculously disjointed and facetious way too. You have to go out of your way not to see the glaring discrepancies in their statements.

[@cremetangerine82]

As a Virginia native, *I* had education that emphasized the evil of slavery and that it was the main reason for the American Civil War! H.W. Crocker III is a revisionist charlatan!

[@jonomoth2581]

If someone is told the British did many evil things, and they have also been told that they are British, they will feel as if they are being blamed for doing evil things, which is also wrong and discriminatory. So of course they will feel threatened and try to justify or ignore those evil things. I think to help this it's important to make a distinction between the guilty minority of British people 100s of years ago and the innocent majority of modern Brits.

[@lool12366]

@@jonomoth2581 Stop being a snowflake. The very real effects people face due to colonialism are 1000x more important than some rich guy's feelings.

[@jonomoth2581]

@@lool12366 I am not being a snowflake. I accept colonialism happened and was a terrible thing. I am explaining why many people do not accept that.

[@223Drone]

PragerU: "We accuse the "left" of promoting historical revisionism while we promote historical revisionism ourselves."

[@kafkabigmon]

Thats the alt rights entire thing, projection and misdirection

[@lacedemonians]

@@kafkabigmon - You just projected The Left.

[@lacedemonians]

​@Amateur Historian - As I recall, Ramzpaul questions the long touted "6 million" of the Holocaust. I don't know if that number is inflated or not. He supports Israel's right to exist as a Jewish ethnic state. But he is critical of America's large financial & military support of Israel. This is perfectly legitimate. BTW, American conservatives are long standing supporters of Israel. Contemporary anti-Semitism overwhelmingly comes from the Radical Left and its ally Radical Islam.

[@douglaslangley9251]

@@lacedemonians yep, thats why its all those leftist alt righters going on about jews controlling the media and banks and carrying on with the globalist dogwhistle shit. Criticism of Israel is coming from the left, antisemitism is coming from the right, fawning over Israel is coming from the right. Lets not forget that radical islam is conservative and not progressive so that ball is in your court, not the "radical left" Friendly reminder that semite would include Arabs as well. Lot of groups spoke semitic languages.

[@douglaslangley9251]

@@lacedemonians Jewish people should be supported, the brutal state of Israel should not.

[@ETYPEJaguar38]

"Liberty loving Empire". Two words : Opium War.

[@rawfrags7355]

England:Buy our drugs China: nah fam *England is justifing a war against you*

[@norwegianboyee]

"Drug dealer empire angry that your people are quitting drugs" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[@mirqtheliar925]

Lazy Revolutionary don’t forget the second opium war

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

Now Israel is doing that to America.

[@ericmussett6897]

"Country that has denied the freedoms of ethnic groups" also makes America sound all that much more comfy doesnt it.

[@airborne_arachnid]

*looking at phone* "Freedom was an Englishman's right" *bursts out laughing and has an asthma attack because only rich people could vote before 1832, and even then only 1 in 7 men had the right to vote*

[@StudioUAC]

Okay

[@Erika-gn1tv]

Somehow I feel the people at PragerU would like it that way.

[@nicolasg7601]

Perci 888 Their parliamentary democracy within Britain was progressive relative to other European states, yes. That doesn’t mean their colonialism was, though. The obvious alternative from even at that time (doing nothing) was way more progressive.

[@nicolasg7601]

Perci 888 There’s no way you can say that world trade wouldn’t have developed without Britain. World trade is super profitable, and historically it has almost always developed at the maximum capacity allowed by contemporary technology. The Portuguese and Dutch were already doing everything Britain would anyways.

[@NikovaRaskol]

A very well known fact of history is, how the British Empire liberated China of their silver, and gave them the liberty to enjoy civilized goods like opium.

[@8jijjoo126]

Imagine being this mad because we sold you good quality drugs.

[@aav56]

"We"? You personally sold opium to the Qing Dynasty?

[@NikovaRaskol]

@@8jijjoo126 Was this supposed to be a feeble attempt at a joke, or the show of general ignorance. The century of hummiliation is a sad fact of history. I don't know why you would feel the need to defend the exploitation of others.

[@8jijjoo126]

@@NikovaRaskol the chinese got sold drugs and lost a bunch of coastal areas. Hell, one of those coastal areas is rich as hell( Hong Kong). As far as oppression goes, what did we do wrong?

[@NikovaRaskol]

@@8jijjoo126 Who is we? Are you identifying yourself with The Brithish Empire? "As far as oppression goes, what did we do wrong? "----> " the chinese got sold drugs and lost a bunch of coastal areas" I'm just stumped. You either contradict yourself in two senteces, or you think that addicting people to drugs and forcing them to give up their sovereign rights is not immoral, evil, malicious, a dick move (choose one)? Are you justifying oppression?

[@nickbell8353]

"(The Confederacy) might have had slavery, as did the United States, but there was no tyranny." There is so much wrong with that sentence, I don't even know where to begin…

[@NetherlandsFirst]

PragerU is talking about tyranny by the government over its citizenry, not tyranny towards black people. This has nothing to do with race, PragerU is run by people who are by no means white supremacist. In fact, PragerU has made an incorrect video about the US being all about different races and cultures forming one nation, and that the idea of 'e pluribus unum' was always about the idea that all cultures and races should come to the US and create a new people. Prager is a globalist shill who cares about money only, and he wants various races to come in and be treated completely equally, all the while forgetting that the replacement rates of whites are not going to stand a chance against the influx of the migrants. The US will soon be a majority non-white country, and Prager is completely fine with that - it seems like he couldn't care less about the US's originally WASP origin. So saying that he is a white supremacist is downright stupid. Prager and other conservatives have also quite clearly said that slavery was wrong, but it was part of the times back then. As it was in many other countries, including African ones. I find it odd to refer to slavery as 'tyranny', as generally when we use the term 'tyranny', we're talking about affairs concerning government power over its main citizenry, and slaves AFAIK weren't considered citizens. What you mean is 'oppression'... tyranny is not the term people normally use to refer to things like slavery, because slaves are not the (main) citizenry of a country.

[@flyindevil]

@@NetherlandsFirst Tyranny: cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control.

[@NetherlandsFirst]

@@flyindevil Again, I'm talking about how the word is normally used, and with what definition PragerU is using the term in their video. Quoting a generalized definition is not very helpful. I'm well aware that tyranny can mean what you have quoted it to mean, but that's not how the word is being used in this particular context. I'm also not particularly interested in getting into an argument over like 5% of my comment (the usage of the word 'tyranny'. I'm sure we both have better things to do.

[@mekullag]

Enigma So there‘s one reason to like Prager. A racist moron on youtube hates him.

[@AshDemonYoung]

@@NetherlandsFirst Oh no a crazy person. 'They're takin' our jubs"

[@johnnyringo80]

Funny thing there: For German speakers, you could skip the entire part about the subtleties concerning „liberation“ and „conquest“, because here, those are basically synoyms - thanks to Hasbro: In an effort to make the game „Risk“ seem less militaristic, they changed all references of „conquering“ to „liberating“ in the German version. Which fooled exactly noone and established „liberating“ as an on-the-nose euphemism for conquest. There is actually a documentary about German colonialism in Africa titled „Liberate Africa!“ like a Risk mission card. I swear I had to giggle when I heard them say „Liberators“ in the original clip - like, do they really not know what „liberating“ means?

[@MCDreng]

To seem less militaristic? The game is literally about war, why would they even try?

[@tylerm6453]

I heard it was done after WW2 as a response to Germany trying to market themselves as not trying to conquer ppl. Understandable

[@bendym7001]

Well, the "politically incorrect guide" is incorrect about politics, so... points for honesty, sort of?

[@frechjo]

"Historically incorrect" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[@Psy_Ro]

these have appeared a lot recently. In brazil we are plagued by them

[@fulcrum2951]

Those south american corruption issues ain't gonna go away for a very long time Even if a dictatorship gets into power..

[@matthewstewart5566]

So. I'm a native welsh speaker and we do, in fact, have a word for republic. "Gweriniaeth". David Lloyd George would have known that as a welsh speaker. This point is ridiculous.

[@AnnoyingOrange420]

matthew stewart It’s just an attempt to put down the Welsh; “these people are so stupid and undemocratic, they don’t even have a word for republic!” Just because Republic doesn’t translate literally, or he made it up, I wouldn’t be surprised

[@ozymandias6644]

As if you need a word to be free, what an elitist logic that is.

[@hopclang9409]

@@AnnoyingOrange420 and where was Lloyd George born?

[@reddyshreddy5050]

@@ozymandias6644 tbh gives me 1984 flashbacks. Can’t even know what the word for freedom is let alone what it entails. Though a bit unrelated

[@AstraIVagabond]

His name... is _literally_ H.W. Crocker III. A (relatively subtle) satire couldn't produce a more apt name. :o

[@pupyfan69]

Bernard Whiggingsly XVII

[@xylophone897]

Is he a crackpot or a crockpot?

[@danang5]

@@TheTazzietiger thats no longer satire thats just straigh up jab on the topic

[@jeffersonclippership2588]

W A S P A S P

[@tonytruong861]

FAIRIES

[@ΣεληνίτηςΒυζαντινής]

Egypt, Sudan, India, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, Guiana, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Uganda, Tanzania, Yemen, Oman, UAE, Singapore, Malaysia, Swaziland, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Lesotho, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Mauritius, Maldives and 77 other players approved this video.

[@someweirdo258]

Ireland approve

[@avarachael5011]

@@B-26354 I don't know for sure about that, but even if it were true, just because they may have done some good things does not absolve them of their mistakes. That logic didn't work when you tried it with Santa Claus, either. Stop playing like you didn't learn right from wrong when you were a child.

[@dovermaskot4441]

@@B-26354 "who died in defence of Malaya against communist insurgents" I call that BS. Not one of them (unless probably being Malayan himself) cared about "defending" Malaysia but defending the power and rule of the British Empire there. Had the Empire not finaly given in the demands for independance and freedom by the malaysian and singapore people, they would have been forced to leave without having any influence in that region. And then you bring up Yemen? How come you arent aware that the British Empire actually supported the saudi monarch against those demanding freedom and independance back then? Or how they altered the political reality there just to counter homegrown independance movements at all? Yemen is a prime example how colonial rule actually prevented an independant "hong kong" version there. It had already that status during the British rule, but the Empire was by no means willing to have the Yemenis enjoy the wealth their Aden port was generating for their own good. Why do you think what brought independance movements (wether communist or not) into existence in first place? They all were just too stupid to choose being the next "Hong Kong"?

[@avarachael5011]

@@B-26354 I didn't read the rest of that because of the same problem: you're just making up shit about me and my opinions, while hilariously, projecting what you are doing, onto me. You are the one who thinks in Black and White. I'm trying to talk some sense into you, but you have the capacity of a child. That's why you have to be spoken to like a child: so you can understand. Stop making up things, that's a start. Breathe. Put down the meth pipe. Calm down.

[@حَسن-م3ه9ظ]

>Iraq and its 420 accounts liked this

[@myndflowers7751]

This Guy’s Next Book: A Politically Incorrect Guide to Jim Crow

[@Unknown-eg5xz]

Mynd Flowers also a factually incorrecy guide to Jim Crow

[@cossaizy6309]

@@Unknown-eg5xzfollowed the proud south fought for state rights across all the USA

[@Phos9]

Char Zy man not even pragerU tries to pretend like that’s true.

[@cossaizy6309]

@@Phos9 yeah seems kind of hypocritical that theyd invite a guy who actively supports the states rights myth after releasing a video saying the civil war was about slavery.

[@mickeydrago9401]

We could use Jim Crow again, or do you think there is some great advantage to miscegenation and integration? Are we enhanced living around black people? Quite the opposite given enough of them

[@AbeDaApe]

"Empire" is not a word associated with "liberators." They are literally antonyms

[@vcomrade]

"Dyer became a hate figure for anti-colonialists" *IMAGINE MY SHOCK*

[@TheFiresloth]

I love how it implies that anti colonialists were over-sensitive snowflakes for not liking a war criminal.

[@jakestavinsky3480]

@@RadacStungnthumz *several hundred

[@ozymandias6644]

Yup.... Kill unarmed people who had gathered to celebrate festival, what could go wrong... What kinda bs propaganda PragerU is

[@LeonidasArg2021]

>Liberty-loving Empire >the word "empire" cames from French "Empire" >french word also cames from Latin "Imperium" >Imperium means dominion and conquest top kek

[@willnash7907]

No that's not what imperium means. It's in the ballpark though.

[@dacoyote7699]

Semantics but okay

[@felicityc]

@@dacoyote7699 that's etymology not semantics this is semantics

[@ce8354]

that is not what imperium means thou

[@LeonidasArg2021]

@@ce8354 I always supposed Imperium meant "Dominion" or shit like that. I should look for its etymology lol

[@melledevries4685]

You could've just uploaded a 2 second clip of that guy saying "liberty-loving empire"

[@brucenatelee]

Then the dumbasses wouldn't get it.

[@barryirlandi4217]

I'd prefer the clip on repeat for two hours!!

[@duskydancing6409]

"Liberty-loving empire" *screams in Gaelic*

[@alexmcbride7563]

DuskyDancing Yep, I dare the people of PregerU to say that in Ireland and see how the Irish respond. Heck try that in Scotland and Wales and see how that goes.

[@pogotheclown6088]

gaelic extremist

[@Gillemear]

Impireacht grámhar saoirse (the actual translation as Gaeilge)

[@seasicksteave92]

Holy shit, this guy.... As an Irishman I was internally screaming at the mention of England being content to 'leave people alone' Thank you for addressing that nonsense in timely fashion

[@jackdoyle7453]

Really is that because the Irish were such a driving force in the whole empire thing whereas the English were more content to be traders?

[@notlikely4468]

Hey...my relatives got kicked off their farm in the highland clearances Was there anyone the English didn't piss off? Any Welsh out there?

[@dewittbourchier7169]

@@notlikely4468 The enclosure movement affected England too ... and a lot of the people doing the enclosing in Scotland were Scots. It was class warfare not ethnic warfare.

[@craigkingdon4424]

Well it's technically true! They left 1 million people alone to die in the famine after having put them in that situation.

[@dewittbourchier7169]

@@craigkingdon4424 That is a gross oversimplification. After all many west Irish grain and beef merchants, some of them Catholic, preferred to ship their food to England rather than eastern Ireland. Why? Because due to transport links it was simply cheaper and a lot more profitable to do so. And throughout there was a tense disagreement in Westminster as to whether Trevelyan was correct or a bloody fool. Ireland was regarded as an integral part of the UK just as Wales or Scotland was.

[@oscaval5649]

i am british, and it honestly shocks me that anyone would actually believe this shit that prageru says here. even here, we are shown the empire with a very negative look

[@leon6777]

Just look at our museums

[@wysanniksikondominium584]

Following this logic, Poland should be grateful to Stalin, because he prserved us from nazi ocupation of eastern part of our country in 1939.

[@wysanniksikondominium584]

@Pasha Staravoitau It's not an argument to occupy anothers country land or to sign treaty with Hitler.

[@wysanniksikondominium584]

@Pasha Staravoitau Firstly, it wasn't non-agression act, but act of partitions of Poland and Baltic countries and secondly, there's a difference between Poland and USSR policies; for example, Poland wasn't killing anyone or collaborating with Nazis.

[@communismyes5607]

@@wysanniksikondominium584 yes, it was a non-agression pact. Stalin literally wanted to form an alliance with the UK and France to stop Hitler but those countries refused so he had no option but to sign the pact with Hitler as the USSR wasn't ready to take on Germany with no allies. Stalin invaded Poland to stop Hitler from taking all of it. And it wasn't a planned thing. You guys always make it seem as if the Soviets and Germans were like fighting together to conquer Poland which is inaccurate. The USSR wasn't killing anyone (except nazis and kulaks) or collaborating with nazis. And yes, Poland kind of was killing people. Jews and other minorities were being killed in Poland before the nazis came.

[@Aaron-ju2bt]

@@communismyes5607 feels good to propagate stalinist propaganda doesnt it?

[@sirius1696]

@@wysanniksikondominium584 I mean, yes, they should be grateful to the Red Army, without which there would be no Poland And let's not forget that Warsaw signed a treaty with Berlin and jointly invaded Prague in 1938, or how Pilsudski was given a state funeral by Hitler, or how the Polish stole Western Ukraine and Belarus in the 1920s or Poland's expansionist plans for the Baltics (Intermarium, anyone?). Let's not pretend the Polish were hapless victims who did little wrong

[@Meqq1337]

Comical, shiftless, ignorant, stubborn, contumacious and cruel Irishman here, would just love to thank the English personally for saving us barbarians from our bogtrotting, druidic ways. Without them we would never have learned the joys of being under the boot of an empire or having to live in grinding poverty while they siphoned our resources to fund said empire! LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!

[@gojimovedchannel1478]

You mean British not English

[@alicethemad1613]

Well… long LIVED the Queen, now, anyways.

[@hungryepicboys8895]

“England loves liberty and allowed nations and individuals to govern themselves” *Ireland, Scotland, the Indian subcontinent, China, USA, Falkland Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, a good chunk of Africa, any Catholics before the 1960s, closeted/openly Gay men/women, and most of the Middle East have entered the chat*

[@chrise842]

You mean before the 19th century. Just want to remind you of the Tractarians, famous Anglicans converting and becoming romish bishops etc..

[@gojimovedchannel1478]

What a stupid comment

[@gojimovedchannel1478]

The quote is Britain which Scotland is a part of

[@gojimovedchannel1478]

Falklands voted to remain British

[@gojimovedchannel1478]

Maybe make an actual original joke which makes sense

[@ScaredEz]

Literally hearing “The English man brings freedom wherever he goes”, makes any who is remotely competent in basic history, cringe at this false over-simplification of colonization.

[@thepoppets1052]

Not even anyone competent in basic history, kids in elementary school Social Studies classes can tell you Crocker is absolutely dead wrong

[@SuperGameHut]

@Place holder name is place holder the British empire was the greatest benefactor and profiteer from slavery, it was evil.

[@blixer8384]

Place holder name is place holder They brought death, they brought slavery on an industrial scale, they brought subjugation and exploitation. The only people who benefited from the “liberation” the British Empire brought where White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. I dare you to walk up to any Irish person and tell them they benefited from British Rule.

[@blixer8384]

Place holder name is place holder Oh and you don’t get credit for putting out the fires you intentionally set. The English helped end the Atlantic Slave Trade. But they also helped to fucking create it. They along with the Spanish, French, and the other European powers built the trading posts where the slaves were bought, and armed and bankrolled the slave traders. You don’t give firefighter of the year award to an Arsonists who put out a fire they intentionally lit.

[@redrooster3420]

@@placeholdernameisplacehold7671 I'd just like to say as a canadian that there was never any real peace for aboriginals here (this should be obvious), and the fact that anyone would think of colonialism (and capitalism) as peaceful rather than violent is fucking disturbing and saddening to me.

[@schitzie]

Next up: Prager U -- Why You Should Love Apartheid It's coming.

[@heavypupper1219]

They already did. "Why you should support Israel"

[@schitzie]

@@heavypupper1219 Reality is stupider than the stupidest thing I could come up with, and it even beat me to the punch. I guess what they say about truth being stranger than fiction is apt.

[@samkuperman9035]

Alice Victoria Why You Should Love Apartheid: Guest Starring Elon Musk and his Family Estate

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

"Dr Pragerlove, or how i learned to stop worrying and to love the Concentration Camps"

[@---kp1hm]

“Some have said ‘seperate but equal’. But why should they be equal?” - Dennis Prager

[@Violent2aShadow]

"Liberty Loving Empire" Now I've heard everything.

[@TheMrVengeance]

Three cheers for colonialism! \o/ \o/ \o/

[@CountScarlioni]

What they meant was "economic liberty loving empire". The Empire was indeed all about free trade and deregulated markets - The sort of thing that gets Dennis Prager hard. The rights and freedoms of anyone who isn't a rich white male is of no concern. Both for the Victorians and for PragerU!

[@SpaceGhost1701]

You've clearly never watched Lindybeige.

[@TheMrVengeance]

@@CountScarlioni - If by "economic liberty" you mean, liberating everything that's valuable from the people it rightfully belongs to. Then. Yes!

[@CountScarlioni]

​@@TheMrVengeance Exactly. Only PragerU would actually try to defend that kind of thinking!

[@Mathee]

Next PragerU video: "Hitler: the Hero who ended World War 2"

[@pinheadlarry1977]

@zipZIP lmao

[@demammoet]

He did end world war 2, he consistently went against his brilliant generals with his mindfucked tactical ideas. Lucky for us.

[@duranpredur1098]

@@demammoet Yep, same thing with the insane "Wunderwaffe" taking a lot of ressources that could have been used better.

[@duranpredur1098]

@Jhonny Auditore So sad, praise him!

[@jonathand3842]

@Jhonny Auditore lmao

[@Zarastro54]

LOL, when you showed that book about the British Empire, I _immediately_ thought, "this Crocker guy sounds like a confederate apologist/Civil War revisionist," because he uses the exact same whataboutisms, obfuscations, and heavily cherry picked information and quote mines to prop up his flimsy arguments. And lo and behold, HE IS ONE! You can't make this shit up! And I literally thought that his stuff sounded more like an imperial apologist from the 1910's when you said it!

[@ashleym9674]

This was such a weird hill for them to die on.... like lmao

[@lucybrown1929]

I wondered the same thing; but then it occurred to me: these horrible distortions are a perfect recruiting tool for alt-right indoctrination. You can't grift everyone; however, such lies do appeal to the ignorant (who will happily swallow it) and the dishonest (who will happily spread it). P.U.'s brand of pseudo intellectual bull**** provides the "odor of academic sanctity" needed to confirm one's preexisting biases. In essence, P.U. only has to reach a predisposed audience for their propaganda to succeed.

[@DanksterPaws]

@@lucybrown1929 You made me wonder how much actually believe them, so I wen’t over to their video and looked at the Like to Dislike ratio as a gauge..... I was expecting something like 1 like to 30 dislikes or something. Bro they’re almost the same. 29k likes to 31k dislikes. Wtf??? I was expecting more dislikes, and this is on such a blatantly biased video, I wonder how many more believe their milder shit

[@davidlovesyeshua]

@@DanksterPaws You are much more likely to actually click on a PragerU vid if you are alt-right than if you are politically sane. For example, I haven't watched the British Empire video, nor disliked it. Why would I waste the time? I've already watched a few of their videos selling intellectually hollow propaganda on other topics. 1:1 like/dislike ratio is basically as bad as you can expect it to get (with the exception of a virally disliked video like Justin Beiber's Baby), and a lot worse than you can expect most bull***t to end up.

[@Eastcyning]

Weird hill to die on, but at least they're dead

[@a.t.3192]

"Bringers of freedom" Yeah, nothing says freedom like slavery, oppression, genocide, mass rape, mass incarceration etc.

[@Spanishdog17]

You could put the Onion logo over every Prager U video and it wouldn't change a thing.

[@blitcut9712]

Nah mate. The onion often has some connection to reality.

[@jakes1566]

@@blitcut9712 also people watch the onion

[@corbindickson8089]

Case study of the British Empire: Burma. The British (kinda reluctantly) overthrew the Burmese King because of logging businessmen who lobbied for it. Exiled the royal family, lumped what was an independent kingdom as part of their India territory. Abolished local, traditional governance, brought in Indians to rule for them because the British couldn't be asked to directly govern what they saw as such a frontier, backwater place. Since independence, many of the various ethnic groups who were manipulated by the British against each other are still in armed conflict today - essentially the longest civil war in modern times. And people of Indian descent (or Muslims, they generally don't distinguish the two) are heavily discriminated against; sentiments that have remained since anti-imperialist movements because it was the Indians, not the British, that many Burmese perceived as the colonizers since the British used the Indians as middle-men. All of which of course goes against every one of PragerU's points

[@the_mandhi2051]

It gets even more wild , though. When the Burmese nationalist movement started cooperating with the indian national Congress , the British reintroduced the split. Wouldn't want oppressed people to get stronger by collaborating with each other. As indian independence movement started to get stronger , the British did everything they could to keep Myanmar isolated from it. Just vile.

[@ericmussett6897]

If you two want to point out everything bad about a country, then do it about hoth sides. America and Britain. I dont believe they try to explicitly say britian is the best state, just that the idea of freedom comes from the british empire.

[@ericmussett6897]

Even if it is misguided. To make people do something in the name of freedom that otherwise contradicts the meaning of freedom.

[@the_mandhi2051]

@@ericmussett6897 to say that the idea of liberty comes from Britain is an extremely western-centic point if view. There were philosophical bases of individual liberty in most Asian cultures and would have developed "freely" if not for colonialism.

[@normtrooper4392]

@@ericmussett6897 they're not just pointing about bad things for nothing. Prager U are making assertions that the historical evidence of Burma soundly contradicts and which Prager U ignores because it contradicts their opinion about imperialism. Instead of trying to take a nuanced perspective, they've opted to lay their hat that British imperialism was good and it wasn't

[@superstone13]

The most popular shared holiday in the entire world, is Independence Day. More countries celebrate their day of independence from the British than any other holiday. The only major liberation the British empire was involved in was nations liberating themselves out of their choke hold.

[@kropotkinnie]

Hi I'm late but I just wanted to thank you. When I was twelve I got into alt-right and neo-Nazi stuff, probably a lot more than the average alt-right baited kid (had one year where I was *very* scarily supportive of the Nazi party and would tease minorities to their face over it), and finding these KZbinrs did so much for me. It's really sickening to realise how wrong you were and how fucked up you were from it, and I still deal a lot with guilt and issues of being prejudiced without noticing, so these videos are genuine therapy for me. A couple of years ago, just after I'd finally started veering back to liberal stuff and finding videos like this, my mom got a boyfriend who happened to be black. Had it been three years ago, I know I would have been a horrible person to him, never given him a chance, and considered him sub-human. It makes me cry to think about now, because he's an amazing step-dad and makes both my mom and I very happy. I was so lucky to have found videos like this. Now, I consider myself a socialist and I try my hardest to take part in BLM and other minority movements; I'd consider myself very far left and very anti-hate, and these videos have helped me to relearn a lot of morals that I lost in my time in the alt-right. Especially the ones on modern day racism and sexism; now I'm not afraid to call myself a male feminist, and to stand up for the people I used to want to oppress. I still suffer so much guilt over that time in my life, but it's probably nothing compared to what I put a lot of minority 'friends' through; I didn't deserve them. I hope that now I can use my experiences to help shape the lives of minorities for the better and make people happy rather than afraid. Thank you for your videos. You were one of the first producers I found, and what you've done means the world to me and, though they don't know it, to my family and friends.

[@Tyrionhessen]

wow, great to hear that. I am a Muslim and I was just as you once nearly brainwashed with extremist stuff not that I would blow up lol but I would show support to hardcore organisation , really.Then it took me luck to find channels and Muslim scholars like Hamza Yusuf who then enlightened me then I went into sociology to study about society and today I value my freedoms I value the western freedoms I value my cultures from back home and Europe. I am a proud European yet also Muslim yet also African , and I wish to see all humanity work together and I wish to see those Muslim dictators and terrorist stop hijacking us. hence why I see I can feel you , let us help enlighten those who are lost.

[@papastalin1736]

I have had a vasectomy

[@kirafoxwell8654]

@@papastalin1736 really glad to hear that!

[@papastalin1736]

Kira Foxwell Thank you fellow citizen

[@ogrebattlewarsong]

You should really consider telling your story to a wider audience. It's very important.

[@onionbreath002]

"Mr. Crocker, how do you think the Union won the civil war?" "There can be no other explanation. The union was helped by... *spasm* FAIRY GOD PARENTS!"

[@Rozdlc]

I was hoping for a comment like this

[@danieljones7169]

“Mr Crocker, if the British empire was a;l about freedom, why did practically every country it colonized fought to get rid of it?” “Easy. They were all misled by mass brainwashing that could only be done by...” SPASM FAIRY GOD PARENTS!

[@shadownavi2788]

This video was the catalyst that changed my life for the better. I was hardcore conservative until the fate recommended me this video. This was the start of a domino effect that moved me over to the left. I saw it again rn and i just wanted to come back and say THANK YOU SHAUN. You rock.

[@Samwwrl]

Welcome, comrade

[@azka5088]

Yes, indeed. That British Empire, video along with Rosie the Riveter armwrestle and overwhelming one sidedness on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict changed me for the better. Pains me how they always either use half truths, inconsistency, or straight up lies to convince people (including me, initially). (example is Denmark isn't socialist, but later on they would promote Biden as if he's a socialist revolutionary)

[@austinfletchermusic]

Hope it's still going well out there!

[@thomaslichman5365]

Imagine using the word "liberty loving" and "Empire" in the same sentence.

[@emmettchan5545]

Shaun, your videos are like pure soy pumped directly into my veins.

[@iainhansen1047]

Emmett Chan it means you won’t go bold so you better appreciate it.

[@issaosama4937]

The soy squad

[@hayleygullett]

Ghost Poop Squad

[@gerbenvanessen]

@@iainhansen1047 bald* he will boldly, valiantly, and bravely still go. but he will have hair, he will not be bald.

[@IizUname]

S O Y B O Y

[@pierreproudhon9008]

When ghandi said that quote, he was still being fooled by Britain and hadn’t started the independent movement yet. Prageru is deceiving people by quoting famous people at their naives.

[@danksamosa3952]

Yeah, he was part of a group that believed that British liked democracy and all, it's just we need express to them.

[@xm3405]

@@danksamosa3952 Nah Gandhi accidentally time travelled to 2019 and binge watched PragerU and went back.

[@JD1010101110]

Aye it may have been when he was getting a degree in London, or his party was winning local and state elections in India. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnSueKB_d92qj9k

[@zackyjenkinson6902]

Gandhi was a racist paedophile. He actually supported apartheid but only complained because it also affected Indians and not just black people.

[@blackgold754]

They even quote Martin Luther king who would’ve never been conservative at all

[@amolkhobaragade]

British gave us (Indians) freedom by creating white only hotels in British raj. So much freedom!

[@tasinal-hassan8268]

Bengali Genocide. Never forget it.

[@tasinal-hassan8268]

@@placeholdernameisplacehold7671 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

[@the_mandhi2051]

Idiotic. The food was used as "backup" stock for troops. It didn't directly help with the war effort. 2 millions Indians dying because of a malicious policy isn't a "fortunate " thing. No.

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

The British were the Israel of their time.

[@ericmussett6897]

I shouldnt have said freedom to eat food, they never with held such freedoms.

[@thecitizenoftheinternet1077]

PragerU: The British Empire was spreading freedom! Indigenous people of Australia, indians, the native americans and the founding fathers of America: Are we a joke to you?

[@user-wu6xl4wq5q]

PragerU: The British Empire was spreading freedom. China: Freedom to drug our population then force us at gunpoint to allow it?

[@jakubmike5657]

Yes...yes you are a joke to them.

[@cossaizy6309]

@@user-wu6xl4wq5q T.E lawrence: so are we gonna grant the arabs a big ass kindom or give each arab nation a country of their own Freedom loving british empire: lmao no

[@yonatanbeer3475]

PragerU: the British Empire was spreading freedom The American founding fathers: *am I a joke to you*

[@charmenietraumtor5671]

I had to do a double take when I heard the justification of the empire is a moral one line. Ah yes, the classic "utopia justifies the means" kinda trope...that is used for characterization of VILLAINS. Except not fictional. I am honestly dumbfounded it was put forth as a legit point.

[@wok3220]

The "H.W" in "H.W Crocker" must stand for Half-Wit.

[@sweyn6947]

Me: sees Shaun video Well guess I'm not doing anything else then

[@antifacog8552]

Same! Literally stopped editing a video to watch this!

[@crusadercrisps]

wow me to

[@okayso1747]

Shaun is perhaps the politest you're going to get when it comes to 'talking to conservative people'

[@friendstastegood]

I was going to say that I think Contrapoints wins that but then I remembered that people are weird and think that words like"shitgibbon" are rude regardless of context.

[@miklosszabo4551]

True conservatives don't believe in all this shit. Being conservative means you believe in family in the traditional sense and the value of honest work and base your actions on these standing stones. Don't think that every ideology that is somewhat right wing is immediately conservative or the other way around.

[@miklosszabo4551]

@@macmcskullface1004 Yeah, I can stand behind that.

[@fayefischer1751]

@@miklosszabo4551 I have yet to hear a conservative agree on that, interesting. can you describe your political ideas? like outside of traditional family and stuff, where would people with your beliefs stand on current issues? I'm genuinely curious because its super hard to find conservatives who aren't total nutjobs

[@miklosszabo4551]

@@hydrochloricacid6731 It is allowed to be gay, them not having the right to marry is a different question. A traditional family holds traditional values which are productive and move the world forward. There is no such thing as a gay family since it is scientifically impossible. There are solutions to that and i understand that(if a gay man has a sister or another close relative which is willing to go through a pregnancy from his brother's boyfriend's sperm, but that's the closest it will ever get probably). I have no problems with gay people, in fact two of my closest friends are gay and we discussed this issue before and they share their views with me on this matter.

[@anyagobsin]

"The British believed the final and necessary justification of their empire was a moral one" never in my life have I heard a sentence more begging for a 'but,'

[@jaojao1768]

Yes, technically they thought they were moral but their morality was extremely skewed by modern standards. For example Cecil Rhodes claimed that the english race is the best in the world, and thus the world will be better the more area the english control

[@sherlocksmuuug6692]

@@jaojao1768 It sure was a lucky coincidence that it happened to be them who were the chosen people, no empire ever came up with that one before.

[@woaddragon]

@@placeholdernameisplacehold7671 Wait a minute what. The British made had believe their imperial ideas and organization were better than say, France or Germany, but their really no morale way to justify an empire that covered a quarter of the globe. The German even pointed this out in the years just before WW1. The German might be attempting to build an empire for resources and glory, but at least they were honest about it.

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

What if the Africans took it upon themselves to jungle-ize the white folks? We would be fish out of water in their world, we're just not evolved for the savannah, we're at a natural disadvantage. Likewise, the blacks are less equipped for city life and or farming but they're dependent on that to eat now because the Brits made them forget how to hunt and father and everything their tribe passed down through oral tradition on how to survive as a hunter-gatherer.

[@cpd7172]

Thank you for this. My grandparents suffered during the British empire in Uganda so I got pissed when I saw the video.

[@yoshi0k262]

it pissed me off being irish and now i can right it him off as a racist

[@gsgs4101]

Pissed me off being British, people need to stop romanticising the empire and see it for what It was.

[@InfernoBlade64]

Lol prager u’s imperialist propaganda is so blatant

[@cianhanrahan7337]

As an Irishman I am absolutely sickened by his description of us in his book.

[@TheTheThe_]

You could always become a republican...

[@tardersauce3578]

Ah yes Gandhi, the famous lover of the British empire

[@nazeerkhot3651]

Thank you for correctly spelling Gandhi.

[@R0B1NG5]

I'm Irish, and obviously bias, but I'd have to say the penal laws imposed on Ireland by the English government alone almost refute any idea that the Empire was about "liberating" countries, or that they had a light touch in government or were even handed in their dealings. Some of them lingered into the 20th century and explicitly discriminated in overt ways against Catholics (ie 95% of native Irish people). They were designed to suppress the culture and strip the power of native born people from a country under the British Empire. And thats just one part of Irish/English history. It just boggles my mind that they skip right up to the formation of the republic with some hand-waving away of vague stuff that might be questionable before that just for some anecdote about etymology.

[@samrodrigues3199]

No, you're absolutely right, and that was what rubbed me the wrong way the most. Memories of past history classes are vague but I recall that in some cases like in India, famines that occurred weren't deliberate but more gross mismanagement with (it can't be emphasised enough) truly horrific and appalling consequences. This was certainly not the case in Ireland. It was all deliberate, and it sickens me to think only a hundred years ago the UK government were fine with policies that continued this. Of all the shit the UK did, it's what happened in Ireland that leaves me feeling guilty the most.

[@ciarancassidy7566]

@@samrodrigues3199 Look, as an Irishman don't feel guilty. You didn't have any hand in what happened. Instead learn from what happened, spot when the ideologies that caused these things start cropping up again and do everything within your power to oppose them. We can't change the past and being guilty won't help you change the future. Instead be resolute in your commitment to "never again".

[@Jotari]

Only a hundred years ago, try only fifty years ago. The IRA weren't exactly justified in their actions, but the Troubles happened for a reason.

[@samrodrigues3199]

@@ciarancassidy7566 Thanks man. Here's hoping our government doesn't stir anything with this damn Brexit deal.

[@samrodrigues3199]

@Scott Mamby Excuse me for feeling some compassion for millions of people who were displaced or died needlessly.

[@Fournier46]

This view that's been spread, wasn't it also a PragerU vid?: "Feminists should ultimatley thank men for women's liberation, because we men are letting them have rights." Or basically, women should thank even oppressive men for losing the culture war. So if we defeat Boko Haram are we stupid & privleged if we don't thank them for allowing themselves to be defeated? xD

[@jonsnor4313]

Feminists should not view men in general as the enemy as some men did indeed enable women rights and likely some male supporters too. That doesnt mean women thank men for anything, but men are not the enemy, its mostly crude structures and politics, yes with some men enforcing that but they dont represent most men. Most men likely dont care either way and would go along with anything. If some of the rare man hating feminists do antagonize them they do the cause a huge disfavour. Thankfully most dont do it. Basically it isnt a battle between genders at all, it is against crude structures and opressing traditions.

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

@@jonsnor4313 I'm pretty sure any feminists who view men as the enemy, instead of complex social structures and traditions as the enemy, are made more of straw than flesh, sinew, muscle,... um... I meant prageru was straw manning, I'm not going to eat people or anything.

[@jonsnor4313]

I think so too, or the small minority of that kind of people you find in every group, and say nothing about feminism as a whole.

[@Fournier46]

@Scott Mamby Through use of faulty statistics, and statements that look true but never had sound basis, professional perception managers encourage you to have that belief, sorry to say. While bitter feminists have made us both feel that way at times (or often if you've had to take a women's studies class with a bitter teacher), but the belief that feminism has made women worse off or less happy has been debunked well by various KZbinrs. It was a belief we got paid to try and program you with, sometimes by clients who were fooling themselves, letting their own bitterness convince themselves of a sweeping view of the world. Now I have an easy life because I don't have to live around grating identity politics or anti-masculinity. Maybe 1 out of every 20 self-described feminists in my area are actually like that. But if you are on some college campus where something like 17 out of every 20 feminists hate men then I can empathize with why you want to believe this fully anti-feminist worldview, one that many paid perception managers want you to believe.

[@LukeofSmeg]

Opium wars? Now that's what I call the lightest possible hand!™

[@tvremote9394]

my guess would be that they're glorifying the british empire so that they can justify the current empire that america is trying to construct in places like venezuela, middle east etc. if they say the british empire was bad, they'll be forced to admit the american one is bad for the same reason so they think why not glorify both?

[@Sophie.S..]

Agree

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

America is the India of Israel. AIPAC needs to #QuitAmerica

[@nardyman8501]

@@ealusaid Yeah they should have just let Iraq murder Iran and the Kuwait, and test chemicals weapons on religious minorities

[@CassidyCope]

@Cis White Male With Extra Privilege *_Adds three worded topic sentence with no supporting detail or even clarifying which of the multiple comments the comment is replying to._*

[@CassidyCope]

@Cis White Male With Extra Privilege That's not supporting detail, that's a quote from a racist. Is there an issue with your copy and paste or something? Do you need help from a tech support worker? Or are you just lonely and confused?

[@lob5645]

The video was definitely made for americans with all of the "small government" lines that only make sense in the context of American politics. America may have been the enemy of the British Empire at one point, but the American government and its apologists continue the British Empire's legacy of imperialism and client-state nation building.

[@OoKingcarpoO]

Yeah i mean the cause for the american revolution was basically some rich white landowners saying: "we don't want to pay taxes anymore to england and we want to gouvern america ourselfs". And than they let a bunch of poor people die for them. It was a bourgeoisie revolution if anything. Hell in the beginning they did not even want poor people to vote. So much for "liberty".

[@lacedemonians]

@@OoKingcarpoO - America was a comparatively rich white country. George Washington's army was made up of volunteers.

[@starchythepotato2877]

Ohhhh I've got a brand new shiny helmet and a pair of kinky boots

[@neverendingtoasterbath956]

I’ve got a lovely new flak jacket and a lovely khaki suit

[@starchythepotato2877]

and when we go on night patrol we hold each other's hands

[@neverendingtoasterbath956]

WE ARE THE BRITISH ARMY AND WE’RE HERE TO TAKE YOUR LAND

[@Exodon2020]

My good friend Bertie, he's in the UDR

[@thatguy8637]

@@Exodon2020 searching for weapons, he’ll go near and far

[@meegle.teedle]

"Even Ghandi praised the British Empire" Hahahahah ok sure bud

[@Apoc2K]

Imagine genuinely believing Ghandi himself, literally known for his opposition of English rule, was secretly an imperial bootlick. There can't be that much in the ways of higher brain functions if you can hold two conflicting ideas like that without concluding that one of the two must be incorrect.

[@luskarian4055]

@@Apoc2K He was partially for it in his younger days, but it quickly changed after several incidents during his time in South Africa

[@iamthecaptainofmysoul2293]

Why don’t you read the quote?

[@howto6433]

If Gandhi was not there Than we had gotten independence too early And it is Gandhi not Ghandhi

[@ozymandias6644]

@@howto6433 Nope... That's not true at all, neither I believe Gandhi was sole reason for Indias independence, nor I believe in right wing Indian bs that you just wrote. WW2 and it's impact on Britain, and all the pressure that was mounting on Britain from the outside, coupled with Freedom movement in India all culminated in India getting freedom.

[@jdprettynails]

"The British Empire was good, actually!" Um...I think Ireland, India, Australia and, oh yeah, AMERICA would disagree.

[@witchywaze9648]

Africa and Jamaica as well.

[@elroma7712]

Half of the world

[@rynemcgriffin1752]

jdprettynails Don’t forget the Middle East

[@007kingifrit]

america here: no british values ultimately made america great.....and america would be impossible without it

[@jackdoyle7453]

You mean Ireland that was an integral part of building that whole British Empire thing?

[@nihilism1652]

As a Pakistani who is painfully aware of their existence as a postcolonial subject in the global south, all I can say to the Prager video is: LMFAOOO The British empire is the reason why the Indian subcontinent today has the following issues: • religious fanaticism • transphobia • capitalism • crushing debt and poverty • lifelong animosity between Pakistan and India • need I fucking go on

[@nihilism1652]

@@alex17252 it's a good thing this is online or I'd have ripped you a new one~ 💜

[@i_likemen5614]

@@alex17252 Yea, it was a bunch of smaller countries that were just as diverse as Europe

[@enterchannelname200]

@@alex17252 There were the Mughals and Martha's and Southern Dynasties about like Europe.

[@gopher7691]

Capitalism is a good thing. It is right now lifting 100s of millions of Indians out of poverty. India was poor because Nehru was a socialist The Hindu/Muslim animosity precedes the Raj by several centuries. The british managed to keep a lid on it while they were there. The british have been gone for 70 years. Quit whining and build a thriving state. No one is stopping you You needn’t go on because you are a fool

[@sarahts21]

"Liberty loving empire"... can I have some of what this muppet is smoking please?

[@MirageReaper]

Probably opium if I had to guess. After all, the British Empire was also a drug cartel during the 19th century pushing opium. This is also pretty ironic considering that there is also an opioid epidemic today in the UK.

[@pogonator1]

I think he is sniffing glue, at all it could explain what happened to his brain.

[@PasCorrect]

@Xiaomu K "well what liberties did the other places before the empire came " Hmm, let's see. Governing themselves, speaking their own languages, controlling their own land and resources, practicing their own religions and customs, not being abducted and sold as slaves halfway across the world........

[@ryanjapan3113]

Xiaomu K the first Persian empire had religious tolerance (the guys who invaded Greece)

[@ryanjapan3113]

Xiaomu K and they banned slavery

[@LOLquendoTV]

Last time I was this early, the UK still held Hong Kong

[@raquetdude]

Soon it's gonna be "Last time I was this early, Hong Kong was still a semi independent country" 😅

[@hmmmhmmm6917]

@@raquetdude It's never an independant country. It belongs to China as it has through history.

[@meislouis1381]

panddda boi it's already that, China is already controlling it more and more over the last few years

[@brianfox771]

@@hmmmhmmm6917 : Pretty sure Hong Kong was a sleepy, quiet, backwater fishing village before the British nabbed it after the first and second Opium Wars. Modern Hong Kong is a product of the British Empire, for better or worse.

[@aperson6505]

last time i was this early winston churchill was still oppressing irish people

[@KKrisist]

You and Three Arrows are doing good work. Keep it up man. Can we get a collaboration at some point?

[@FUNBadTime]

We need this!

[@randylongstreet8398]

Three Arrows is a favorite.

[@shirshanyaroy287]

HBomberguy, Shaun, Three Arrows, Philosophy Tube collab, overseen by the great ContraPoints herself.

[@randylongstreet8398]

@@shirshanyaroy287 also Kyle Kulinski, Majority Report, Ana Kasparian, TYT, Hasan Piker - not really philosophy, more politcal but they do good work

[@KKrisist]

@@shirshanyaroy287 The Night Mother herself!

[@graceskate]

As an irish person this video makes my blood boil. No 800 years of oppression and genocide didn’t teach us to be free. How Prauger U can state such lies is beyond me.

[@subroy7123]

"Freedom was an Englishman's right. And wherever he went, he took all that hardcore freedom with him, finding p u r e, v i r g i n lands to squirt his freedom all over their raw-material-rich bosom."

[@peterprime2140]

Please stop making me want to be colonized by Britain.

[@nic_a_bic6780]

As am irish person I'm ready to drive a "modified" car into the pragerU studio