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

[@user-qv2qf1jk5o]

PragerU: **makes videos on how oppressed white people are** Also PragerU: **insults Irish people and says they deserved to be oppressed**

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

It's crazy that some folk still casually draw a distinction between 'white people' and 'The Irish.' lol That's some Gangs of New York shit.

[@shady8045]

I’m Irish :( Maybe they are right though, I want to fucking end their careers and their right to spew their nonsense so it makes sense that they would want to oppress me

[@DirtyPoul]

@@fuzzydunlop7928 The Irish are white or non-white depending on the argument and interests at hand.

[@conorflynn6666]

mary smith this one

[@Gamenetreviews]

cool goggles kid You should read the guys book on the British Empire, he can’t go a chapter without saying negative comments about Irish people. He thinks every thing the British Empire did was good so every time the Irish revolt it’s an example of the natural violence and inferiority of the “Celtics”. The guy is clearly super racist and misogynist yet of all the prejudices he somehow hates the Irish the most.

[@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.

[@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 .

[@alexcereuceta5907]

It’s simple: if I owned 200 slaves and you owned 10 and I decide to liberate 20 and you liberate all your 10, I, objectively speaking, liberated twice as many slaves as you. I’m a twice as greater greater of a liberator of slaves as you... That’s their logic.

[@ivanvoronov3871]

The British empire did end the global slave trade

[@Rynewulf]

@@ivanvoronov3871 Sadly only after making mass use of it for several centuries

[@mugdhosutradhar2438]

@@ivanvoronov3871 No.

[@jamiel6005]

@@ivanvoronov3871 the one they started?

[@boldizsarfekete7576]

Another comparison could be like looking at a beautiful villa... That is filled with cockroaches that invade the house, nest in all the walls and make everything inhabitable. Everything appears legit, until you look into it in the slightest way

[@Sgtcrispytoast]

"It may have had slaves but it was no tyranny," ??????

[@evansageser6943]

There's actually been a weird trend in American history for recognizing two types of Freedom. The type we're familiar with is a more Germanic notion wherein we have the idea that each individual holds certain inalienable rights. In essence, it doesn't matter who you are, there are some rules about how others can treat you. But there's also a much more insidious idea sometimes known as "Libertas" based off of more Greco-Roman ideals. In this system, freedom is not a right afforded to all, but a privilege granted to some. Back in the Greco-Roman world, they spoke highly of freedom, but only those who were citizens (male property owners) were granted freedoms, other people did not have this privilege granted to them because they were deemed less deserving. This is why Athens had slaves and democracy. And unfortunately, since the founders were using Greek and Roman systems as their ideal, this concept of freedom as a privilege carried over, and it became perfectly acceptable for one to think that a person should have the freedom to own other human beings. Thankfully, we had enough people (including actual German immigrants) who kind of recognized this was BS and the fourteenth amendment recognized that these rights belong to everyone, not just an arbitrary subsection of the population.

[@amadross9781]

Evan Sageser Super good comment! I’d also stress that “tyranny” in the US is treated as the opposite of republican governance, so the whack author is using tyranny to refer to Northern states imposing laws on Southern states. It’s an absurdly narrow definition of tyranny though, and hardly makes sense given that the tyranny in question aimed to abolish a practice that deprived a people of their allegedly inalienable rights

[@dreamcrusher112]

@@evansageser6943 I know your comment is a month old but to add to it - the reason I think that the neo-cons identify with this Roman justification for slavery is the fact that those who are poor, slaves, captured in war or have hit hard times 'deserve it' and merely need to work harder to remedy this. You can see this play out in modern America, where certain parts of society will happily doom the disadvantaged to poverty because they must have done something wrong to get there. It's an interesting link and something that really sets America apart from most of the democratic world.

[@dreamcrusher112]

@@amadross9781 The author is drawing from Kant, who had a rather impressive distaste for non-whites. Inalienable rights, legal processes, categorical imperatives apply only to those who have the ability to be logical. White men. To Kant and to people like this author, there is no tyranny in slavery because those illogical people have no inalienable rights. Kant.a racist, and Heidegger, a Nazi sympathiser, both believed that to allow yourself to be property of another meant that you were literally nothing more than an object.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@dreamcrusher112 I feel like they'd get along famously with H. P. Lovecraft.

[@thatlycantomboy]

Shaun made a lovely argument video when he literally could’ve just made a list of every country that has a holiday celebrating independence from britain

[@charlieputzel7735]

That would've made for a much longer video lol

[@EmmaBonn96]

I like to say that on average once a week someone celebrates Liberty from the British empire

[@ShitkidOfJamrock]

People like to make jokes about how Germany has to keep their head down because of the haulocost But the British empire owned half the world and used hundreds of millions of people as a resource. They literally addicted a whole subcontinent to opium just so they could use them as labor and sell them more opium A substantial portion of bollywood movies have British villains solely because of India's past as basically a puppet slave country. The British empire singlehandedly stalled, altered, steamrolled, or outright wiped out hundreds/thousands of different independent peoples, for capitalism. Democracies are just a side effect, since dictatorships are just as common an outcome for their colonizing.

[@Exodon2020]

To debunk this "historian" it's sufficient to simply quote a Top-Comment i recently read undernead a video of an Irish Rebel song: "Independence from England is the most common holiday around the world." If the Brits were really that benevolent they would be remembered way more fondly.

[@minhducnguyen674]

It's hard to hear about the British empire's liberty over the sound of the Irish album dedicated to 800 years of occupation.

[@MichaelJohnsonAzgard]

Remembered for giving a lots of countries extra holidays. Something to be proud of.

[@fizzylovesjam5378]

Shows how cool we are i suppose

[@officialromanhours]

Go on home PragerU, go on home

[@minhducnguyen674]

@@officialromanhours Come out you PragerU come out and fight me like a man

[@kaimilloy1534]

As my good friend once said: "If it wasn't for Hitler, Britain would be the main villain of Earth's history."

[@roinymphornithorynque3282]

They are *this post was made by french gang

[@chesspiece4257]

Britain’s the first villain, hitlers the sequel

[@dragonslair951167]

That’s definitely not a far-fetched idea.

[@generic7916]

I mean, you can kind of say that about most western european countries.

[@Predator20357]

generic and like Eastern Countries, I’m not saying this guy is a idiot but you can make a case about many different countries like how France tried conquering the entire place of Europe, Spain literally stripping South America and leaving, Mongolia and there ruthlessness, China and how one emperor mass slaughtered scholars and worked people to death.

[@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.

[@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

[@JesseColton]

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

[@Kameth]

"Liberty loving empire." Genuinely had to pause at that sheer paradoxical statement.

[@norwegianboyee]

Sounds like the US spreading "freedom" to oil rich countries.

[@Kameth]

@@norwegianboyee Freedom for me to do whatever I want, freedom for you to obediently accept whatever I want to do.

[@ZeLunatic]

Same! first clip in and I already had to stop and shake my head, lmao. For an historian that dude doesn't seem to know a lot about basic history.. ..or, we don't mean the same thing when he says something like "liberty".

[@settkundesu]

I would say there is no such thing as real freedom. If there is, then this world would go into chaos.

[@gabriellarena2256]

the liberty loving empire shall consume everything, resistance is futile

[@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

[@ananyatank2877]

Hi Shaun!! An Indian fan of yours here Thank you so much for talking about the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre. The bullets shot nearly 101 years ago are still lodged in the walls of Jallianwalla Bagh and Britain has still never formally apologized for that incident only expressed 'regret' in 2019.... Twenty fucking nineteen....100 years later only 'regret'....smh I would suggest anyone who plans to visit India to take a trip to Jallianwalla Bagh in Amritsar.....It is a very humbling experience..Especially if you have an iota of knowledge about the horrifying incident that took place (Fun fact: Dyer, the guy responsible for massacre, was not tried for murder and his only punishment was to be removed from his current employment. And after learning about this incident Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate, renounced his knighthood and stated "such mass murderers aren't worthy of giving any title to anyone")

[@nazeerkhot3651]

Wasn't dyer killed by some revolutionary freedom fighters who traveled to London and shot him in the head? I don't remember the name.

[@ananyatank2877]

@@nazeerkhot3651 that's not true....He died of cerebral haemoraage.....He suffered from a series of stroke in his final years.....I think you've confused him with Michael o'dwyer who was assassinated by Udham Singh

[@nazeerkhot3651]

@@ananyatank2877 yeah i did. sorry for the confusion.

[@SaraSG1]

That was not a fun fact. I demand another fact. /sarcasm

[@chrise842]

What got the Norwegians got to do with that?

[@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.

[@MadeleineSwannSurreal]

Someone with a name like HW Crocker III sounds like he's going to have a well rounded view of life and struggles for the average person

[@Bioking333]

Crocker the Third, mind you

[@MadeleineSwannSurreal]

@@Bioking333 indeed, ha!

[@FUNBadTime]

@@Bioking333 He's a clone, I knew it!! /s

[@arzy1996]

Somebody who will of course take a completely non-biased view on the British empire hahaha

[@samrizzo4628]

100% this guy grew up in a Wasp style family. They all have that hard enunciation in their accents. Not like they take their time to speak properly but he puts hard emphasis on the ending of every word and every vowel.

[@astonishedmemes1814]

"liberty loving" "empire" what?

[@Hawkatana]

The Stormtrooper pic just sells it, tbh.

[@astonishedmemes1814]

@@Hawkatana never realized it fit this comment, lol!

[@IloveGorgeousGeorge]

Darth Vader, the Great Liberator palling around with his good buddy, Liberator Palpatine

[@solarsatan9000]

Britain was liberal for the time But for the 17th-19th century its not hard to be liberal

[@sundayschoolflunkie3979]

They loved liberty...for British people. Everyone else can suck a big one for all they cared.

[@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

[@andrewb.8184]

"Give me liberty or give me death" was actually just the colonists asking for a second helping of that sweet, sweet British liberty

[@minch333]

"Politically incorrect" is just the politically correct term for racism these days, isn't it

[@LimeyLassen]

I'm old fashioned, I just call it evil.

[@lupo-femme]

Spot on!

[@riikkatheiceprincess_she_h8725]

Well, it includes more than just racism but pretty much.

[@GoofProofYew]

Well.... Racism is definitely politically incorrect. But to be politically incorrect you kind of just gotta say something that might pissed the far left off, you don't need to be a bigot to be politically incorrect. To think otherwise is pretty ignorant

[@xerxsesbreak8455]

@@GoofProofYew When I see scoffing at political correctness, 90% of the time the person in question is being racist/sexist/ or homophobic. No doubt, progressive people can go further than is reasonable to preserve political correctness. I do have problems with that as it frequently results in disproportionate responses to what frequently amounts to an accident. However, ultimately the goal of political correctness is to be less shitty to the people around you, and I think most people who aren't being actively shitty tend to recognize that.

[@lifehacksyoutubedudewiththeroc]

“Hi, I’m dennis prager. Did you know supply and demand? Flower shop! This shows capitalism has no flaws!”

[@TheKing60210]

His definition of Socialism makes me cringe Everytime...

[@_TehTJ_]

Life Hacks KZbin Dude with the Rock I read that in his voice

[@Kletterhase]

wasn't there a dutch tulip speculation bubble that collapsed?

[@Leivve]

@@TheKing60210 Basically anything he doesn't like. Including the negative consequences of the free market.

[@Reza-hz1ce]

@@Kletterhase lol yeah there was

[@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.

[@twat3789]

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

[@ssssSTopmotion]

Using 'freedom' and 'empire' in the same sentence is an oxymoron

[@mistermagoo8685]

That’s Anglo-Saxonism for you look up Thomas Jefferson “Empire of Liberty” which he basically makes the same claim as this fool. And look up liberal imperialism which the British used to justify their empire.

[@sand_sand7304]

Except “Freedom from the Empire”

[@connorconnor1631]

using em in the same sentence is an oxymoron if you don't include an odd number of negatives

[@BananaWasTaken]

Although if you want to be pedantic you can come up with plenty of statements that include them both. For example: Without The British Empire, many countries wouldn’t have had the opportunity to fight for their freedom. Many countries gained freedom from the British Empire. The British Empire liberated many countries from their freedom.

[@MCPretzelM999]

Next PragerU video: "Why You SHOULD Say the N-word"

[@lateshpatil5307]

Why you should force feed Hindus beef LoL

[@IloveGorgeousGeorge]

f R e E s P e E c H f I r S t A m E n D m E n T

[@TheLolo099]

Something along these lines: Why the N-word isn't a bad word. "The N-word has lately become one of the worst curse words, but it wasn't always. The N-word derives from the word negro, which is latin for 'black'. It's not a hateful word, but rather quite the contrary. In many African American cultures one refers to each other with the N-word as brothers. This is actually an atribute to the empowerment of African American people. If we look at historical figures that have used the word you find among other Malcolm X with his quote: [insert two qoutes that doesn't belong together], or maybe you find greater comfort in Martin Luther King jr about the topic [Insert quote out of context]. You should use it too. It's not only legally allowed but also morally right. The only reason we do not use the correct term today is because the leftist mafia has threatened the media to allign themselves with extremists and terrorist organizations."

[@Henry-pe4rn]

@@TheLolo099 Great satire.

[@thegreensunsetgroup2501]

@@TheLolo099 Scarily accurate satire.

[@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.

[@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

[@jonathanrao4876]

PragurU's guide to getting a 0 on the AP World History exam.

[@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.

[@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?

[@lukei7291]

Politically Incorrect more like historically incorrect

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

both

[@BookWyrmOnAString]

Incorrect about politics

[@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.

[@jacondo2731]

>empire >freedom loving yeah no it does not work like that

[@sulphurous2656]

>what is the Ottoman Empire

[@jacondo2731]

@Cis White Male With Extra Privilege the british never won a war in mainland europe

[@jacondo2731]

@Cis White Male With Extra Privilege eventho i dont like the eu the EU is not an empire

[@samrodrigues3199]

@Cis White Male With Extra Privilege Thank you, that will be all

[@ryanjapan3113]

Cis White Male With Extra Privilege is this the real thing?

[@death_crater]

As a Canadian, that one line about how the British Empire "didn't try to turn the native population into Britons" and "just left them alone to be themselves" is honestly just shocking to me

[@wednesdaybell3062]

Fellow Canadian here. I literally laughed out loud when that Crocker guy claimed that the British "left people alone." Pretty sure forcibly removing Indigenous kids from their families to put them in schools designed to "kill the Indian" in them is not "leaving people alone".

[@cossaizy6309]

@@wednesdaybell3062 >"they didnt try to turn natives to englishmen" >Literally all my palestiniam grandfathers look like englishmen complete with suits and mustaches and curled back hair.

[@norwegianboyee]

British colony administration: "Turn yourselves into cheap knockoff British citizens we can subjugate or die." PragerU: "JuSt LeFt tHeM AlOnE tO bE tHeMsElVeS!"

[@MrFaceeatingcancer]

As an Australian knowing the history of forced assimilation and the deliberate destruction of cultures, languages and indigenous people . It's mind boggling just how ignorant this person is

[@TheKiroshi]

"They left them alone to be themselves" Oh.. is that what you call Residential schools? Yeah. PragerU clearly has no honest historian on their side.

[@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.

[@suezuccati304]

PragerU trying to use Ghandi to defend the British Empire gotta be one of the funniest things I have seen PragerU try to pass as an argument

[@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

[@cleothehermetichermeticist8391]

“Britain was a great, liberty loving empire.” India: *Visibly confused*

[@Twilord_]

Ireland, and seemingly many "new world" Indigenous peoples from across the English speaking-world: India, friend... you're not drowning in unlocalised-for-your-culture media from across the English-Speaking-World, filtered in large part through WASP imperialism itself, so take it from we who are... just run, and never stop running, otherwise you're gonna become desensitised to this gaslighting bullshit.

[@tompatterson1548]

they just weren't very good at acting on it, but the ideas did spread thanks to the empire.

[@Lylybeebee]

As an Englishman, can confirm, we were (and still are if you look at brexit) horrible horrible people

[@jamiel6005]

*Welsh, Irish and Scottish confusion*

[@TehAnimationSparxx]

@@Twilord_ unfortunately, india has no shortage of that either.

[@AbeDaApe]

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

[@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

[@monsieur1936]

Prager U next video's title: Why famines are good.

[@squarek123]

If you live in tolerance, thank Nazi Germany.

[@melonlord4055]

@@squarek123 Why the Trail of Tears saved Native Americans.

[@sylveonguy7709]

How to use agricultural disaster for religious and economic shenaniganery

[@A_duck9853]

Why Thanos was right

[@TheBaleadaMan]

Why apartheid is good

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@a.t.3192]

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

[@cantin8697]

As a British person myself.... Our history was pretty appalling, as far as I know. Mind you, I haven't done history for 4 years now. Invading countries isn't "liberty", and I'll agree with you Shaun that, if the Americans loved being in the British empire so much, why did they fight to leave it?

[@chrise842]

Maybe he just should have pointed out British culture of basic law philosophy. I mean I would have hated it to have been an Indian widow before the Brits interdicted widow burning and actually enforced that.

[@chrise842]

Let's agree humanity is shitty and the idea of a savior necessary to be crucified for our sins isn't so wrong. Also agreed you Brits have been intriguing a lot. But rather have a popish Spanish empire with inquisition extend into the 21st century instead? Or pantheistic/animistic human sacrifices instead of mere Indian widow burning?

[@chrise842]

German communities in Texas and other parts of the early US had good rep on how they treated minorities usually.

[@mattyb9991]

@@chrise842 let’s agree that you’re a goof

[@RR-pc7yv]

​@@chrise842 What Indian widow burning? There is no such thing called widow burning. That is another colonial era propaganda and hoax by British Empire apologists.

[@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.

[@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

[@PartyC4nnon]

“Lee and Jackson, Stuart and Hill, while Southern Generals, were American Heroes as Well. We’re all in this together.” Uhh...no we weren’t. The confederate states literally wrote declarations of independence literally explaining that we weren’t.

[@yankeewithnobrim226]

Please title your next prageru video “How Prager lies to U”

[@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

[@kashyapshirodkar7947]

PragerU: Be thankful to Britain 62+ countries: *was that a joke?*

[@007kingifrit]

all of those countries are better off because of what britain did

[@KyanbuXM]

@@007kingifrit Honestly that was in spite of that, not directly because of it.

[@007kingifrit]

@@KyanbuXM no it was directly because of it, the stability and values given to those regions through control from a clearly superior culture benefited them

[@paulelkin3531]

@@007kingifrit I would very much like to hear how shredding the stability and values of Ireland benefited the island's people in any way.

[@007kingifrit]

@@paulelkin3531 stability? the vikings used to use you people as human sacrifices and slave labor the british were your protector from the wider world and you shared in the wealth and stability the british gave you, not always, but ususally

[@meghanhenderson6682]

"Margaret Thatcher...generally." That fits on soooo many "systems of oppression" lists without editing.

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@squirrel_slapper]

Irishman here, when you mentioned Ireland as an example of the British empire being awful I actually cackled with joy. I found your channel recently and honestly, I can feel my attention span improving just from listening to you. I have ADHD, so I hope that comes across as the compliment it is intended to be :)

[@geekyradical4985]

The British ruling class had so much in common with the ruling class here in Ireland

[@cl8804]

no squirrels were slapped in the posting of this comment

[@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!

[@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

[@zbh9268]

"the lightest hand" around their throats.

[@manospondylus4896]

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.

[@1MSubsNovideos]

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!"*

[@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.

[@chrism822]

The British also liberated people of there art and treasures. Great liberators.

[@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

[@nicholasbutler153]

Crocker: "The Celts never had a word for "republic". Me (I speak some Irish): "Poblacht".

[@Jellygamer0]

It's literally in the name: an poblacht na hEireann

[@puma7372]

What's the etymology of that word?

[@Jellygamer0]

@@puma7372 shaun said, it comes from public

[@maboroshi1986]

I mean it’s true. Lloyd George brought it up during negotiations (being a native welsh speaker he knew that celts didn’t have a literal word for it). So it had to be made. So we have the word now. Does it matter that it wasn’t a word in Brehon law days? Can languages not evolve?

[@brogansmith1342]

By that standard, English doesnt have its own word for republic either. It's just the Latin words "res publica."

[@tardersauce3578]

Ah yes Gandhi, the famous lover of the British empire

[@nazeerkhot3651]

Thank you for correctly spelling Gandhi.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@polaroid6175]

I can’t believe Americans are glorifying my countries awful history 💀

[@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

[@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.

[@samumohacsi]

"A man that stood by the British imperial principles of justice, fair play, and decency - delivered by force if necessary" If that isn't a quote straight out of a dystopian story, I don't know what is.

[@HeadCannon19]

"We will show you our peaceful ways, WITH FORCE!"

[@MsZsc]

alan watts

[@johnpatterson4816]

Conservatives:Just because you disagree with Liberals doesn't make them Socialists!! Liberals-Just because you disagree with Conservatives doesn't make them Fascists!!! Both sides : BRING BACK PYSCHO DAD!!! AND LEGALIZE SHEMP!!!

[@rileymitchell3510]

It's literally just the iconic villain speech written by any author clearly aware it's bullshit and done with some degree of satire.

[@theregalproletariat]

Only to a degree? Power without love is uncaring and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

[@thewoolooherder5918]

Their logic: “This 7-year-old with cancer doesn’t know the word ‘ anesthesiologist’ and thus we cannot have her visit the hospital to make her Make-A-Wish dream come true, sorry.”

[@potaterjim]

So I'm Canadian, and we recently found a mass grave of indigenous children under a residential school I guess we have the "Liberty loving British Empire" to thank for 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.

[@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

[@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

[@SillyVixen420]

I'm not a swimmer, but my favorite stroke is Margaret Thatcher's.

[@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

[@calebringo18]

I wonder if this Crocker guy also beleives in FAIRY GOD PARENTS

[@maxroti1273]

Instead he'll be shouting at a liberal

[@wardencalm5625]

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one.

[@alfatazer_8991]

I came here expecting a comment like this. *You've done me proud son.*

[@maximusmedia8412]

hablocomogringo FAIRY GOD SOCIALISTS

[@TroyBlackford]

"Sure, the martians killed a lot of people, but the victims didn't even have a word for 'Churro' until it was GIVEN to them by the Martians, right before disintegrating them."

[@georgechristopherreports929]

If you can believe it my AP History Teacher actually used the Politically Incorrect Guide to History Books in our class.

[@georgechristopherreports929]

@Abu Omer It's exactly what it sounds like

[@useroffline9999]

oh dear

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

my german teacher used mein kamp as a homework project

[@elitistdsaliberal1032]

PragerU: anything we don't like is leftist.

[@ThePainkiller9995]

I wish

[@StarPlatinum3000]

@rick sanchez Ooh, edgy comments made by a guy who likes Rick and Morty and names himself after Rick. Let me guess, you think you're a misunderstood intellectual and much smarter than your 14 year old peers, a special snowflake whose intelligence is so massive that it is almost a burden to you.

[@iwiffitthitotonacc4673]

@rick sanchez I've never seen anarchists, communists, socialists, marxists, etc. call each other "alt-right." Are you sure you know what you're talking about?

[@mcdrums87]

Optimist: the glass is half full. Pessimist: the glass is half empty. PragerU: THE GLASS IS A LEFTIST!!!

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

@@mcdrums87 I quite honestly spit out my drink laughing at that comment. Well done

[@dentallychallenged9000]

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?

[@nic_a_bic6780]

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

[@noahnelson6385]

Such a great combo of logic, information and sarcasm. Quality vids. You’re great!

[@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.

[@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

[@rheiagreenland4714]

" imperial principles of justice, fair play, and decency -- *delivered by force if necessary.* " Jesus Christ

[@SSofIreland]

"You are being rescued, please do not resist!"

[@cowlin5051]

Bruh the British empire was one of the largest distributors of independence days in the world.

[@yihandeng5320]

Wait true lmao

[@anirudhviswanathan3986]

Yeah. Us Indians really got "liberated" in the 200-ish years under British colonial-ism.

[@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.

[@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.

[@michaelanderluh6372]

when he was calling Irish people barbarians, my Irish brain started playing come out ye Black and Tans

[@lucywucyyy]

as an english person i feel like i should learn more about the empire, we were taught about the tiananmen square massacre in school but never taught that our country basically did the exact same thing, i knew the empire sucked but it never occurred to me it was that bad

[@lucywucyyy]

@@the-biggest-turnips i wasnt the schools i went to were all shit and didnt teach us anything all we were taught was england great bla bla best country bullshit i bet those schools havnt changed lol

[@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.

[@duckdad557]

this is the same argument as "people treated their slaves very well!" but on a larger scale. disgusting

[@alisaurus4224]

duck dad okay but look at all the people i DIDN’T murder! Where is my recognition for that?

[@baguettegott3409]

I swear to god if I hear "but Jefferson was a NICE slave owner!" one more time... Usually followed up by "also, Sally Hemmings wasn't even that young. You can't measure these things by today's standards!".

[@joehepworth8497]

"Fair play delivered by force" does he not see the irony in that statement

[@boodle399]

Tbf Britian totalitarian reign on the entire world did give a lot of people ideas of freedom and liberty....as in wanting liberty and freedom from the British