The Disturbing History of Tobacco | Empires of Dirt

[@VICE]

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[@timfenrich5328]

Why isn’t she reporting how China is committing genocide?

[@Mr_Rabbit]

@@timfenrich5328 maybe if you find a way to link it to hating white men, she might report on it.

[@antagonizerr]

When is Vice going to tackle their relationship to the Proud Boys alt-right group? Or is that a bit too close to home?

[@jasonwoods3711]

Every country in the world was founded using slavery !! All those empires built on slavery.... Even Africa. India has to be the worse though under Muslim rule back in 15th century.

[@jasonwoods3711]

I thought when ya said look here for empires of dirt, There would be a massive list ?? But they all seam to be targeted at one little island ! Like they were dirt by themselves ... Those countries Britain took slaves from ~ like Africa... certain African families made themselves rich too !! No mention of them ?? Who were they...

[@mdbergfeld]

Most surprised by the fact that they were able to film in nice weather.

[@kaspasuudiem]

the bad weather everyone associates UK with is long gone, at least in the south

[@garrison1915]

Most surprised slavery is still a big deal when humans have been using slaves for manual labor since we've been around

[@kevinshmuk7237]

@@kaspasuudiem im in glasgow and it rains nearly everyday

[@playoffl36ron8]

@@garrison1915 means were growing as a species

[@garrison1915]

@@playoffl36ron8 too bad our growth is inefficient

[@joannenugent8495]

I come from Glasgow and we studied "The tobacco lords" at school but I don't ever recall slavery being mentioned.

[@houseplant1016]

Seriously?!

[@Sol-Cutta]

@@houseplant1016 yes seriously.

[@Sol-Cutta]

They weren't used here in the United kingdom's...only over in Virginia where it was cultivated.

[@610231718]

She also used the word slavery a dozen times in the first 2minutes like we get it you just wanna talk about slavery

[@NoMoneyHubby]

Of course not

[@bennyrodriguez9352]

Nobody remembers their names. Just like everyone will remember Jordan but not the kids in sweatshops making them.

[@MarsKvaratskhelia]

Spot on 👍

[@julianshepherd2038]

Ooft!

[@ixis]

^This comment^: Nike does evil and made bank off of the name of a black man. That's why I don't need to feel bad for the fact that I'm racist. Way to go, racist apologists.

[@gusto8069]

Thank you!!!

[@PanzerAce760]

True dat

[@CrazyMonkey679]

Please do something about the ‘Irish famine’, and how it was actually genocide not famine. Ireland had enough food to feed its starving population but yet the British continued to ship food out of Ireland. Leaving people to starve to death, people literally having nothing but grass to eat. The effects of British colonialism on Ireland is not nearly talked about enough.

[@straightfacts6043]

British and Ireland issues are well known.

[@IXLDGOLD]

@@straightfacts6043 So well known that most americans still think Ireland is part of the UK? yea, thought so. Its no where near as well known as it should be

[@gobot581]

That's happened alot in Africa. They export their resource and import their own overpriced ones and force them to use that instead. If just left alone Africa is the riches continent in the world

[@Luke-Emmanuel]

@@straightfacts6043 not really. Not in the places that still suffer.

[@RetroAP]

They're white so it doesn't matter I guess

[@divineeyeobserver754]

Nothing has changed.. Still slaves.. The world smokes it The rich get richer

[@lorrainepollock9554]

No we just get it on the cheap

[@punkyoliverio]

I agree

[@socialistsolidarity]

yep, it's just (a little) humanized and it's called capitalism.

[@mrcool2107]

@@socialistsolidarity and a filthy terrorist called communism

[@RK-rf8rc]

Love how the camera angles emphasise that she’s talking down to us

[@nealejames2243]

4:55 She's only 3 foot tall

[@THEcamobackpack]

You're projecting a lot about how this made you feel

[@RK-rf8rc]

@@THEcamobackpack You don’t know much about photography techniques do you? I’d suggest studying early cinema and the psychology of framing, or actually lightening up a little, before replying next time.

[@Sault40]

It's just history my dude

[@sonnymp1337]

@@Sault40 its not just history its vices history

[@bingrijper]

Could you please do a series like this in Holland about the Dutch Colonies and what they did.

[@tomjones7184]

Don’t be silly, the only empire to ever exist in her mind was the British.

[@mrcool2107]

@@tomjones7184 she is fraud . Paid by mostly chinese to spread fake news on Britian .

[@timepasstubee]

@@mrcool2107 keep crying 🤧

[@punkyoliverio]

This show is really interesting.

[@OriolVilalta]

not really. it kind of showcases everything wrong with vice.

[@punkyoliverio]

@@OriolVilalta yeah, many interesting things... It would be nice to have different sides, I hope they do a panel discussion... That would be interesting too.

[@成余骏]

@@OriolVilalta OOP, colonizer thief got offended

[@maximuseuropa1355]

It’s really biased and anti white

[@timepasstubee]

@@maximuseuropa1355 as it should be.

[@DarylSolis]

You really can not judge what happened over 200 years ago with today's modern perspective on the topic.

[@therideneverends1697]

Yes you can. Abolitionist movements where well underway at the time, there was noone who "did not know" what they where doing was wrong, they just dident care. bad people who made money doing bad things, nothing more, simping for them aint gonna make you wealthy

[@danes5143]

@@therideneverends1697 A very small fraction of society pushed for abolitionist movements but the majority of society supported slavery. The societal norm was that slavery was okay and black people were lesser. It was normal way of life back then and slavery was happening for thousands of years before that, so no you cant judge what happened 200 years ago with todays modern perspective because people and society change and develop different views and beliefs overtime.

[@jonathanjohnson9611]

@@danes5143 Funny how you people never say this when European/British history is being glorified. So we should just ignore the history that we don’t like?

[@jhunt5578]

Irrational defensive anger at history incoming

[@minmax5]

Yeah it was like that on the last video in this series....

[@PrinceZakariyya]

British guilt lol

[@Mr_Rabbit]

@@PrinceZakariyya Britain should be as guilty as any other country that has supported slavery at some point in history. So pretty much every country in the modern world.

[@adamwyker4800]

@@Mr_Rabbit no sir!! This doesn’t apply to non-white nations. I’m a proud colonizer/colonialist. Change my mind.

[@Sault40]

The early comments scare me

[@pinnedcomment8614]

fun fact of the day - The last letter added to the English alphabet wasn't Z - it was the letter J.

[@JohnDoe-zj5dj]

Ok explain, alphabet man

[@Solodolo222]

@@JohnDoe-zj5dj he the alphabet ambassador

[@glennoconnor1130]

Good fact. Cheers

[@Juanaponymous]

This woman must be 9’8”!!

[@eduardogalindo5364]

Sign her up to the WNBA

[@entertexthere1127]

Nah, beetlejuice is 15feet tall. She short compare to beet.

[@purplelanternxox6793]

@@eduardogalindo5364 lmaoo

[@goddammitboi]

Heels?

[@nealejames2243]

4:55 looks around 4 feet 6 inches

[@kaml.7341]

All her videos about the shameful past of Britain are priceless, and should be on the watch lists in all libraries around the world. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@jjfr08]

😂🇬🇧lol

[@truthseekermedia]

Everything is for money that is already inherently worthless. It is our beliefs in the need for these things that we remain enslaved.

[@brianburton6897]

😀 were all going to die

[@darkvoidb9717]

Inherently worthless lol

[@CarbLoaders]

Look around, these people are the pioneers of their day. You say it's "inherently worthless" while many inherit the benefits of the cities, schools and churches they've build. If it wasn't for men like these, many what we now know as metropolitan areas around the world would still be grassy fields.

[@nathanaeljoseph2226]

@@CarbLoaders you think this is progress

[@xDRAGONSHAGGERx]

@@nathanaeljoseph2226 its progress, just in the wrong direction. We are incapable of managing effectively unless it's for money only it seems

[@shifty1927]

My county flag is just a picture of a tobacco leaf ...pretty wild, not a lot of tobacco farms left here in Southern Maryland.

[@TylerBradley7]

not alot of anything good left in maryland.

[@PapaJosh111]

The gangs are pretty good in Maryland

[@TylerBradley7]

@@PapaJosh111 true

[@shifty1927]

@@PapaJosh111 gangs? Please inform me . Idk about any gangs

[@crashalarm3283]

Your county has a flag? I don’t even know if mine does. I’ll have to google it now.

[@shaylinmonk9208]

Third of a century? Just say 30 years. They just trying to make it sound long as possible

[@_Smarf_]

That's so nitpicky. 🤣😂 Of all the things to get upset about, it's not the abuses of slaves but length of time descriptors.

[@soulBain25]

@@_Smarf_ who said he was upset? Can't you comment on a video with having an emotional engagement then ? And to be fair the language they choose to use in this video is a blaming leftie tone like the uk and usa are the only people to make money from slaves, as if we invented it or something.

[@_Smarf_]

@@soulBain25 "leftie tone" or accurate description of history through the lens of a person living in 2020. Your bias is showing. Also, whataboutism, 'other countries had slave, so it was ok that my ancestors had slaves' is the definition of a facile argument. This is a 8 minute history lesson that seems to hurt a lot of right-wingers feelings. History is brutal, not convenient.

[@soulBain25]

@@_Smarf_ 😂triggerd, your bias is showing 🤣 yes a leftie tone and you're bias is showing as it was you that jumped on a harmless comment you silly leftie. Yes every country is guilty of slavery, that is a fact you can read it in your "history books" and it the language and tone used that solely puts blame on the west where as in fact that would be historically inaccurate, so not much of a history lesson really, more an interpretation of history shown through a warped lense.

[@kanavkohli794]

@@soulBain25 ​ and here we see a leftie in his natural habitat, getting triggered and melting like a snowflake....Nice Catch bro!!

[@Jack__Reaper]

You should go to China next and do a show on their treatment of muslims and factory conditions.

[@elnorton7113]

You learn everything from western media which justified their government invasion to middle east, Africa.

[@PurplePanda1233]

@@elnorton7113 China is invading Africa actually

[@CarbLoaders]

Glad you mention the ongoing CHINA GENOCIDE of the Uyghur muslims although I don't think they will report about that. Perhaps, vice can report on another topic which killed as many, if not more women and children. It's the guy that bom bed 7 countries and got the peace price. Hmmm.....forgot the narcist name, you know it!

[@nathanaeljoseph2226]

@@CarbLoaders is the answer correct for 500 “Obama”

[@adityas136]

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[@GRH_Roadhouse]

Not a lot of comments right now gonna come back later Roadhouse

[@criseriksonB0121]

😂😂😂

[@WhyAlwaysMeOfficial]

ikr

[@tylerhackner9731]

Roadhouse

[@calviniscool]

Lol shuduuuuup 😂

[@deadagain5291]

Roadhouse

[@ASwagPecan]

Gonna be smoking on my cigar with an extra big grin tonight.

[@alexanderdietzel207]

I Rolled a cigar out of shitgrown tabacco. .. kinda worked out;D

[@guitar_and_weed]

@@jadonmatthias463 why do people make choises.

[@splash4000able]

I mean I guess that’s the same thing you can say about Nike all the people that help build their shoes should be remembered to then

[@menshevikbear176]

@@msdaus14 their still hard working people

[@dagzey]

@anon anon ah stop haha

[@emmanuelwil-jeff]

that'd modern day slavery not past slavery idk if vice will make a mini series on that but it's to be expected if it fit's their narrative

[@PaulyJayNBC]

Bet the chick talking is wearing some crispy clean air force 1s

[@PaulyJayNBC]

@@msdaus14 the probably run for about 3 to 5 years, then they find the nearest bridge and jump

[@JensiT1]

Wait till she discovers how her clothes are made

[@shahedmarleen8757]

Vice doing what they do best *Teach us what our books and schools didn't*

[@enissay9950]

Amazing series. Keep it up

[@mrcool2107]

Worst

[@talitam.8414]

So informative and eye opening, thank you.

[@useyourbrain-vm8li]

So who’s gonna tell her that Africans sold their fellow brothers to the traders?

[@illuminoid33]

Yeah we already know that

[@SkeeDaGreat]

Under what circumstances? Did they have much of a choice? Irresponsible statement to make without context

[@suntat511]

@@SkeeDaGreatsadly they did have a choice. They sold their brothers and the Europeans used them as slaves. Money hungry people are at fault. No matter their race.

[@SkeeDaGreat]

@suntat511 yeah, ok. You conclude whatever you'd like. I highly doubt it was that simple, I know of way too much documented history proving otherwise. As you were.

[@suntat511]

@@SkeeDaGreat you doubt it? And you know it? So what now? You can look it up.

[@kingcuan5261]

This series should be called “guilt trip”

[@dirrrrr82]

Yea funny how factual history doesn't make me feel any guilt... naturally

[@starcityrc3298]

I won't apologize for creating the Modern World

[@pjacobsen1000]

It is said in the video that slave traders went into West Africa to abduct locals for slavery. But to send teams of English/Scottish people into an area they are not familiar with to abduct people seems both dangerous, complicated and ineffective. In my understanding, the traders instead told leaders of the coastal towns that they were interested in buying slaves and then let the locals do the abductions, lock the abductees up and wait for the traders to show up. This also made the locals on the coasts business partners, rather than simply bystanders. It also helped local leaders gain power through diluting enemy states of their young men/warriors. It's a bit like Rhino horns. You don't have Chinese people going into Tanzania to kill Rhinos. Instead they tell locals they're interested in buying rhino horns and let local poachers do the shooting.

[@mikhelBrown]

As appalling as it sounds, you're very right... It takes two to tango.. The British took advantage of the constant ethnic tensions between the locals and sometimes even went further to spread false rumors about opposing tribes to spark wars which resulted in more slaves in the form of POWs. Disgusting and less bright African leaders aided and abetted this monstrous crime against their fellow Black africans. That's why it's difficult to gather enough support when it comes to the trans-atlantic slave trade.

[@eastcoastenergy]

You are absolutely correct. African tribes became wealthy from selling off tribesmen they did not like for slaves to Europeans.

[@yonapops8062]

😂

[@nooffence7670]

10p percent right I'm glad you can see through this rubbish and propaganda

[@NLT-pm4sq]

Shipbuilding was a much more influential trade that built Glasgow

[@fkininmonth]

And what do you think they were shipping?

[@NLT-pm4sq]

@@fkininmonth The ships they were building were for all sorts of purposes, military, freight, and barges used on rivers all over the UK. And they were selling these ships to every nation in the world.

[@jonathanjohnson9611]

@@fkininmonth Don’t mind him. He’s purposely being obtuse.

[@barnibussnaples6561]

@@fkininmonth everything. Hence the word shipping.

[@everythingallin4905]

There is a disturbing history behind almost every product.

[@sydlawson3181]

Well we're a disturbing animal

[@ehiggins360]

Yeah, the history of our world is pretty traumatic.

[@itheuserfirst3186]

That's because nature is amoral. When human morals are applied to the history of existence, then everything seems traumatic. Life on earth will always be in conflict with ever shifting human morality. The further we remove ourselves from nature, the more fragile we become. There will never be a zero cost to living. The laws of physics don't allow it; yet our minds want it.

[@gawithhoggarth]

Thanks. I am researching a book on the history of tobacco and the connection with England and then Kendal, where our small factory is. Glasgow tobacco lords will form a chapter as well as the slave trade connections. It is important for history and our future that all sides are covered, the good and the bad.

[@overland3962]

A good video, can’t wait to watch the next one...

[@MindsetHalo]

Nice joke

[@lovelybitofbugle219]

😄🤣🤣

[@pinnedcomment8614]

I just found out Red Sour Patch Kids are the exact same candy as Swedish Fish, just with some sour sugar sprinkled on them. What

[@rafaelcastellon7013]

No way man!

[@wdsftygt]

Do they go up you th e same way up you?

[@Abel_la_Abel]

*The FBI wants to know your location*

[@valley2thebay319]

@@Abel_la_Abel 💀

[@eduardogalindo5364]

Don't forget the relationship between slave and Egypt and Spanier in Latin America and Mexico.And the current slave problem in the middle.

[@mrsapplez2007]

I AGREE

[@davidbridge5652]

Wow wow wow, that doesn't fit the current narrative

[@eduardogalindo5364]

Well they're talking about rich powerful people who took advantage of slaves & it made money off of them so I don't see the difference here what I said earlier.

[@blznft9513]

Or America's for profit prison system which has people of color mostly doing harsh labour work for carrying small amounts of drugs. Modern day slavery

[@eduardogalindo5364]

@@blznft9513 That's very true very true i hope they make a episode dedicated to that.

[@crazy8sdrums]

When will Vice discuss the many millions of slaves currently held in China? Can't have them jumping off the factory roof to their deaths so they built nets to catch them...those slaves.

[@powerfulconfusion4817]

im glad i kicked the habit of smoking :)

[@Rxz5526]

You’ll never see Vice mention Europeans in a positive light and you’ll never see them mention a poc negatively

[@natudavis8092]

That's because nothing positive was happening...

[@Rxz5526]

Natu Davis that’s why you’re typing in English on a smartphone via the internet. Wonder where all that came from

[@natudavis8092]

@@Rxz5526 And?...

[@Panzottero]

@@natudavis8092 sure, like the invention of cars, phones, and 90% of every technology you use today, sure, nothing positive, not the best poets of human history, the best philosophers, the best artisans, the best architects, sure, nothing good came from europe

[@natudavis8092]

@@Rxz5526 The smartphones come from natural resources found in the Congo and central Africa: cobalt, tin, tungsten and tantalum...But I'm sure you knew this little detail. Over 80% the world's electronics are harvested material out of central Africa. But I'm sure you knew this....

[@frenchfrench4514]

About time we knocked everything down. Start again, blank canvas, start with the pyramids and we'll work our way up to Glasgow and finish there, meet you in Egypt.

[@nparekh79]

British and American Tobacco manufacturers have formed some association to protect their interests in Africa too. In countries like Nigeria, you will find cigarettes and tobacco products in the smallest villages whereas it is difficult to find even basic goods like milk and milk products in such places.

[@phantomlordNL]

Hey it's the girl who keeps making videos about the UK!

[@MrTicTics]

Genuinely interested in all the people disliking this. The video itself is well made and historically accurate so it leaves me thinking, are they unhappy with the fact that this topic is even being discussed or something? Don't wanna be calling the dislikers racist but I can't help but think that must be the only reason they actually went so far as to hit dislike. Vice can release some bad content at times but this doesn't fall under that category.

[@FrankJeeves]

I think it's because it focuses on European. And I doubt they're going to balance it out by also discussing the African slave trade by African tribes and the African slave trade by Arabs and that's leave audiences with the impression that the only people who've ever profited off of African slaves are Europeans

[@minmax5]

Don't worry bro, the dislikers are mostly racist.

[@jhunt5578]

It's a strange thing we have in the UK where empire is not spoken about, its not even on the curriculum at school. For some reason people feel personally attacked by the facts of our history when its brought up. It's fascinating seeing the reactions. There are people in the comments posting 'two wrongs make a right fallacies' about the Arabic African slave trade as if it somehow justifies the European one. Both were bad.

[@andrewjones575]

AS with a previous Vice video by the same presenter, it says that slaves were kidnapped by Europeans. They were actually already long-enslaved by fellow Africans, who sold them to Europeans.

[@andrewjones575]

@@jhunt5578 The British Empire is taught in many UK schools.

[@fredk6992]

I love how she acts that wearing tartan and being a caddy was the worst part about slavery 😭

[@julianshepherd2038]

It demonstrates the Scottishness you clown

[@AAR0NWE1R]

I think she was highlighting the audacity of dressing someone up in special Tartan clothing to signify that person's owner's wealth

[@Thrill_Hou]

It was a way of de-Africanising their slaves.

[@notme4740]

Watching this as I smoke a cigarette

[@raffaelemarre2013]

An episode about the colonial empire of Oman Sultan in east africa no?

[@raffaelemarre2013]

@Sejr is not whataboutism, is a response to vice cherry picking

[@raffaelemarre2013]

@Sejr I find it hard for you to fail to understand what I am saying

[@raffaelemarre2013]

@Sejr beware, you're shitting out of the potty

[@CaptainHaddocck]

Must be hard being a struggling POC living in the shade and jealously of the glorious European civilisation

[@sonnymp1337]

European were the best for at least 500 years, suck it up :)

[@TheBigKimJong]

Anybody else notice how much of this story just didn’t make logical sense?

[@Mr_Rabbit]

as long as she can blame white poeple it doesnt matter to her if it doesnt make sense

[@TheBigKimJong]

@@Mr_Rabbit agreed. It just was strange that there’s 40 million dollars of tobacco being traded and 5 years later these same merchants are 1.3 million in debt? Her explanation: tobacco was a big deal, until it wasn’t anymore? How fucking retarded do you think we are? Smfh

[@pjacobsen1000]

If the average lifespan of slaves in those Scottish plantations was only 7 years, that must mean that the extra labor you could squeeze out of the slaves in that timespan would have been worth more than the cost of buying new slaves. In turn, this must mean that slaves would have been relatively cheap. But in other parts of America, slave owners actively got slaves to produce children, because even with the cost of bringing them up, it was considered cheaper than buying new slaves. That seems to present a contradiction. Can anyone enlighten me on this?

[@nickolasfredrickson9598]

Did she really just try to make 40 years sound longer by saying a third of a century LMAO

[@CarbLoaders]

Remember kids, looking at history through the lens of today is like looking at train travel back in 1700's and being outraged by saying "they burned coal? Why didn't they just take the jumbo jet"?

[@xDRAGONSHAGGERx]

😂 Those dumbasses

[@dangerislander]

Oh but never forget 9/11 aye?

[@kingofthebeast4024]

You’re seriously defending slavery?

[@judassss]

Great series! Keep making them please!

[@mrcool2107]

Worst series. More like anglo phobias

[@harryzhang1]

Great presentation!

[@Lou13Cyf3r]

.....gotta love how VICE almost always ends everything and anything with a connection to slavery.

[@yadavaadityanandlal]

I know its hard to digest these facts as your ancestors were monsters in human skin what they did to others is more shocking and horrific than fiction but thus was the reality and if you cant acknowledge the historical wrong doings atleast dont disrespect the dead. Hope you learn your history and heal together rather than stay ignorant.

[@nikonice7255]

the slaves weren't kidnapped - they were sold to Americans by locals as well as Arab slave traders, I'm not sure what the point of leaving that out was?

[@TheDexsword]

??? and how do that locals and arab slave trader u say get those slave????

[@nikonice7255]

@@TheDexsword they were kidnapped of course, her choice of words is what I'm calling out - Americans and Western Europeans did not kidnap them

[@nikonice7255]

@jet black the point is, if you’re going to report on history don’t skip the details. It all comes down to human greed, West Africans we’re willing to sell their own kind and Lord knows what awaited them at the other side of the ocean at the time. On both sides it’s human greed brother, can’t ignore it

[@nikonice7255]

@jet black at the end of the day brother, Im Serbian - my history has nothing to do with Western European or African but I just like to see detailed reporting. Peace be with you.

[@kayenjambre7886]

Legends say she's still walking

[@shuttles69]

Love your vids, keep it up

[@The123dannyd]

Did the presenter learn to walk 5 minutes before this was shot?

[@CarbLoaders]

Yes she admired the great city buildings and churches before she began the verbal poop storm of a report. Amazing, she was jurnolisming all over the place!

[@M.M0709]

African history is more than just slavery and European colonialism. This series is just depressing. It's like these "edgy media" platforms only see Africans as the descendants of enslaved people. Africa is huge, diverse and has a rich history. When will they ever focus on something positively African?

[@pangajackterhor]

You want rider and colorful rainbows plenty of documentaries and independent mini documentaries done already. This is about the bullshit that you don't really see but might just read.. most of US and white post colonialists keep their people numb and dumb about their past.

[@safeasmush]

What do you call a man with a cat on his head? Claude

[@_barncat]

Boo

[@00loudog]

My husbands name is claude

[@richduquette9874]

You may have to spell it C-L-A-W-E-D for the KZbin audience to get it.

[@snifey7694]

@@00loudog is he a mute?

[@grantzax]

Interesting how journalists never ever look closely at those who sold their very own people into slavery. The buyer is always under examination, but for some inexplicable reason, the sellers from various countries always get a free pass.

[@specter1890]

This girl consistently cherrypicks historical facts for her bias against the West.

[@Tlahuiltezcatl]

Oh shut up.

[@Tlahuiltezcatl]

Dont be mad ur ancestors arent innocent.

[@Vpm8481]

Still true though

[@LondonPestControl]

The dark relationship between vice and its obsession with race baiting

[@minmax5]

How is this "race baiting"?

[@1991enduro]

Defo race baiting as vice is very left sided

[@Whitepandemic]

@@minmax5 bc all they talk is EU is the source of all evil. when it wasnt, they were just like any other empire

[@wigsmey4462]

How about telling history? If it makes you uncomfortable to hear true history that’s too bad. Facts don’t care about your feelings.

[@minmax5]

@@Whitepandemic "all they talk is EU is the source of all evil" Prove this please.

[@gigalulmansur]

Why the dislikes? Some people don't like hearing about their countries origins?

[@ReclusiveEagle]

White people who don't want to acknowledge racism and racial inequality is a reality in 2020

[@taiefmiah]

Have you see the Sainsbury's Christmas advertisement.

[@mbtravel7294]

Facts 💯

[@andrewjones575]

@@ReclusiveEagle This video isn't about the present day.

[@chaunceyclark1510]

my battery 1% me: listens to this my battery: i’ll wait

[@excalibur6159]

This series is so informative and well researched...

[@MrRobertFarr]

You can't, judge the past by using the morals of today. Really. You, can't suggest Slavery was a crime. British people also lived in fear of being taken as slaves and employed The Royal Navy to prevent that happening. But it still happened. Slaving ships visited Britain, from North Africa, enslaving The British. Slavery was legal, and it's likely to be legal still in some places. Selling tea, is no better than selling opium. Use, of tea, creates manic behaviour and can lead to joint problems. Relax? Research various commodities, and trade in all commodities, with your eyes open. Ignore trade unions and try to avoid taxes. Consumers, who lack self control are the criminals. There's no such thing as addiction. Addicts, are greedy. Addicts can't blame their greed and stupid behaviour on certain products. Getting taken, as a slave is a risk for everyone. Even today. If a customer is ignorant and greedy. If they're immoral and did not invest in security. Let them suffer? If, families, can't be bothered to look after their children. Of course the children will suffer. If adults, are not careful what they buy and how they behave they might end up addicted to some horrible substance. But if, they have any sense. When, they start committing crimes to feed their addiction. Or, when their family is starting to become neglected and suffering. They're going, to change their behaviour. It's a wide World and, a good life is available to folks who get their business in order. It's not the fault of The British that our trade routes are difficult to block and, it's not a crime to try to keep trade routes open.

[@Hapkumdo]

Did slavery not have something to do with the tobacco trade? I'm not sure, since it isn't mentioned in the video.

[@snifey7694]

Smoke some tobacco and then all of the sudden you became el presidente

[@brylan3237]

Why are there CCTV cameras everywhere?

[@CheekyMonkey888]

because the Scots are now slaves to the globalist elites what goes around comes around

[@eastcoastenergy]

Could you please do a video like this on African tribes becoming wealthy from selling off tribesmen they did not like for slaves. Thank you in advance.

[@rzxkp7none275]

I never knew about the Scottish. Good video. Very educational.

[@jbreezy6784]

Informative

[@garuna5688]

Imagine how sad your life must be to dislike something just cause it mentions slavery.

[@adamwyker4800]

Yeah, can you imagine how pathetic a person must be for them to be hyper-focused on black slavery in America in 2020? The myopic obsession is pure weakness.

[@garuna5688]

@@adamwyker4800 See? Imagine being this loser.

[@PhillieDXO]

@@adamwyker4800 no one is hyper focused on anything, calm down. And please dont forget that segregation ended only 74 years ago.

[@yungwallzy]

there are some points she didnt brought up that missleads her narratives slavery is a complex subject

[@DeMonSpencer]

Slave owners here in America tried to strip their slaves of all cultural heritage from Africa. They were told their music was evil, the way they danced was evil, their religion was evil, and their dark skin was a symbol of evil. That kind of thinking still influences a part of the African American population today. Black Christians believe black music is evil and you can't be a Christian unless you stop listening to black music. I'll never understand how listening to a love song by Barry White is going to send someone to hell. Almost every popular musical genre created over the last century was all created by the offspring of slaves living in the American south. (Jazz, blues, rock, R&B, Soul, hip hop, etc.) so it's a big deal to get us to deny one of the biggest cultural gifts that seem to come naturally. It breaks my heart every time I hear "church folk" telling someone our music is devil music.

[@Wild_Turkey0352]

Those Scottish businessmen were really impressive. To put together that kind of network. Respect

[@benjaminhenry7593]

Im waiting fot the finale to this series in which they discuss how western white people were the first ones to outlaw slavery and voluntarily free all the slaves in their territories. Saudi Arabia didn't outlaw slavery till 1962 only after being pressured by great britain

[@steveymt1]

@@snailevangelist we condone there bullshit? Wtf

[@MUGENGaming]

Outlawing slavery isn’t much of an achievement when western white people created the worst form of it; being chattel slavery.

[@tariqbird8293]

Chattel slavery is a satanic practice

[@КонстантинИванов-д1д]

"Empires of Dirt, a show about Europeans getting rich at the expense of everyone else" Because outside of Europe they never had an empire and not a single person ever got rich at the expense of anyone else. :D

[@YarMoLight]

Ну Монголо-татары вроде не европейцы. Хотя по описанию подходит. Только у Европы это более успешно получается

[@YarMoLight]

@ric Gikonyo can you reply again but more clearly?

[@YarMoLight]

@ric Gikonyo ok then, I guess?

[@mrcool2107]

No doubt why Singapore is a dirt

[@solia8450]

Nice series.

[@funnytreeboy]

Love this series keep them coming !!

[@Siziusmopul]

Vice been dropping bangers recently

[@ajr4187]

i really wish yall would make these longer than 5mins.

[@jonnylong7927]

Let's all feel bad for things other people did a long time ago. But only if your white, and non jewish.

[@fredk6992]

I hope you'll name a street after the Chinese 4 year old that made your trousers

[@WonderingApes]

Somebody please let her know that Europe is a continent that hosts 44 countries out of which 12 had colonies: Belgium. United Kingdom. France. Germany. Italy. The Netherlands. Denmark Norway Spain Russia Portugal Calling the video as a coverage of how europeans got rich at the expense of others is wrong and proves how “well”researched is your project. By showing such a gross lack of consideration and having 2 thirds of Europe under the colonialist stereotype you insult the history of those who’s ancestors have lived for millennia as serfs

[@236Mars]

A great and informative video.

[@chubbygreyhound1198]

1:53 Interesting fact - Bunce island was named after the British Boxing pundit Steve Bunce. "Buncey" wasn't in fact born until 1962 but that's not important.

[@PinwheelNation]

I always question people's motives when they have such a viscerally angry reaction to factual information about their country's history. The dislikes are kind of illustrating this right now.

[@MUGENGaming]

Just the typical right wing SJWs.

[@GokuTheSuperSaiyan1]

So many snowflakes in these comment sections, they're like children.

[@grinchoi1]

What happened to the west African slaves in Glasgow? Did they move elsewhere? The reason why I'm asking is because I've been there at least 5 times and I hardly saw any black people there. In the US the families of former slaves settled and eventually became citizens and a huge reason for the country's prosperity.

[@sharathbhushi4903]

Keep up the good series...are always taught the wrong side of the history in our schools, as narrated by the British 😕

[@joedot343]

but you do realise this woman isn't a historian and has a very obvious idealogical bent

[@jjfr08]

🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@lucaskuyl823]

Where can i find the music used in this video?

[@fd2444]

Ah yes the kidnapped slaves story, totally werent sold off by african kings

[@sonnymp1337]

Thought the same😂 but here are enough sheep in comment section and people are dumb they take for granted everything a "authoritian" channel says

[@yungwallzy]

Kangz* not kings

[@MUGENGaming]

Yup. African Kings from enemy kingdoms. Your point?

[@kingofthebeast4024]

Some were kidnapped, most were indentured servants who expected to be returned to their home.

[@tray-oq1nj]

Kangz

[@avinaashashastry3910]

I forgot to like so many of these videos. I don't even remember how many I watched to get here

[@Patch4er]

Someone needs to go back 400 years and stop these naughty brits!

[@mrcool2107]

Someone needs to go back to history class and need to educate urself. Instead of being jelous of British empire

[@mrcool2107]

@ric Gikonyo British has done more good than bad . I mean how can 2nd most influential empire in history be bad

[@FranzBieberkopf]

"Tobacco was the new world's revenge against the old, along with syphilis and cheap cars"-JM Roberts, The Penguin History Of The World. This film is a strange mix of history and an attempt to make people feel guilty about things that happened between 200-300 years ago, and so had nothing to do with them (or their parents, grandparents, great or great grandparents). I don't believe in collective guilt, nor do I think I am responsible for something that happened over 200 years before I was born.

[@recnepselyp]

Cool! Now do the same thing, but for your native China! That would be awesome.

[@TeamOT]

I mean, can't you replace tobacco with basically any product and loosely copy paste this script on it?

[@itheuserfirst3186]

Yes, yes you can. It turns out, morality is subjective, and partial to moments in time. As humans, we want it to be a more permanent fixture, but humans are animals, and morality is an ever shifting scale of judgement. Overall, nature is amoral, and we are a part of that; which compklicates everything.

[@sharongillesp]

Excellent history lessons. Love the host:) Finally, the truth... after centuries of being lied to and facts totally ignored.

[@khaya-juniorsakawuli2581]

Where is Count Dankula at for this one?

[@lucian1607]

Thank you for creating this video!

[@mariarice4916]

these short so called 'documentaries' are a true example of extremely poor journalism.

[@joelgottfried5849]

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[@mariarice4916]

@@joelgottfried5849 !

[@sovietroll7880]

Love this series Vice. Keep em coming!!