The blame the british thread

[Tabell]

http://britishreparations.org/

People of the world, its time to get paid, lol

[Cassy]

How silly. I think the British will need to get theirs from Rome first.

[Banned]

How silly. I think the British will need to get theirs from Rome first.

What the heck?Do ya have any idea how great Roman culture was and how useful it proved to be while it flourished in Britain?

Disgusting...

[Reidy]

What the heck?Do ya have any idea how great Roman culture was and how useful it proved to be while it flourished in Britain?

Disgusting...

Hehe.

"What the heck?Do ya have any idea how great British culture was and how useful it proved to be while it flourished in India/Australia/Africa/the Middle East/America?"

Seriously, don't use that argument, because it is totally worthless and bears no meaning. It can be applied to almost all nations that have colonized any bit of land. Ever.

[Banned]

Hehe.

"What the heck?Do ya have any idea how great British culture was and how useful it proved to be while it flourished in India/Australia/Africa/the Middle East/America?"

Seriously, don't use that argument, because it is totally worthless and bears no meaning. It can be applied to almost all nations that have colonized any bit of land. Ever.

I never protested the British stay in those countries.Even I feel it was good.If Britain had not conquered much of Asia and Africa,then most obviously the countries in these continents would remain backward socially as well as politically.Yes,they practised racial discrimination and slavery plus a few other atrocities about which nearly everybody knows,but think about the ways it influenced those already slummy and backward countries where poverty walked every street and people had nothing to eat and even clothe themselves.British rule gave them what they couldn't achieve in even a thousand years.The first thing they introduced was a planned system of government which gets reflected today in the countries which were conquered by Britain.A very well managed system of administration was another thing they gave start to.And who is here to argue over that???!!
Yet another advantage of British rule...industrial revolution.We all know how it influenced those petty countries with no thought of what actually is a printing press even after 600 years of its discovery.Factories....improved farming....and what else did ya want in there??
Remember,people...there are two sides of a coin...the good and the bad.And I see the good side more prominent in case of British rule.

Talking about the Roman rule in Britain...well what was its side effect?I personally feel we gave a lot to them...including bloodshed involving gladiatorial combats.And I am damn sure they had rejoices during the games.But again,see the bold text above...there were some unfortunate incidents or rather say accidents instead which were invoked during the Roman rule in Britain...due to gladiatorial combats,some lack of attention towards public health causing eruption of diseases making life hectic for the citizens,corruption,etc.But these things are very common even today in this world and we hardly talk very seriously about these....kinda have become everyday life problems.So,the point is blaming us(the Romans) for such things is quite vague IMO.Why don't you praise us for the rights we did in Britain and why do most people just count the wrongs,overshadowing the glory of all good achievements

"Roads, Reg!"... the aqueduct fell into disuse for centuries after the Romans left and was effectively reinvented, not rediscovered.

huh???
Nobody would go that far.Have ya heard about 'via appia' constructed by the Romans?It's used even today after 2000 years of its construction.Though,we have got the cobblestones removed by the government here(due to the reason some empty-headed give-"they were good for carts but aren't for cars and scooters"),the Roman roads throughout Europe still remain of great use.

[Cassy]

What the heck?Do ya have any idea how great Roman culture was and how useful it proved to be while it flourished in Britain?

Disgusting...

Oh I'm sure.

They did enslave Britons though. Rape Boudicca's child daughters. That kind of thing.

why bother use the term celts/germanic people why not go the whole hog and just say humans have done bad things in the past so we cant blame the humans who do bad things now

I am saying that all cultures have done bad things, and it's ludicrous to say otherwise. Personally I don't see the relationship between that fact and justice, however.

[removeduser_426582376423734]

Oh I'm sure.

They did enslave Britons though. Rape Boudicca's child daughters. That kind of thing.

And, yet, without this what would we be today? Still barbarians? Tribal?

History has shown that places not taken over by Rome, at least in Europe, had been inunified. The states of Prussia were the unhabitable Germania. The several small states in the East, unconquered by Rome. The Americans were tribal peoples before civilized Spaniards/Portugeuse(ans?).

[Cassy]

And, yet, without this what would we be today? Still barbarians? Tribal?

History has shown that places not taken over by Rome, at least in Europe, had been inunified. The states of Prussia were the unhabitable Germania. The several small states in the East, unconquered by Rome. The Americans were tribal peoples before civilized Spaniards/Portugeuse(ans?).

What about Scandinavia? The Turks? The fact that modern unified western European states have more to do with the Franks than they do with the Romans? Silly idea, in my opinion.

[Perikles]

And what about the French? the Belgians? the Germans? The Turks? The Dutch?

I agree, How Silly. Why don't we just blame the British for everything bad?

[Erik]

And what about the French? the Belgians? the Germans? The Turks? The Dutch?

I agree.
I am Dutch and I demand my money!

The British Empire took over our lucrative 17th century businesses.
Because of them we are no longer the wealthiest country in the world.
Give us back our colonies!!!

[Centurion-Lucius-Vorenus]

And what about the French? the Belgians? the Germans? The Turks? The Dutch?

I agree, How Silly. Why don't we just blame the British for everything bad?

Yeah, This is kinda Dumb. Considering virtually every nation has done something to another nation that they should pay reparations for.

[powerpuff boys]

3trillion?? wow thats alot of money.

[Cassy]

I have never read a funnier allegation. Observe!

"Bad Inventions. Machine guns, slums, prisons, child labor, bad hygiene, the Black Plague, concentration camps, you name it. If it hurts people, the British probably came up with it."

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, in the 14th Century the British successfully engineered bubonic plague. It's in 'the facts' section of the site. So it must be true!

[Aristophanes]

This must be satire so exquisitely crafted that if flies just below our radar!!!

Advance ye notion-skewering comic writers, rise up and seize your well-deserved laurels!

*raises left hand, fist clenched, in silent salute to the fountainhead of genius*[and incense kindled at the muse's flame]

[Farnan]

I have never read a funnier allegation. Observe!

"Bad Inventions. Machine guns, slums, prisons, child labor, bad hygiene, the Black Plague, concentration camps, you name it. If it hurts people, the British probably came up with it."

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, in the 14th Century the British successfully engineered bubonic plague. It's in 'the facts' section of the site. So it must be true!

Umm... The Machine gun was invented in the US...

Also, I demand a good share of that reperations money. Irish and French Acadian Ancestors here. Just kidding, in all honesty this is rediculous.

[Stalins Ghost]

Obviously they fail to notice Britain lost its Empire, and thus, its vast sources of wealth as a direct result of various peoples around the world. I demand that those nations give us money so we can pay them back!

I'm almost tempted to give a serious "Errrr... well by your reckoning <insert any nation here> owes X amount of $." But the sheer hypocrisy of their statements fails to get me to answer seriously

[Carach]

an idiotic 'coalition'

i guess germany's gonna be paying trilliongs of euros for the 2 world wars, the 3 wars of unification and so on?

austria's gonna pay for the balkans issues...

russias gonna pay for the 25million odd exterminated under stalin? what about those kept behind the iron curtain? invasion of findland (twice?) etc etc

Spain's gonna pay south america for what it did there? slavery etc?

Same with portugal

France? they gonna pay the whole of europe for god knows how many years of war ...

Turkey for their part in ww1?

the list goes on... my point is that this is insane

[Cassy]

I've e-mailed them about the black death thing. That needs clarification.

[Freddie]

We are a global network of citizens who have suffered injuries at the hands of the British Empire over the last five hundred years. We've banded together to ask the United Kingdom to compensate the world for all the damage they've done.

What an idiot. The British haven't even been around for that amount time so how the hell do they expect us to pay for incidents that took place BEFORE the British Empire was around.

[Tabell]

as well as this, the union jack on his commercial is wrong. In addition, the site seems to be squarely aimed at the english, rather than british, for 'wrongdoing', considering it mentions the welsh, irish and scots as among the opressed despite the fact theyre the british too. Yet another case of ignorance on who the british are.