@History__Speaks The notion that most of the world would be sympathetic is indisputably false. Most of the ppl killed in the 2008/14 Gaza wars were soldiers, the response of the US and other western countries was entirely the same. The only difference really with the current war is scale.
@martinshawx For example:
UN is biased https://t.co/fVCLazPc0n
Establishing deterrence https://t.co/s5vGmXl78q
etc. The 1200 death toll for Oct 7 itself makes no such distinction
@martinshawx Im not sure anticivilian violence generates a worse response per se. Most deaths in 2009/14 were soldiers, but the conceptualization of the war ie Israel has a right to defend itself and is justified disproportionately killing Palestinians was the same; only difference is scale
@Gaismair@Akshat0407 The British pushed hundreds of thousands of E Africans into forced labor of which over 100k died. They were not moral at all during the war
People in India look at me and can immediately tell I didn't grow up in India. Westernization changes everything about you, and almost everyone who grew up in the West is significantly Westernized.
That includes those British-Muslim Salafists.
This is such an absurd debate. I was born in the UK, have lived here my whole life, this is the only home I've ever known, but I'm not ethnically English, I'm Pakistani, my ethnicity is rooted in South East Asia, and I refuse to erase that fact from my identity. Nor should ethnically English people have to be forced by absurd political correctness to deny they have an ethnicity.
We're having to debate this as a nation, erase blatant facts in the process, because we've lost a sense of shared pride and belonging, we've lost the sense of a distinct and undeniable British culture.
@BillTheKid1603 Voting was kind of meaningless. I mean Indian nationalists at the time critiqued the British Raj as a โmini Tsarist despotismโ within the Empire.
The myth of Reconstruction as a reign of terror by ex-slaves stopped Haile Selassie from abolishing slavery in Ethiopia (as opposed to merely decreeing that everyone born after 1924 was free).
And his British advisors agreed!