Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
We invented your democracy - you're welcome.

Industrialisation also had no impact on the slave trade because slaves were only used in the colonies, which did not industrialise until much later.

Palastine is actually at least as much YOUR fault because the US funded the Jewish terrorists who forced out the British forces and then started a war against the Arabs.

Africa? Please, don't even start, the parts of Africa that really stink now were run by Belgium, we ran SA and Kenya as well as Zimbabwe - you guys invented Liberia because you hated black people.

India and Pakistan? The Pakistani's refused to live in a country not run by Muslims (they only accepted a multi-religious India under the British jackboot).

Internal British Government papers from the 20's predicted Indian Independence around 1960, as it was thought we would need 40 years to bed-in democracy, so we got started, created the Indian Parliament... then along came Ghandi to accelerate the timetable and it all went wrong.
But we made it actually include people that weren't the 1%. Sure, it took a while to include just about everybody but it was a good bit faster than over on that side of the pond.

Once industrialization hit, the most powerful people weren't the slave owners and they could actually listen to their conscience on that issue instead of stuffing their ears with money.

We may have done that but we didn't set up the entire situation by conquering some large chunk of the Middle East.

Mandela and Klerk saved South Africa from being a repeat of Liberia/preview of Zimbabwe, not some magic British voodoo influence.

They managed to live okay when they were ruled by the Sikhs. And when they were running the show under the Mughals, they did show a fair bit of religious tolerance.