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Uncancelled History with Douglas Murray - Colonialism
- Uncancelled History with Douglas Murray | EP. 02 Colonialism
- Bruce Gilley joins Douglas Murray on this episode to discuss one of the biggest criticisms of the west – Colonialism.
- Colonialism (Imperialism): One group of people with an established form of government, travels to a part of the world where their government doesn’t currently rule and rules there.
- All of world history is a history of colonialism
- Every group up until very recently were racist.
- Cherokee were racist against other Indians
- Banto were racist were against all over South African tribes when they conquered them
- Racism rises from evolutionary needs, group solidarity.
- Racism is the standard default position for most people.
- The only anti-racists in the whole world at the time were the Europeans
- They went abroad and thought these other people deserve freedoms, free from slavery, development, civilized.
- Self-governing, history, arts, culture
- Civilization raises those that you conquer from the level of subhuman to being human.
- Why would you civilize farm animals?
- You see them as equals
- Civilianization superiority
- Better technology, education, more rights, urban development, transportation, science, medical, health care
- Knowledge-based, as it was a civilization that had records, is hugely biased towards the European colonial experience and it since it comes with a self-critical tradition, a lot of that knowledge is critical.
- The idea that these “unconquered lands” were the garden of Eden are false.
- Saving Languages
- Togo rescued by the Germans
- British saving Indian heritage and language
- Almost all the places that were colonized were already under alien rule
- British Empire vs Islamic caliphate slave empire
- De-colonizers handed over power to madmen
- Youtube comment: As a Nigerian, my opinion on colonialism will be more nuanced than that of most westerners. On one hand, it was brutal in some ways but on the other it did play a huge role in bringing much of Africa into the modern age via introduction of modern tech, medicine, western education, and nation building.
- “Also, one major good it did was abolish slavery. I cannot be more thankful for the British using their naval power and economic might to suppress the slave trade in Africa. Oh, I know they partook in it for a time, themselves, but it existed here long before whites ever came to Africa. Even my own ancestors of the Edo kingdom were slavers. What makes the British different is that unlike other regional African and Arab powers, they had the cultural & religious framework, wisdom, humanity and courage to actually stop the evil of slavery even at huge cost to their economy. God bless them.”
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Giving Thanks for Settler Colonialism | Michael Knowles LIVE at Vanderbilt University
- How a blind person picked up poop in a bag from their dog, left it on a stoop before going in because she couldn’t find a trash can, and the media had a headline calling it a racial crime thinking it was the KKK or something
- U.S & Israel are settler-colonial nation
- All nations were established by settler and colonizers
- 1980: US Supreme Court rules US Government had illegal taken the Blackhill of South Dakota (Site of Mount Rushmore) from the Lakota people ^a0ada9
- US ordered to pay $106 million
- 1868: Treaty of Fort Laramie
- Ending Red Clouds War setting the land apart
- 6 years later: General Custard entered the Black Hills found gold; settlers came on the news of gold
- Military tried to initially stop the settlers and honor the treaty; but they kept coming
- President Grant told Military to stand down
- US decided best to buy the land from Lakota; negotiations broke down
- General Custard led a charge and failed; defeated at Little Big Horn
- US quickly defeated the Lakota
- Lakota refused to surrender; but didn’t have means to survive; stripped of horses and weapons
- 1876: Congress made aid to Lakota people contingent on them seeding the land to the US
- Some agreed but not enough to satisfy the treaty
- The court DID NOT say to give the land back.
- Impracticable
- .25 million Americans lived on the land
- Lakota people did NOT accept the Courts decision
- Blood money for stolen land
- 2011: Settlement valued at 1 Billion; Lakota still would not accept it
- Lakota did not magically sprout out of the Blackhills of the Dakotas
- The right of conquest has been a universally recognized principle of policies until 70 years ago when liberal utopians pretended that a couple UN declarations could fundamentally change politics and human nature and freeze history in place.
- We should not disavow our political ancestors like you wouldn’t your family ancestors
- Great men that didn’t become wealthy for their troubles
- Christopher Columbus
- Never paid what he was owed by Spanish crown; was accused of bogus crimes to get out of paying
- Wanted to fund a crusade to retake the holy land
- Pilgrams
- Gave up two lives of comfort; Liden in Netherlands and England
- George Washington; lost half his net worth
- John Adams; major financial problems throughout war
- Thomas Jefferson died a debtor due to public service
- The men that the left call thieves and plunders are all motivated by higher ideals
- Christopher Columbus
- 5 Years before the supposedly evil colonizer Christopher Columbus arrived; the Aztecs sacrificed 80,000+ at Temple over course of 4 days
- Cortez conquered the Aztecs, stopped the demon worship and the sacrifices; introduced Christianity
- Unlike many other religions, Christianity has almost never spread by the sword (Except Charlemagne & Spain) — Conversions must be made freely
- Christian’s treating conquered people well, demanded by the Pope to Conquistadors
- West has been uniquely innocent compared to other conquers.
- Would you rather be conquested by the West or Aztecs? West or ISIS?
- If you believe the Western type of conquest are bad, wait until you see all the other types of conquests
- Someday somebody is going to correct our errors as well and we should hope for the same grace that we might afford to our forebearers.
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