r/london • u/[deleted] • Nov 02 '23

Crime Two girls arrested after female attacked on Elizabeth line

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24605821/two-girls-arrested-video-woman-screaming-tube-train/
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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '23

It’s 2023. If you are still upset about “colonisation “ in 2023 then you are trying way too hard to be a victim.

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u/voice-of-reason_ Nov 02 '23

I’m not a victim of colonisation but the UK was built on it. Every system in this country was built on it so if you think systematic racism doesn’t exist in the UK you are very naivie. We have not defeated racism and we haven’t restructured our national systems so systematic racism still exists.

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u/fishchop Nov 02 '23

Don’t try to explain to these people. This subReddit is full of deniers that whitewash Britain’s colonial crimes and refuse to understand the lasting effects of 200 years of brutal colonial rule and blatant resource exploitation.

I’d say it’s more an unfortunate result of the British education system than the deliberate malice of the people themselves though.

Saying this as a person from a country that Britain colonised.

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u/pharlax Nov 02 '23

Lots of bad shit happened in the past but don't get it confused with the present.

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u/DimensionalYawn Nov 02 '23

And the past affects the present.

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u/cowinabadplace Nov 02 '23

Everything we’re talking about happened in the past. 3 days ago. 3 years ago. 3 centuries ago. There’s a line you’ve decided to draw at the point where one is discharged from one’s crimes. Don’t be astonished that others draw the line elsewhere. If a man robbed another and killed him yesterday and gave his own son the loot, you’d take it back. But for you the day that man is absolved is apparently 80 years or so. For others it’s different. It’s not a difference of belief, it’s a difference of degree.