The British Empire: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Details of The World's Largest Empire 

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🙄 British Empire 👉 was a world 🌍 biggest looters and thief 💥 💯 🙄 British Empire was a world 🌍 killer evil Empire 💥

🙄 British Empire 👉 was looting the Hindustan 😡😡😡😡😡😡 👉 Trillion's of dollars 💥💥💥💯

Not watching this! Shame on you. Brextits.

And now look at the state of the UK. Lmao, a fate well deserved.

@@moseyburns1614 It's better than 99% of countries today? Nothings happened. The UK today is much better than in the 19th and 18th centuries

@@moseyburns1614 yes the pariah of europe

@@ursodermatt8809 thats literally how the UK has rolled for about 700 years, hardly a change to the status quo

@@moseyburns1614 Jealous, eh?

Portugal and Spain were in on the Atlantic slave trade for there south American colonies before the northern parts of Europe got in on the business. Byt we just stepped ot up in scale and put are managerial know how into the trade to make more profit.

@@krtcampbell9007 Yeah, I read that after I posted, but I didn't have time to come back and edit my post.

They also don't like talking about how we started the "slave trade". It involved purchasing the slaves from Africans. The reason why no-one really gives a fuck about most of the negatives described in this video, like human suffering, is because it is part and parcel of history and the concept of a human civilisation. Yet people act like it's this demonic evil force that came out of nowhere and subjugated a fair a free society. It's hard to not roll my eyes at it.

Slavery is as old as written history. Unfortunately, it still exists today.

to be honest this video's was just simon shitting on the british empire in my opinion, half of what said in the video isn't even true he's a bloody lying revisionist.

Is it still the real deal or did 2008 end it?

​@@mrsentencename73342008 end it Britain hasn't been the same since.

@@lu544 With God complex and probably biggest rapist and killer in history.

@@Anonymous-cm8jy im sure he was spinning in his grave when when you wrote that.

Never met a British person thats been sorry about anything the British have done. Quite the opposite actually

Apologies are cheap

@@mccombe25 people like you forget that the ruling British exploited and abused their own people long before and during the empire. our ancestors pain and suffering was the motivation for the empire

Actually slavery was abolished in the 12th Century in England and Wales, which led to rullings regarding a need for postive law freeing slaves that had been brought to britain.

Another correction. Slavery was abolished in England and Wales by William the Conqueror.

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They ended all slave trading across oceans, not just the Atlantic, because that was all that was possible. Slavery was ended by the British, French and Americans around 1919. The only slave trades that continued after the British and French navies were the slave trade in China and north Africa/the middle East. With the fall of the Ottoman empire, and the collapse of Imperial China, slavery could be ended in the places the British and French could not previously get to as they were not capable of invading deep into the heartlands of continents (although they started to be able to do so in the 1890s with the scramble for Africa). The credit for ending the Chinese slave trade could go the Chinese Communist Party although in effect they just nationalised slave labour by giving themselves the monopoly on slave labour, such as with the slavery of the Uighers in Xinjiang concentration camps today.

Later they enslave indians

Ever been to the US? The wealthiest country ever and the levels of poverty across the US is shocking. You might not see it in Times Square, but you wouldn't have to go far.

All empires were like that. Look at the two remaining true empires , russias failing brutal one and the chinese ( tibet enslaved) one that is right now exterminating yughers.

That's because you're focusing only on urban centres, and in urban centres there's ALWAYS more people than jobs. It has nothing to do with how big the empire was. If you look instead at the people who had jobs, or better yet had businesses, or even those who worked the fields in the countryside, life in Britain was infinitely superior to life outside it, even though conditions and pay to us in the 21st century would still seem horrific. People around the world wanted British goods so factories which produced them had endless demand, therefore endless shifts for workers, workers who needed feeding by farmers who could provide food, who needed it transporting by people who ran transport businesses and so on and so on. The poor sods competing for work in the cities were the only ones out of luck, everybody else lived in far superior conditions compared to other countries

First of all poverty is everywhere. The level of poverty is different. Poverty in USA is wealthy compare to poverty I india

@@lewisbae1326 So is the cost of living in USA compared to India

That's hardly uniquely British. It's the oldest play in the Empire Playbook.

Still prevalent to this day. Used by politicians and others with power.

Divide and Rule by the British is a myth.

Youre correct Ive had the pleasure of visiting that exact island and site definitely North Carolina

Maybe it was really in South Carolina and that's why they've had so much trouble finding it? /s

@@INMATEofARKHAM nope, definitely in NC. The Croatoan tree was in Dare County, and the actual tribe lived near modern-day Cape Hatteras.

South Carolinian here. Yes, Roanoke was in NC, not SC. Set foot in Downtown Charleston and you'd realize there's no need to live anywhere else.

Don't worry. No one cares.

Resistence is futile

the trees start singing yankee doodle

Where the British Empire planted flags, great civilizations followed. America, India, Australia, and Canada eh!

@@madrabbit9007 iraque,iran,Palestine, Egypt, Syria and so on..

@@luislealsantos yeah, there are many hell holes as well where civilization didn’t stick due to the locals wanting to live in the dark ages. Look at the mess we Americans have left in Afghanistan. I cry watching the hoards of people trying to flee the cavemen.

There wasn't WMDs the Iraq war was propaganda!

Better the USA than China. I won't even mention Russia,pretenders to top spot as they are, a nation with the 5th largest economy in Europe and even a smaller economy than Texas.

However someone has to maintain the peace...

@@angloirishcad well if anything it shouldn't be the nation who is the biggest exporter of weapons and has the most nuclear powered arms than any other nation in the world

good on you for admitting that. However I was deeply skeptical at the time though. Despite repeated claims of WMD nothing was actually shown on TV or anywhere else for that matter. I still believe that the US had to be seen to do something after 9/11 and we were obliged to go along with them, it's as simple as that. Saddam Hussein was no real threat to us and weapons inspector Dr David Kelly was silenced before he could talk.

Take your "logic" and get outta here. :P

@@Archangelm127 agreed

@@Archangelm127 elaborate

Daryl Davis is an amazing person.

@@Crimelord43 It's a joke expression, commenting on how the most logical arguments often seem to be dismissed the most quickly in the public discourse.

*Brain Blaze Gotta keep up with the updates

Same problem here with the red stripe I thought I already watched it almost skipped over

I HATE red bordered thumbnails for the exact same reason.

Same here with the red stripe lol

Seems Simon's sponsors are becoming more comfortable with him being himself instead of just a buttery smooth voice.

Well NZ was first colonised by New South Wales, as a sub-colony of it, then later NZ was transferred to Britain as a colony after NSW had sorted out the treaty, or most of it to be fair.

There was no wholesale slaughter and famine in any places of the empire. They would only go to war if provoked or to destroy evil like the enslaving ashanti etc.

​@@dominicomucci3014people just like to blame us brits because it's easier than accountability. The reasons we did things are never brought up, neither is the fact the entire world as it stands now was shaped by us.

​@@seanlander9321 legally transferred to those who ran the who shebang. Sounds like an Australian mad they got bit on the ass by a spider today while taking a shit.

I don't think they can take credit for ending slavery in their own territory either. It's not an accident that both Acts of Parliament limiting or abolishing slavery (1807 & 1833) almost immediately followed large influxes of anti-slavery Irish MPs in the elections immediately following the 1800 act of union forced on Ireland and the 1829 Catholic Emancipation Act. The change in voting between earlier failed efforts to abolish slavery in the late 1700s almost exactly aligns with the addition of Irish MPs.

@@cros13 The addition of Irish MPs... and where were they added? That's right, to Britain. Thus, Britain abolished slavery. Let's not forget the huge role played by the RN!

Keep in mind that he doesn't say slavery, slavery had already been prominent in Europe if you go back to antiquity and it was still widespread throughout the world. He specifically says the slave trade, referring to the Atlantic Slave Trade. He would also be wrong on this account since the Portuguese and Spanish had already been trading in slaves previously. However, neither country would be able to match Great Britian in absolute numbers, it wouldn't have gotten as far as it did without British (or French) participation and it is largely responsible for creating the racial divide in the US (Not continuing it). As a small aside, I'm not trying to say that what other european countries wasn't bad, you're either in the slave trade and colonialism or you're not and what others did is just as morally wrong even if they weren't as good at doing it. You can even go farther and look at other european countries who would have done it if they could. The Danes, Sweedes, Austrians and Poles also tried to have colonies of their own at one point or another.

@@CamoHunt8 The Portuguese still actually transported more slaves.

I don't think he did, did he?

Let's not forget the Romans, Barbary Pirates or pretty much any large empire that needed cheap labour from it conquered enemies. Not an excuse for it yet not 100% the only slavers ever.

Careful hate facts will get you sent to the naughty bin. Egyptians built their own tombs dont ya know.

Who did they buy those slaves from?

​@@DarkZodiacZZ Mostly from the Mali empire, which Portugal already had trade relations with. Mali was the hub of west African slavery, and had been for centuries. But the Transatlantic slave trade was particularly brutal, even by the standards of ancient times. The conditions for the crossing, combined with the treatment of the slaves (especially in sugar plantations) is on a level never seen before.

I think his point was that the empire was the largest single contributor to the slave trade, I think

@@TG-tl4uj Or a prisoner of the Barbary Pirates.

@@nedkelly4825 Islamic slave trade continues to this day but we aren't allowed to say anything bad about Muslims and my comment will probably be shadow banned by RU-vid for saying it.

@@OriginalBongoliath Well said,

Was going to correct this twat also thanks for doing it for me.

@Present Tense "The slave trade" (also referred to as the "Atlantic slave trade", or "transatlantic slave trade", or the "Euro-American slave trade") in the context of European Colonialism, refers to the transatlantic trading patterns which were established as early as the mid-17th century. The British triangular trade in slaves, in which trading ships would sail from Europe with manufactured goods to the west coast of Africa to be traded for slaves, the ship would then transport the slaves to the Americas or the Caribbean, before returning home with cargoes of sugar, rum, tobacco and other 'luxury' items, is the "The slave trade" in question here. It is this Slave Trade that the British Empire controlled and "essentially started", which is being discussed; It is not about the slaves in Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire or the Bible (which were made up of predominately captured enemies) but the activity of exchanging goods for human beings and then buying, selling these people as chattels in a triangular trade route.

😎the “already watched” line never stops me…Simon’s Channels are the first I ever enjoyed reruns of!!!

I don't have that. Nothing in my feed tells me I've seen a video. For what its worth, I've never needed anything to tell me I've seen one. Thumb nails are great for recollection.

@@ryateo1 I watch thousands of videos and could never remember all of the thumbnails. RU-vid will only put a red line under the last 2000..a lot of times I’ve started watching a video only to realize 5 mins in I’ve seen it before

@@stdesy I wonder if its because I only use cheap phones without Google apps?

@@ryateo1 It’s probably that. I’m only ever on the opposite side with an iPhone but I do also see the red line on my PS5 and Roku RU-vid apps

To be fair, when you have an empire that large its only natural to forget where you placed a colony here and there.

Spaniards first pass by Virigina, not the genocidal Brits. See also the video "Spanish Discovery of Hawaii 1555." Jamey Cooked is overrated. Brits are overrated. The British Empire wasn't the biggest. Stay tuned for my video proving it.

@BB49 YOu can ask the brown people in Perú who exist because the Spanish weren't genocidal, and those people are indoctrinated to be anti-Spanish, so you'll get the wrong answer from their mouths, but the right answer from their existence.

@@scintillam_dei Ask the so-called indigenous “Brown People” in Mexico or Peru today of their opinions on how Cortez, Pizzaro or the other Spanish Conquistadores really treated their conquered & subjugated peoples (Their ancestors) in most, if not all their Latin-American colonies?!! It might totally be an eyes, ears, & wholly mind-opening experience for you!!

@@trevorfuller1078 You're talking to a Central Amercian. Most people are taught to hate Spain from youth. They're ingorant and gullible, just like you. Most Native Americans in América don't even know their identity. Their ignorant opinions don't change a thing except to show the injustice of anti-Spanish lies.

The stupidest quote ever.

Hahaha so damn true

@@theinformationbomber7102 explain

The British Empire evil, oh, compared to what, compared to which other empires. Ridding the Indian sub continent of it’s actually evil empire? Ffs get real.

@@drstrangelove4998 yes the British empire was evil.

Yep. An Empire that made such an impact through murder and rape that they changed the actual carbon foot print of the the human race as it was then (millions killed in such a short period, as in a few years that the amount of wood/fuels at the time burned reduced drammaticly, and 1 in 200 men in the human race share DNA direct to the Khans!).

What, you think that the Mongols were unique in their atrocities. Britain, France, Belgium, Netherlands were all able to shovel their problems under the rug. Winners write the history books, especially when most of those books were written after World War 1, mostly by the aforementioned powers. The most recent example of great atrocities is the infamous Mao Zedong, who from 1949 to 1979 (30 years) may have had 50-75 million killed through his actions. Even Genghis Khan did not do that, we do not know how many people Genghis killed, all is heresy written by others.

Whataboutery What the Mongol Empire did doesn't change what the British Empire did.

@@roisinmalone3015 Not whataboutery as this thread is asking about a videon about the Mongols...

@@roisinmalone3015 he’s not saying the British didn’t commit similar atrocities. He’s just saying he would like to see a video of Simon trying to smile through talking about it. Bring up another video idea isn’t shoving this under the rug

Sad UK has found another way to mess with the irish.send immgrant. And put money in the pockets of Irish leaders to close there eye's. Ireland don't want those immgarts😢

Ah, IP law. That was worth millions of deaths and decades of exploitation, wasn't it?

@@davidpalk5010 They never said it was.

@@rogersmith9535 . They suggested it was a positive, but we didn't spread it to China, the world's biggest manufacturing country, did we? No international IP laws in China today, which is why Taiwan does much of the top tech, as they've signed up to all major treaties. Did our empire take IP treaties to Taiwan? Nope.

​@@davidpalk5010 Nom they traded with the British and other western Nations. And so had to comply.

@@davidpalk5010 You say "decades of exploitation". India's GDP grew while the British were there. You underestimate the benefits from British trade and investment and from industrialisation of India's economy. Under the British an increase in Indian population also occurred with an increase of GDP per capita. And "between 1860 and 1940 employment in factories increased from less than 100,000 to two million. The share of factories in industrial employment of British India increased from almost zero in 1850 to 11% in 1938, and in industrial income from 15% in 1900 to 45% in 1947...The growth is impressive by any standard". Source: Tirthankar Roy.

I agree black African tribesmen were selling rival tribesmen taken battle and raids to Dutch merchants long before Britain got involved but that gets ignored cos we apologize and the Dutch don't.

The British STOPPED it, but unfortunately many people of colour still indulge in it. Anyway the British were victims of slavery for many hundreds of years before Africans.

​@@chalky7285 what? The Egyptians were doing it 5000 years ago. They didn't invent it either.

@@randomuser6306 I totally agree my friend it is a humanity problem and it will probably never end but can hope

Up until the British abolition of slavery, slavery has been practiced on every continent, by virtually all people. In no way, shape or form is it a "British" thing.

if you look at the comments below you will notice that 300 others have pointed that out already.

​@@andip7480 That means that 301 people that have commented know the truth.

Is he that well versed?...really? Seems like over simplified click-bait to me.

This is true, slavery predates Britain existance, romans did it, carthagenians did it, babylonians did it, hell on the oldest law code the Hamurabi code there is punishments for killing another person slave

The slave trade and slavery are not the same thing. The British started modern slavery to the US as we know it

I go to Duck 3 or 4x's a year.

Was just there two weeks ago, it’s definitely in the OBX, not South Carolina

Grew up near there. It is NC.

It's also not Great Britain's first overseas colony. That would be St John's Newfoundland, granted Royal Charter in 1583 after being a fishing outpost since 1497

@@Uncommoner However it was only seasonal and not permanent until 1610, 3 years after Jamestown was settled as the first PERMANENT English settlement in the new world.

Also those already there in Australia had no concept of land ownership, so couldn't sell the land for beans.

@@grahamross6397 Not to mention that the first European who "Discovered" Australia was the Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon which makes Britain's claim to Australia even thinner (if that is possible when the aboriginals had lived there for 60 000 years). But might makes right and the nation with the worlds largest Navy kinda did like they wanted back then, just like Spain did in the early 1500s.

Australia was a managed land , the natives had practiced burning the land since they arrived and they had structures just not in the Eurocentric view of civilisation

Makes me wonder if id be an American or even if id be alive as the same person if, after the USA divorced GB, the US govt hadnt expanded west and just stayed the original 13 colonies

@@angryatheist managed the land is an interesting way of putting it. There was an extinction event when they settled Australia, like everytime humanity found a new place to call home. Humans are the most ridiculously over and powered animal this planet has ever produced and this shows in the fossil record.

Sums up my argument perfectly, we were involved in the Slave Trade, but WE also stopped it ... on the 'balance sheet' of History, i think that it will show that finally abolishing Slavery is/was more important than being involved in it ... WE even provided reparations to Slave Owners to emancipate slaves, setting them free ... in 1832's money, it was £20 MILLION - in todays money, conservative estimates equate that £20 MILLION to anywhere between £10-20 BILLION - WE only FINISHED paying off that loan in 2014

Simon seems like the sort of smug bastard that is quite happy to live the life he does, where he does, with all the benefits of education, security, etc that come with that, whilst decrying the efforts that got us here. If he wants to feel sorry about anyone, it should be for the forgotten millions at home in Britain who toiled for centuries in poverty, to create the wherewithal that enabled the Empire to be established in the first place, but that never seems to worry such smug lefty gits. Question ?? Why do this kind of person always have beards ?? Seems to be a common trait amongst oppressors.

@@harrypotter4309 ...brilliant 👍

@@harrypotter4309 ... if it wasn't for Empire generating wealth, there would be no 'Services' to speak of, as on the whole 'Libtards' work in the Service Industries, so not generating wealth themselves, this is after they get their Media Studies degrees at Uni ... 🤣🤣🤣

@@brianhodgson9547 Absolutely spot on. I usually have a go at the universities (ever more left leaning since the 1920's) but I ran out of steam. Totally agree regarding their taking up of non jobs as I like to call them, and the media studies bit is so true. I was a witness to this nonsense grabbing hold in the education system in the early seventies, that and "liberal studies" which usually had in charge someone who was half our age, and knew nothing of the world except the information they had been indoctrinated with . We had much fun pulling them and their assertions apart. But it was difficult not to get angry with their smugness sometimes !! Happy Days !!

The worst thing you can do with history is to take the wrong lessons from it. Today many liberals are seeking revenge against the British empire by being...racist to Whites...

I am hoping they will do it. Simon said that they were thinking about doing the rest but the first video didn’t do that well.

@@matthewdopler8997 yeah I know thats why I keep commenting here and the side projects channel hoping he'll see it a realize many of us want them

Yes, we've had first Five Year Plan, but what about second Five Year Plan?

@@SkuLLetjaH there's 12 others

It's actually pretty simple: Every Soviet Citizen was given a stipend of vodka. Even when bread lines extended for miles and toilet paper was as rare as gold-pressed latinum, the USSR managed to keep the vodka flowing as if the supply was inexhaustible. THAT is a megaproject if evvrr thhrr wwss 1! 🥃🥴👌

Underrated comment

Not forgetting the Inca, Aztec & Mayans until the 16th century. Also, the Japanese in the 19th & 20th Century.

And it's not as if we started the American slave trade either, that was the Dutch, iirc. We were just more efficient at it, when we joined in.

There are countries in Africa who in recent years have formally apologized for the substantial role they played in the slave trade. Somehow, this is always forgotten when people talk about slavery.

Chattle Slavery, as practiced by the European empires in the age of exploration was substantially different than most historical forms of slavery, vastly wide spread, and still has measurable and direct impacts on people and communities still living today in multiple countries.

"the cool kids are doing it too" doesn't excuse the act of slavery. Just fucking own it. Let it marinade into acceptance, and do better for the future.

one thing I would quite like to point out is there were those in the empire who both supported its existance, while at the same time being horrified by atrocities commited by it. there was a political group which heavily praised the existance of the dominions and their self governance while critiquing British policy in Africa and Asia for not extending the same self government.

Slavery was awful and evil in the Bible circa 1000 BC.

@@sentientflower7891 Sure, but that was irrelevant for many, such as the Moors that enslaved the Portuguese or later some greedy Portuguese nobles and merchants. At the time there were champions against slavery, such as a humanist Jesuit that is one of our 'national heroes'. This greedy mentality that drove empires is not so different nowadays. People accept that climate changes is a consequence of our behaviour. Do most of the big companies really care? I don't see that. They just pay (or make us pay) a 'climate tax' and clean their hands. Immediate profit cannot be stopped, even if it seriously damages future generations. That is not properly a Christian idea, in my opinion. Not to disagree with you, it is just to say that this is the way humanity has been.

@@a.ferreira9787 the ultimate climate change tax is the extinction of the human species. That bill is coming due. Soon. Jesus Christ isn't returning. Ever.

we still have slaves you know, we just don't call them slaves. we call them, NBA players.

Yup

I think the Portuguese were the first to be shipping from Africa. Maybe we was the first to do it on an industrial scale, as we'd just invented industry.

@@funster73mcr2 There was more shipped to Brazil. It's just America is the world's most powerful country and emphasising carefully chosen narratives works in favour of competing interests.

wasn't even that bad, the alternative was starving in many cases, or just being wiped out as was the case with ancient tribal warfare.

The British Empire put an end to slavery in the west though.

@@vinaynk erm, no.

Bit disappointing this video! No context of Arab trade or African slavery, or warning about judging history from the present, no mention that while Indian rulers and peasants resented British presence, the traders and merchants preferred the increased security and maritime /interior reach. (T. Roy)

​@alexgibson2871 :: Yeah❕️ The old :: _Get Out of Jail Free Card._ _Everyone else was doing it._ _They sold their own people._ That and much-more pretty-much sums up the British horrific and nefarious nature. They can't even accept their responsibility for their global crimes.

Arab trans Saharan trade.

Of course Brits didn’t invented it but they just used it to build their empire for centuries They didn’t invent it they just excelled it

Defo. Portugal was a lot more prolific at it too.

@@anoopkl4u Yes! The same as the the Mogul empire in India (and those before it), Egyptians, Chin Dynasty, Islamic states (espescially in Afirca where it was bigger and lasted longer than the Atlantic slave trade) etc... Infact every civilisation ever........ they also excelled at it.

@@anoopkl4u the Portuguese and Dutch were the experts on that that's leftist distortion of history

Agreed

Yep. The Bible is very clear, that we are not held accountable, responsible, or guilty for the sins of our ancestors. Anyone who believes in god believes in this.

@@robfer5370 Isn't one of the central ideas of Christianity that EVERYONE is held accountable/ responsible for a fruit-related transgression of an ancestor in the Garden of Eden?

@@NJards-zt4fp * Deity class beings may apply exceptions unilaterally. Deal with it, mortals

Actually u can't make those mistakes again

“not make the same mistakes” then get tf out of Ireland

So...?

Dof.not France +.England both invade indigenous 1st Nations?

Louis XIV died in 1715, well before the Treaty of Paris. New France was not the largest colony in 1759, it was the Portuguese colony of Brazil.

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It was Voltaire said of Canada " it was just a few acres of snow" and Louis XIV died long before the Treaty of Paris gave New France to Britain. You really need to get your history straight. Although not mentioning Canada is a true oversight.

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Make the British empire great again! #MTBEGA

@@noworriesnoproblems6382 American Empire beat your British Empire, heck, the US doesn't even call it an empire. Get rekt mate, the metropole of the previous empire is now their bish. Britannia rules the its part of the waves for the US.

@@BallyBoy95 Can you write that again do its readable? I'll take it you said Britain is the best. TA LA!

@@noworriesnoproblems6382 Can I write it again do its readable? I'll take it you said Britain is the best at taking in immigrants as is your responsible.

As all things should be...

I was wondering about that, is it a British holiday or something?

@@lejibus not that I know of; school year starts 4th September, then nothing else till Explodey Day on 5th November.

@@williamchamberlain2263 I love that. Explodey Day. Fabulous. I too came to see this video because of Blue's recent one hehe

Haughey finished slavery in ireland in 1990 .. i know my mother was classified as one and couldnt own a say in our farm ... AND HER BIRTH FAMILY AND DADS THE OLDEST NATIVE ONES IN CONNOCHT .. THE black and tans were the first swatzika wearing lorries in the world ! the tax gathered always went to london and fitzgerald was worse than maggie and thats saying something but true .

Irish historians have brought into doubt the shrill claims of genocide.

And France should be happy they don't speak German after they dropped so many rifles in 2 world wars.

there is no "we" however unless you're attributing generational, blood based collective responsibility. If people are collectively responsible for slavery, they are also collectively responsible for the modern world and all its luxuries. So, are you sure "we" want to go down this road?

The British empire still exists

@@iseeundeadpeople9 In your head

@@Mute040404 It's called the Commonwealth.

well yes, but what about before that? the other tribe was ruling over the latter one.

Rwanda?

Where are you talking about?

Washington DC is an interesting remain

The slave trade itself was started by the muslim arabs in the 7th century after they *Invaded* *Occupied* *Colonized* North Africa , they converted the berbers and then the Othoman Turks came , all these 3 muslim groups established History's *Largest* and *Longest* slavetrade (7th to 20th century) , they enslaved millions of Black africans and millions of Europeans (they raided european coasts and ships) .... when Europe finaly broke out of the islamic siege in the 16th century they became Clients of the islamic SlaveTrade ,they bought slaves from the muslims , even many Pagan African tribes became SlaveTraders and raided neighboring tribes to sell them to both muslims and europeans

When the Roman empire left Britain, it turned into the dark ages

Well to be fair it’s an empire in name only. If Australia or Canada decided they no longer wanted to be part of the British Empire there’s very little the Brits could actually do to stop it.

Oh it’s weirder than that. Australians can vote in British elections, stand as MPs, sit in the House of Lords, and the real King is Australian. The British have no reciprocal rights in Australia, so who really is the colonial master now?

​@@colingreen5553silly comment two lndependent countries members of the commonwealth, meaningless head of state sensibly don't trust politicians.

I'm not entirely sure that this is entirely honest. Parts of this feel as though he's just saying what will get the approval of RU-vid. I'm gonna spend the next hour or two reading.

The great Genghis Khan.? The man was a murderer and rapist on an unimaginable scale. He should be spoken in the same breath as Hitler in my book. But that's just my view.

Oh, ok. It's fine 'cus some other nations did it first. Thanks for your input.

@@CannaCJ "Oh, ok. It's fine 'cus some other nations did it first." If you can't win the argument, just accuse your opponent of supporting slavery!

nobody ever really complaines about the early empire's slave practices

But they had a lot to do with the Transatlantic slave trade, which is what he was referring to.

@@stephenj4937 And they *still* weren’t the first to do that; Spain and Portugal had been buying and exporting slaves from Africa for a century before English merchants got involved.

2nd this

That would be a good watch.

US was Europeans who brought there practices here…. Eventually US has done trillion times more good than harm to the 🌎

@@gk4539 that's a very huge overestimation. And no, the US is not so great that it counterweights it's past and current misdeeds. It's very good at redirecting people's blame tho.

@@gk4539 Really? How?

'The slave trade' is not the same as 'trading in slaves'. The slave trade, in this context, is the term used to decribe the atlantic slave triangle. I think he is aware slavery existed before an after the british empire.

we are talking about chattel slavery

@@terrancehall9762 yes... and?

@@allytg1 It really suits the narrative of certain countries to label the Atlantic slave trade as "the slave trade". The reality is that the slave network developed by Muslims that developed into the Barbary Pirates was the largest network of slaves ever seen. Americans just love attention too much.

@@SharpeBalth I mean if its amaericans talking about slavery then its not that weird for them to call it 'the slave trade'. Simularly to how they call it the civil war. There were other civil wars but when talking about their own they don't need to specify.

The birth of the Overseas Development industry

They were busy with operation Legacy, destroying any materials showing atrocities committed by the British in occupied nations.

Have you ever tried those sausages? Take my advice, don’t!!

Yeah, but it's really difficult to blame that one on the British when the natives were pushed out of their home over 1000 years ago, and have been repeatedly persecuted in Europe since migrating there, from being massacred in the 14th century due to being blamed for the black death, all the way up to what happened in WW2. None of this was the fault of the British, nor was it their fault when huge numbers of Jews started turning up in the middle east immediately post WW2. That should have been on the collective shoulders of the international community to deal with. We could have all chipped in to buy some land somewhere in the world to resettle them in a new country of their own.

@@BigBoomOfDoom2 To me it sounded like he meant the Iraq/Syria border from the "Sykes-Picot Agreement"

@@fjooyou Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying.

They did nothing during the famine in Ireland at the same time , but they did force ireland to export enough food to feed the population to Britain

@@daithideburca98 True.

@@daithideburca98 ye, one of the empires greatest mistakes. Sending more food aid could have saved many lives

Hello from a worse future.

Yeah, but slavery was far worse to their own people in each country that had factories. Those conditions now have been civilized, so no one really suffers any of this.

You’re right. Nothing is completely black or white and thinking in extremes can lead to dangerous path

Huh saying this because they are talking about Britain which is pride for most of you westners😂😂

It's also however a whataboutism... Everyone else did it so that's OK yeah?

The thing is, that if you actually have a conscience, and try to better yourself, which western societies in general do, unlike less developed societies, you will be called out, for exposing yourself. Even though other countries and cultures have done the exact same thing, sometimes much worse, they are not called out for it, and they are sure as hell not going to admit to ANYTHING. And that is essentially, why they are not able to better themselves and create better societies for their people. if their inferior minds, you are exposing yourself. In a western context it's sometimes good to sometimes admit mistakes, so that there is a chance for you to better yourself.

Not "we" but mentally ill leftists.

And looking at the comments on this video no matter how much you feel bad people will still see you as a cartoonish villain. They will claim that all British people touch themselves constantly thinking of imperialism. Then when you say you are sorry for things long dead people possibly not even related to you did, they will demand more and more while still demonising you. Screw them.

I'm not sure if that's entirely true. There are some examples of the British starting to face up to their past but it's slow and patchy. There is no formal mention in school curriculums and the current government is trying to ban the national trusts from mentioning links to slavery attached to historic buildings. The conversations are just starting but not in full swing.

They were visited by the fat man and his little boy. Arguably more than enough payment long term

@@twofortyrida It's not a matter of payment. It's a matter of recognizing that their grandfathers and great-grandfathers committed some unspeakable crimes. Japan does not recognize historical events such as the rape of Nanking, medical and chemical experimentation conducted on Chinese citizens, the plight of Korean and Dutch comfort women. Young Japanese grow up believing that their country was an innocent victim of World War II which culminated in unprovoked atomic attacks.

@@wtorules4743 Do you have any evidence of that?

@@wtorules4743 slavery gets taught in secondary schools lol

We definitley ended it though

the transatlantic...

@@mcmarkmarkson7115 he didn't say transatlantic

Surely the Spanish began the Transatlantic slave trade moving slaves from Ceuta to the Caribbean replacing the poor Taino across the Atlantic Ocean. In a crossing motion. In a Transatlantic kind of way? Not condoning Slavery, slavery is 'orrible but Britain was relative late comers to the party. We just did it an absolute shit load over a relatively short period. We were also the first major player to stop it and then started enforcing everyone else to submit to ship searches to make sure everyone else stopped it also.

An over simplification, the British empire was one of the primary and initiating proponents of the Atlantic slave trade though, that specific one. People do tend to think of this specific one when they hear the phrase ‘slave trade’, because it was probably the worst slaves were treated in history if only because there were so many people being treated like utter shit. In the ancient world there would of course have been slaves treated worse I imagine, but not on such a massive scale.