Ukraine - Russia Conflict

I think this should be a cue to RoI to make their contribution to Ukraine like all the nations in the western camp have. RoI has no army or armament industry worth the name to train or supply Ukraine with .

But they've a thriving dairy industry. How about RoI donating thousands of cattle of the 4 legged kind to make up the loss of Ukraine ? They can supply the 2 legged kind too . O don't think the Ukrainians would complain.
 
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Yeah, but the fact is you were still doing it.






You were still doing it after independence too. The 1987 Act also describes 'forced burning'.

Nobody would describe it as a good progressive entity, but yet it did institute some progress, which emphasises the dire state of India when it arrived.
Let's focus on the practice of witch huntings of some of the most civilised nations in the west , notably the UK - the epitome of western civilization & prime mover of the idea - white man's burden of civilising the natives .


It was, however, not until the second half of the 16th century that a widescale witch hunt took place in England. The cases became more common in the end of the 16th century and the early 17th century, particularly since the succession of James VI and I to the throne. King James had shown a great interest in witch trials since the Copenhagen witch trials in 1589, which had inspired the North Berwick witch trials in Scotland in 1590. When he succeeded to the English throne in 1603, he sharpened the English Witchcraft Act the following year.


The end

After the many witch trials of the mid 17th century, the cases became fewer during the second half of the 17th century. Mary Hicks and her daughter Elizabeth Hicks have been referred to as the last people executed for witchcraft in England in 1716.

Witch trials formally ended in England after the introduction of the Witchcraft Act of 1735.

As one may note this was less than a century before the sati act was enacted in India , which incidentally was another crowning achievement of propaganda of the British imperial colonial project for if sati were the norm & average life expectancy being what it was then ( > 40 ) compounded by the massive famines , India would certainly not be among the most massively populated lands either then or before or since till date .


Every nation & it's people are known for certain traits which in turn also become it's defining characteristics & end up being stereotypes , justifiably so or not .

There are 6-7 such defining characteristics of the British & which have acquired the status of an institution in the UK today having been shaped thus since the past half a millenium .

The class system

Capitalism

Colonialism / white man's burden

The love of :

Buggery

Cuckoldry

Afternoon tea

Cricket.

It's the love of afternoon tea which saw it's demand shoot up thousands of times such that the UK started leaking silver paying for it thru their nose to the Chinese that they hit upon the diabolical scheme of exporting opium to offset their losses in bullion to pay up for their hopeless addiction to tea. Since India was already their colony , cultivating opium wasn't a big problem nor was forcing the Chinese into seeing things their way after the opium wars.


Let's come to another famous or rather infamous but beloved British institution - the love of buggery .

Apparently Henry VIII enacted the law outlawing buggery to escape persistent rumours that he preferred buggering his wives & when they couldn't bear him a male heir , he got rid of them .

Henry VIII also despised buggery between males which apparently was widely prevalent among the aristocracy & was increasingly gaining popularity with the plebeians.

The last thing the aristocracy wanted was growing familiarity between the ruling class & the ruled. Hence the passage of such a law . In fact the law followed the British where ever they went across the world . Be it in Ireland or India where the law was enacted in 1861. The horror of an English civil servant or an army officer get his behind serviced by a page boy or a sepoy at night & who had to rise up to salute the former in day time who if he refused to do so on account of the intimacy they shared was so galling to the entire edifice of colonialism that such laws had to be enacted & prosecution initiated to maintain the charade.
 
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Oh sure. You keep telling yourself that, 75 years after. :rolleyes: Your problems will never be fixed whilst you allow your government to use that excuse.

Meanwhile:


Most Racist Countries in the World (WaPo and BT results combined)*:​

  1. India
  2. Lebanon
  3. Bahrain
  4. Libya
  5. Egypt
Article on Most racist countries lists India at the top & somewhere at the very beginning in the article also states that India hardly received immigrants even as tourists or houses any immigrants .

If I bring this up as another example of the Paddification / Irishification of the western media & it's audiences , I suppose this would be an example of racism too , isn't it Paddy ?
 
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Most of the stuff you post like this one are disingenuous at the best. As I have said earlier most of these reports are self satisfying at the best , they are more less to make themselves look good and others bad.

Large scale slavery as an institution existed and exists in west in different forms(bcos west is a materialistic civilization with lesser human element) . In modern day , west uses refugees as slaves albeit indirectly as cheap labor denying them level playing field to fight for their rights. At the same time they will pass meaningless laws which in no way can be enforced without victim getting threatened & abused further.

A good example of modern slavery is US using illegal immigrants as cheap labor while it supports regimes in their countries which routinely abuse human rights. These immigrants are smuggled and made to do manual labor in horrible conditions. Obviously ppl will defend west has having rules, laws...etc but what they don't talk about is that they themselves are responsible for creating those conditions, environ and benefit from it.


Simpler and straightforward example is US imports from china which obviously use forced prison labor.
No, they're just factual and you can't handle it because they call you out on something.

There are minimum wages in the West, refugees are literally dying to get there. If that's slavery, then clearly they're coming from worse.

Give me a break, people smuggling is illegal. And the West is currently trying to fight off both people smuggling and excessive mass migration.

You can blame the WTO for that. But at the end of the day, India can't really point the finger at China as regards living standards, or as regards slavery, since it has twice as many people under modern slavery.
 
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