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Yes, the British imposed taxes on Indian salt produced and sold in India in order to force people to buy imported (British) salt. Millions of people died because they literally couldn't afford salt any more.

This eventually led to Gandhi marching to Dandi to deliberately violate the salt laws and was one of the key moments in the struggle for Indian Independence.

It really breaks my heart that the British killed tens (maybe hundreds) of millions of Indians for no reason at all and they've gotten away with it both in terms of any actual consequences as well as in the realm of public opinion. And to make matters worse, we still have so-called British intellectuals who like to argue that colonization was somehow a good thing for India.




I downloaded the Google Arts and Culture app and tried the first documentary in my VR kit. The "South African Prison" one.

Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in this tiny cell http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/51d081ccecad04b3350...

How can we humans be so cruel?


When you consider the other is not human, I've heard it's very easy.


And today the kill god knows how many by helping rich people in poor countries avoid taxes, via The City.

The British establishment are horrible.


History will judge them harshly indeed.


Not that harshly. Just look at the new Churchill biopic with Gary Oldman.


You're right. Or just the fact that Brits voted him number one greatest Britons of all times in 2002.

All times. Above Sir Isaac Newton. Above Charles Darwin. Above William Shakespeare. Reality is stranger than fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons


Well, Princess Diana was #3. So the whole thing's pretty moronic and irrelevant. Still, I guess everyone has their own idea what great means.


Citing such a list shows a fairly comprehensive void of understanding British culture. Guy Fawkes is pretty high on that list for a home-grown, treasonous terrorist, wouldn't you say? Just below Bowie.


Isnt now the time to discuss that history




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