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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To what extent are France and Portugal also being held responsible for colonizing India, in the public opinion? Their monarchies were obviously long gone by the 1950s and 60s when their Indian colonies finally gained independence. Britain and France traded Pondicherry back and forth between them for centuries. I've yet to hear an outcry about the French and Portuguese governments, or any demand for reparations from them, which makes the sudden backlash against British constitutional monarchy sound contrived. Clearly European colonialism flourished despite the absence of monarchies. [/quote]

Absolutely Indians from that region (Goa) feel the Portuguese were brutal. Doesn't make British colonization "okay" (like, everyone's doing it so who cares?)[/quote]

You missed the point. The point is that colonialism was also perpetuated by governments without monarchies (such as Portugal in the 20th c), so there's clearly some selective moral grandstanding going on. Portugal enriched itself by keeping Goa into the 60s. The Goan fight for independence was almost 200 years after our own, and people lost their lives for it. Yet you're still going to Portugal for your summer vacays like you DGAF that colonial human rights abuses were perpetuated by the Portuguese government a few decades ago, and probably you really don't care and didn't know. Blaming the monarchy is so convenient because it keeps the focus off our own Neocolonialism. It's not about monarchy per se, it's about power. [/quote]

Well the Germans had the Holocaust and 12 million people enjoy lovely holidays there. There’s also the Japanese holocaust but folks love Tokyo and of course basically everything China does and we’ve all got homes full of stuff they make. 92 percent of women and girls in Egypt have and continue to undergo FGM but let’s go See the pyramids and talk about how welcoming and warm the people are. Everybody is horrible.[/quote]

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