Looked up Barbary lions (white lions) after I read a post that I felt was trying to imply North Africans had hunted them to extinction, and found out (surprise surprise) it was the French who did that (www.reddit.com)

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Someone had made a reply on a youtube video saying that Barbary lions were native to North Africa and were hunted to extinction in their habitats so I looked it up (because honestly with zero context this sounds like they were implying the people from North Africa were responsible; the average person doesn't know France had colonized many African countries) and found out it was the French who were responsible for the extinctions.

And you know what's crazy? If the people of North Africa had been responsible for the extinction it would've been blamed on them as people; but the French doing it, you know they won't blame the French as a people for it, and will come up with excuses for why it's either okay, or just those individuals, or why it's no longer relevant (which they wouldn't for people from North Africa).

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[-] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

Eurocuck colonizers are responsible for the extinction of many species from colonized countries but you'll never hear a white person mention that, it's suddently about how evil "humans" are when before colonization those species were doing just fine.