907
submitted 3 months ago by hamid@crazypeople.online to c/memes@lemmy.ml
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

It's merely vassalized, not dead and buried. The UK is still imperialist.

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 1 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure what that matters for the topic at hand.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

The British Empire is neither gone nor forgotten.

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip -1 points 3 months ago

The whole point was if they're going to be viewed worse than Nazi Germany. Do you feel like there's a point where the empire is gone and people will switch to thinking of it worse than Nazi Germany?

It hasn't happened yet and I don't see it happening tbh.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago
[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 0 points 3 months ago

I did say "most" in the first comment

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

Most Europeans, maybe, not most people.

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Definitely most Europeans and Westerners, but I meant most people. But I don't think there's any actual numbers or that so not much sense to get into an argument about it

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

The global south tends to not like the north as much.

[-] DeepSpace9mm@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

That's the most concise geopolitical overview I've seen.

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 0 points 3 months ago
[-] vritrahan@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

Come to a country that was colonised by the British, and you'll see a very different opinion. And there's far more of us than white people.

[-] DeepSpace9mm@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Is it possible that you can't see the opinion changing because it is a very slow process that you are only living through a portion of? I've noticed more people mentioning the Bengal famine when Churchill is lionized, for example.

this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2026
907 points (92.2% liked)

Memes

55654 readers
333 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 7 years ago
MODERATORS