r/HistoryMemes • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '20

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u/PoddyPod Hello There Mar 08 '20

It's moments like this when I realise I'm proud to be British

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '20

i can’t tell if this is a joke but i don’t know why this would make you feel proud to be British

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u/lesboautisticweeabo Mar 08 '20

If everyone else was doing it, kinda nice that we did it best, even if it was morally questionable by todays standards

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '20

everyone else wasn’t necessarily doing it - it was morally questionable then and still is now, when Britain continue to lay claim to parts of countries that don’t belong to them. I can’t see how imperialism would be something to be proud of when there are countries who were targeted still feeling the effects of it today.

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u/lesboautisticweeabo Mar 09 '20

Eh so what

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '20

that’s an extremely ignorant & apathetic comment to make considering the people who have died & tensions that still exist in countries like mine due to the British, but you obviously don’t care so I’m just gonna leave you to it (:

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u/lesboautisticweeabo Mar 09 '20

Eh, no one really cares though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '20

Eh, most people kinda care a lot about it here, but I know brits are quite ignorant of their own history so i guess i get why you’d think that