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I just read this. Felt weird; I fully know that Britain had a chequered history (we aren’t taught that Britain is ‘The Best TM’ – Britain’s errors are pointed out to us from age 7 onwards*). We know we were colonialists, invaders, slavers, warmongers, fought with others, fought amongst ourselves, fought with our own left foot, whatever. So I was taught all of that as a child. It’s no surprise.
So I just read this article and went ‘…oh crap…’. Interesting academically as it’s a new ‘thing to apologise for’ to me – wasn’t aware of it before. But also ‘goddamit… add it to the shame list’.
*Even when taught about the Romans we are basically told ‘the Romans came over and brought amazing advances with them. Straight roads! Organisation! Underfloor heating! Then the Roman Empire folded and we forgot all the good shit they’d introduced for 500+ years – we entered the dark ages, so named because we didn’t record shit. Forget underfloor heating, we didn’t even blog.’
