I’ve noticed what I’d consider a substantial amount of hatred towards the British empire recently, and I’m not really sure why

The colonies we had were far better treated than most colonies of the era, or ever to be honest.

Almost every country has had empires that have treated their subjects terribly. But I’ve never seen anyone talking about the Roman, Mongolian, Persian, or Aztec empires with anything but being impressed. No one shits on the French, dutch or Spanish (who were notorisly cruel to their colonies).

The British empire was a huge part of ending the trans-atlanric slave trade. One of the first European countries to condemn it.

The British museum was set up to preserve artifacts which would have been looted or destroyed, not to mention it’s completely free to enter. Almost everything in there would have been lost (although I’ll admit the Greek stuff seems like it was probably not given)

Yet it seems we’re despised for by many people online, is it a fad?

  • Suspiciousbrowsing@kbin.melroy.org
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    9 months ago

    The British museum was set up to preserve artifacts which would have been looted or destroyed,

    This is fairly disingenuous. If the sole purpose was to preserve artifacts, then they would be happy to return said artifacts to original owners once shown they can appropriately store and maintain them. That is clearly not the case. I think your definition of “legally purchased” may be a little creative. Sure they may have paid money through a trader… but there definitely was not due diligence, it’s basically an old cash converters.