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  • Civility [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I mean, colonial exploitation often involves a coerced, horribly unequal treaty or "trade agreement".

    Equating international treaties with consent is a screamingly bad take but saying "if there's a treaty it can't be colonialism" is also harmful and ignorant.

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I mean, if a country has a comprador government, even a democratically elected one, they selling the country cheap agreeing to be colonized doesn't mean the majority of people of a country want to be colonized.

  • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    That whole thread is great. Good to see the reddit brain falls apart when posts are made when Americans are asleep.

  • sam5673 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Idk the British did get the consent of the Indian upper class so it depends how you count it