Thread 17939344

They were all racist anyways.

The congo genocide was a false flag created by england to try and get the heat off of themselves

>>17939344 (OP)
They were racist, but in a way where they regarded black people as being mentally underdeveloped and basically like children. And European regarded themselves as humanitarians and thought it was the white man's burden to look after and help develop these childlike peoples. When Leopold took over the Congo he justified it to the powers of Europe by using this humanitarian logic, plus to stop the Arab slave trade in the region.
Of course all European powers did exploit the local population to some extent, and there were ambitions to gain the Congo for themselves by proving Leopold to cruel too look after the local Africans mixed in with the bleeding hearts who truly brought the whole white man's burden thing. >>17939357 But to claim that was solely the reason and it was all made up is nonsense.

A European, Christian monarch ought not to act like a Mexican cartel boss or African chieftain.

>>17939344 (OP)
because it was animal cruelty

>>17939344 (OP)
I don't support colonialism, but Leopold should've killed more to make them seethe their guts out.

>>17939369
Most genocides are invented. Why isn't the great leap forward considered a genocide when it killed more people through starvation than every genocide?

Most of the deaths in the Congo were from sleeping sickness. There was no such thing as punishing blacks by chopping their hands off for not delivering rubber. Most of the rubber trees were killed by natives in about 15 years because they figured out they got more rubber if they cut the whole tree down. The English were using missionaries in the Congo to traffick weapons, a socialist Irish saw this and claimed it was because the belgians were ethnically cleansing the congo. British investigations found no evidence of any wrongdoing but the missionaries went around the globe with pictures of the same like 5 people with their hands and feet cut off and told especially Americans that the belgians were doing this to every many woman and child

It's a complete historical myth perpetuated by the black persecution complex

>>17939344 (OP)
Wait until you find out what bantoids do to other bantoids

>>17939393
>isn't the great leap forward considered a genocide
It is.

>>17939400
Haha. I mean an actual genocide and not a "it made people feel bad" genocide

you need to pretend you have moral superiority for people not to destroy your empire externally or internally

this has always been the case

why do you think america spends billions and endless manpower on psychological ops to trick people that everything they do is a good thing

>>17939393
Neither are actually genocide

>>17939393
>Most genocides are invented. Why isn't the great leap forward considered a genocide
Genuine question - are you retarded?
>https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition
>In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
Obviously the deaths caused by the great leap forward weren't a genocide, and by this definition nor would I consider the deaths caused by Leopold in the Congo to be genocide. Importantly if you actually read my post you'll notice I never even used the word once. I don't even know what you think you're proving. People have never killed a load of other people because the great leap forward isn't a genocide? You absolute cretin.
Anyway, the rest of your post is just as retarded as your opening paragraph and unworthy of analysis.

>>17939413
Rather genocides are propaganda trying to sell you something. The invention of the concept after WWII to describe what is essentially the consequences of warfare don't actually help anyone

>>17939420
A civilian being caught in crossfire constitutes neither genocide nor war crimes.

>>17939481
Well there is the concept of total war which I think is what most people would consider "stepping over the line" in warfare. But I don't think the people that play with such concepts like genocide are trying to actually explain anything to anyone