>>216031480 (OP)
This is a pretty good example of how historylets operate. Belgium was a private colony owned by the Belgian monarch, not Belgium and they enforced the rubber quotas on natives by using the more bellicose natives as enforcers. Because Africans are dumb they just chop the hands off people not meeting the quotas, which obviously is NOT conducive to rubber harvesting. Belgians never wanted this, nor did they ask for it, in fact they tried to stop it because they want more money. Yet this is just watered down to
>did you know white belgians were running around hacking off nigger hands or something during colonialism????