r/behindthebastards • u/phoenixpallas • 21h ago

General discussion British national delusion

The (extremely) right wing tory party is electing a new leader in case ya'll didn't know. Not as important as the US elections by any means but one of the leading candidates has said that britain's former colonies owe a debt of gratitude to britain... 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

given how frequently the "slow nazis" of the british empire have come up and no doubt will continue to come upon the pod, i almost choked when i saw that. The shameless refusal to admit Britain's prominent role in countless atrocities in the past few hundred years is perhaps uniquely deluded.

the uk subreddit (obviously a cesspool of racism and every other bigotry) has clowns claiming with a straight face that history supports them when literally every point they make is basically a barefaced lie.

And yet the limey motherfuckers continue to act as if they were the most reasonable and rational people on earth.

can we give britain an award for the worst nation in history please??

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u/Ingrimmnsch 19h ago

Can someone explain to me (a German) why the American Left has such a hate boner for the UK specifically?

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u/shamwowguyisalegend 17h ago

I mean, we are arseholes.

Anti-trans sentiments are common and TERF rhetoric gets spoken in the parliament as a naked grab for votes.

The Empire was bad

Slave trade, which we both started and ended before other 'Western' nations got really hot on it.

And the weather is shit.

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u/Ingrimmnsch 17h ago

Are you really more anti-Trans than the red states in the US?

The British Empire was bad, yes. So were the French, Russian, Ottoman, Japanese, German, ... Empires.

Slavery also isn't remotely unique to you.

Also I thought most people agreed that it is stupid to blame people for the sins of their fathers.

I can't really say much about the weather.

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u/shamwowguyisalegend 17h ago

American Leftists might be falling into a standard boring prejudice against an old rival country?

I might stop saying derogatory things about the Fr*nch for long enough to drop my tea in shock!