Originally posted by BridgePlayerYou're just mad that we kicked your limey butts back to England, twice.
Yes how great those things were. Hey, didn't those come around the same time as slavery, and you guys counting black people as 3/5 of a person. And who can forget, less than 50 years ago, segregation, white only schools, dining places, water fountains, movie theaters, etc.... And hey, doesn't this type of stuff still go on now? Its pretty sad when a cou ...[text shortened]... Wouldnt want them to mix with the "americans" huh. Yet another thing to be proud of I guess.
And another thing, slavery was all right when the English controlled the colonies. Oh course everyone knows that the US and not Europe raped and pilaged Africa. I don't think that the great socialist England would force South Africans to work gold and diamond mines. And let's not forget about aparti since we are bringing up segregation.
Does anyone else remember the time when non-violent protests at mines in India were quelled by the British beating the living crap out of unarmed men?
It has always made me laugh when somebody will criticize someone else's country's history and completely ignore what their country has done in the past. Normally this kind of behavior would not bother me but to do it on the Fourth of July is just being asinine.
Originally posted by badmoonright on.
You're from England, you idiot. Your country refined imperialism. Remember India? Are you actually trying to say that England never enslaved anyone? What kind of history books do your schools provide? You've taken too many soccer balls off of your thick skull.
I don't mind criticism of my country. I'm as critical of the USA as anyone I know. But yo ...[text shortened]... ve skeletons in your closet. Don't villify the USA when you have a past that mirrors it.