Re: OT:Thanksgiving

In article <e9abee75-b9ba-4d48-8871-01e6308756ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alistair <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think that the white man's burden was not a racial statement that
non-whites were inferior and needed to be ruled/enslaved

Phooey. Of course it was exactly that.

but, rather,
that because the non-whites were incapable of ruling themselves

I.e. "inferior" ...

the
white man was burdened with the task himself.

... and "needed to be ruled."

It might have helped a
bit if the Brits had done more to educate and empower the local
populations such that they could rule themselves to the standard that
the white man expected

And why should they do that? What's wrong with ruling themselves to
_their_own_ standards?

and if we had not so desperately tried to hold
on to overseas possessions after WW2.

Or had learned any lessons from a painful and embarrassing experience
attempting to do so in the late 18th century...

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
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