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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

In Mihi Forbes' report on Rimmer's political influences, we hear Canadian Professor Tom Flanagan eulogising about how much more civilized our colonising ancestors were than the indigenous people they dispossessed;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mata-with-mihingarangi-forbes?share=72011f03-6c03-4be9-bd4f-bb8d71b6606c

If they were so civilized, why did they enslave people, and name places in indigenous peoples' lands after slavers?

https://buttondown.com/unsettling/archive/new-zealand-connections-to-caribbean-slavery/

Or if that's a sign of being civilised, why did they stop?

#podcasts#RNZ#Mata

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