Of all the things they could have chosen to depict Belgium as, they chose the one thing that is completely fake. Nice.
Tbh all of them did it like the British are depicted here.
Am Belgian. Can confirm.
Ja Monseigneur le Roi… Da’s nie bepaald nen schone indruk da ge ons hebt gelaten…
We were all doing what the Brits did.
Also, Leopold 2 was a very bad man and did absolute worse things and was as evil, or worse, as the famine organized by the British in the 40’s in India.
Also, I’m not agreeing with the “look what Belgium did”-tone of those discussions. The government clearly was not able to fix the shit Leopold 2 left us but, for the record, we were just beaten down from an industrial leading nation to shambles by some of the nations who go religiously woke on us every couple of months when everybody re-re-remembers Congo. We should have fixed it yes, but the scale of problems that psychopath left us was just too big for our country back then.
Not being defensive here. Just tired of the hypocrisy around this topic.
And yes, I know I will be considered an evil-denying bastard.
Ah after the usual and typical post of the week of “Why can’t I make friends in Belgium?” we get the usual and typical “LII and Belgians made a mess in Congo”.
Can we just get over it. None of the people still excist victems nor purputrators
Klopt niet, Leopold 2 is zelf nooit in Congo geweest… /s
I think we can agree that generally the entire colonization stick is a bad rap for all nations that did so. One can argue “twer the times”. But that doesn’t change that it was atrocious.
But the whole “who was worst” is an odd thing right?
Going into another country and wrecking their shit is a scuffed move. We might not have done it personally, but anyone going “oooh we weren’t that bad” makes my head tilt in a “huuur?”
Godverdomme leopold de 2de
correction , it was a free state of king leopold
Everybody always forgets the VOC.
And decades later, biggest international incident involving us was Belgian soldiers roasting a black person over a fire …
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Of all the things they could have chosen to depict Belgium as, they chose the one thing that is completely fake. Nice.
Tbh all of them did it like the British are depicted here.
Am Belgian. Can confirm.
Ja Monseigneur le Roi… Da’s nie bepaald nen schone indruk da ge ons hebt gelaten…
We were all doing what the Brits did.
Also, Leopold 2 was a very bad man and did absolute worse things and was as evil, or worse, as the famine organized by the British in the 40’s in India.
Also, I’m not agreeing with the “look what Belgium did”-tone of those discussions. The government clearly was not able to fix the shit Leopold 2 left us but, for the record, we were just beaten down from an industrial leading nation to shambles by some of the nations who go religiously woke on us every couple of months when everybody re-re-remembers Congo. We should have fixed it yes, but the scale of problems that psychopath left us was just too big for our country back then.
Not being defensive here. Just tired of the hypocrisy around this topic.
And yes, I know I will be considered an evil-denying bastard.
Ah after the usual and typical post of the week of “Why can’t I make friends in Belgium?” we get the usual and typical “LII and Belgians made a mess in Congo”.
Can we just get over it. None of the people still excist victems nor purputrators
Klopt niet, Leopold 2 is zelf nooit in Congo geweest… /s
I think we can agree that generally the entire colonization stick is a bad rap for all nations that did so. One can argue “twer the times”. But that doesn’t change that it was atrocious.
But the whole “who was worst” is an odd thing right?
Going into another country and wrecking their shit is a scuffed move. We might not have done it personally, but anyone going “oooh we weren’t that bad” makes my head tilt in a “huuur?”
Godverdomme leopold de 2de
correction , it was a free state of king leopold
Everybody always forgets the VOC.
And decades later, biggest international incident involving us was Belgian soldiers roasting a black person over a fire …