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   @TheArmchairHistorian

   July 3, 2020 at 5:21 pm

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   @hampter8056

   May 28, 2023 at 7:38 am

   They just had to ensure that wight man on top

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   @andrewjoyce6634

   June 8, 2023 at 1:25 am

   Yes, please do all the empires on all the continents and all the anti-colonial resistance movements!

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   @Genena.My.G

   June 8, 2023 at 3:01 pm

   That is why all the time they are in suffer and they will go tell people you need help before the crime done

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   @dantezsimiyu9725

   June 11, 2023 at 7:34 am

   and how comes you didnt cover the British in east Africa under the BEAC and how they were obsessed with the source of the nile

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   @jashuakg

   June 14, 2023 at 12:09 pm

   im africa n aswell and thanks for the vid

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   @user-wv1pj6wh4h

   June 22, 2023 at 6:26 pm

   now uk is colonized by africans…and sunaks…

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   @BernddasBrotB7

   June 26, 2023 at 4:58 pm

   Disappointed by the coverage of the Boer Wars, which fails to appreciate the moral greys of the situation, and to a degree some other instances of bias and misinformation. The British intervention to stop the slave trade in Dahomey was overlooked, for example of bias.
   As for misinformation, the Spanish used camps in Cuba prior to the Second Boer War, albeit on a smaller scale once Lord Kitchener's ruthless anti-insurgency tactics were employed, which caused the dangerous ballooning of camp populations in order to (incompetently) protect the displaced civilians.

   Incompetence is the key word here. The British were not out to eradicate the Boers, nor did they use them as slave labour to my knowledge, they were simply ruthless in their strategy to defeat the insurgents (who frequently used farmhouses as military staging posts), vastly underestimated the humanitarian effort required to implement Kitchener's plan without loss of life and were too slow in response once the situation became apparent. 'Squalor equals disease' should have been foreseen, as should the catalysation of disease caused by poor nutrition.
   The higher rate of native African loss of life is obviously down to racism by the British resulting in lower priority for amenities once reforms began to be instituted to alleviate the humanitarian crisis, however. That, specifically, is where attributions of 'deliberate neglect' should lie.

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   @esoislife9961

   July 4, 2023 at 7:43 am

   People didn't do progressive ideology back then. Life was hard and cheap it was kill or be killed. Weakness was despised and a death sentence.

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    @stuartturner6617

    July 15, 2023 at 10:56 am

    Now tell us all about American exploitation and genocide in Africa I look forward to that One,and there genocide in the middle east also ,the Philippines ????
    Drone strikes anyone ??

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    @cedricnicholson7446

    July 15, 2023 at 4:21 pm

    I would like to see Africa restored to it's cultural Glory. Hopefully it will become more united and quit giving it's sovereignty away to the Chinese, Russians and other foreign entity's. Give the land back to it's people like Zimbabwe did.

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    @justaneverydaycatiguess744

    July 16, 2023 at 6:10 pm

    britishers were really really naughty boys lol

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    @rautamiekka

    July 25, 2023 at 11:41 pm

    The Displate timestamp is fucked, it doesn't end where it should 😉

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    @blueberrymuffin1348

    July 30, 2023 at 8:50 pm

    Cecil Rhodes and King Leopold of Belgium only rival Hitler in terms of brutal savagery towards humanity.

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    @marcspardello1254

    August 11, 2023 at 12:51 pm

    It’s forever popular to highlight the egregious acts of the white Europeans and North Americans. A lot of these historians go out of his or her way to make sure their is awareness of how horrible the whites have been. All the white their guys are using a person’s skull as a mug! In his defense he did make mention of that twice. I am sure both sides were equally evil, anyone who is willing to go to war and to create that kind of desperation has a trace of pure evil in them.

    I think it is essential as the story or facts themselves are, to discuss the goings on of white imperialism. Doesn’t it seem like there is this bit of extra “see what we did, see how bad we are/once were as a people?” I just have this suspicion that onto those whom we behaved reprehensibly, they to had a hand in the aiding of these unspeakable acts. For example, black Africans helped bring their fellow blacks to port in order to be shipped off the continent into slavery. We (white dudes) we not the only ones behaving badly, however it has become fashionable it seems in these academic circles in the past decade to blame only ourselves.

    This post is about to get too long. I think I am disturbed by this historical-fashion-of-the-mind trend, since it gives ammunition to those who write about his or her enslaved ancestors of 160 years ago in this country that the whole darn thing was “our” fault. I heard an author on NPR who wrote about this very topic, that she and others African-Americans have had their families destroyed from slavery that occurred back when Lincoln was still upright. It has affected her emotionally that her great-great-great grandmother got sold off to a new master and lost her child and husband. While this is tragic and time alone does not make this right. It will forever be a sadness in the story of our country. The thing that frosts my flakes is that she did not once mention that her own people (speaking more globally, as she is a direct descendant of a black African family), played a part in the capture and transportation of this most heinous act. It was 100% the fault of whites. Connecting that with what is happening in these videos is that it seems like no one wants to talk about the whole truth. Just the parts that suit them. If we are attempting to use history to educate and learn from its stories, so that future persons understand how to improve our manmade racial impediments then is it not better to discuss the whole truth?

    The more we freely shame the white Europeans and North Americans for our insensitive behavior towards other groups of people of the world, the further we get away from the true narrative of how things came to pass. Then history is not useful at all other than replacing a magazine article while on the toilet. If history is to be used as a resource to improve let us be more sensible about belittling the group of people who made the Western world what it is today.

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    @Indy_Bendy

    August 23, 2023 at 5:01 pm

    British did a good job for a long time.

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    @apexxxx10

    August 28, 2023 at 7:58 am

    1:55 See the DOORKNOB at on the left side? Doorknobs in Europe? DOORKNOBS NO HAVE! Only DOORHANDLES! Case in point: This happened here i Thailand where American SCHLAGE DOORKNOBS were introduced in 1970/80s. American interior design imperialism! One of these damned DOORKNOBS made me once loose my whole Sunday breakfast. On a tray: Coffee, eggs, bacon, carrot juice landed on the Persian carpet! OK. Now, try to visualize. A DOORHANDLE I could have easily opened the door with my elbow! Our house in Bangkok. Here we have replaced all the Doorknobs, including the fancy ones with wood inlay. ‘The Armchair Historian’ – Keep Up the Good Work! I sure like you content and I have subscribed. Do you have a PODCAST? Johnny BikeSanooK! From sunny tropical Thailand.

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    @jigsaw2281

    August 31, 2023 at 5:27 am

    End of Europe 🎉🎉

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    @ishrendon6435

    September 4, 2023 at 7:39 pm

    Europeans are truly amazing 👏 😍 as a black man we all have to admire the ferocity amd ambition they had
    No doubt also the technological advances which my people didnt have to compete with European encroachment. Its sadly part of the world but it happens . I have no hatred towards the brits just admiration

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    @oliverbonganibalanda3296

    September 12, 2023 at 3:53 pm

    ADDER MLUNGU WEHISTORY DANKO

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    @jakerupp3840

    September 26, 2023 at 8:01 pm

    Can you do videos about the other european powers colonizing africa

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    @CautionCU

    October 3, 2023 at 1:54 pm

    My impression of colonial apologists, "Colonialism was good right? We enslaved you and you built a bridge for yourself." Anyways appreciated this video didn't sugar coat anything.

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    @Pogger927

    October 5, 2023 at 8:26 am

    RULE BRITTANIA!BRITTANIA RULE THE WORLD!!!
    The ashanti really deserved it tho.Cant get away after you have killed 3 british guys when they haven't do any significant damage to you.

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    @malpreece5008

    October 7, 2023 at 9:27 pm

    Don’t bother with this video, it has too much of a horrible histories vibe to it, just read/listen to ‘Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning’ (2023) by Nigel Biggar.

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    @LordBeauchamp1994

    October 12, 2023 at 9:58 pm

    Tell me you watched Taboo without telling me?? Lol the opening scene is straight out of the East India room on the show

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    @Aadam1948

    October 13, 2023 at 4:33 pm

    I condem the Apartheid Israel government. Stop the unlawfull killings in Palestine. Live and let others live.

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    @No_step_on_snake

    October 24, 2023 at 5:11 am

    PROUD TO BE BRITISH 🇬🇧

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    @ruthcharlie7752

    November 29, 2023 at 11:08 am

    He did not talk about east Africa

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    @poriflof

    December 19, 2023 at 1:56 am

    "150 British soldiers held off 4,000 native braves". The sentence is a bit funny, methinks brave would be more deserved by the 150 there.

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    @abubakarrsowe8746

    December 28, 2023 at 3:23 am

    I definitely want to know more about the colonization of Africa.

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    @AlchemistOfNirnroot

    January 14, 2024 at 7:39 pm

    They were not 'concentration camps'…

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    @snoewatamel9953

    January 21, 2024 at 9:14 am

    The Dutch are ruthless and laid the foundation for Apartheid. Viva EFF viva. And let’s make Julius Malema the next president of Azania.

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    @ronaldgrove3283

    January 26, 2024 at 12:09 am

    🇬🇧 God Bless the English Empire !

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    @JLuisCastaneda

    January 31, 2024 at 7:10 pm

    This is way too emotionally charged and devoid of the cultural context of the time to be taken seriously.

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    @TellTheTruth_and_ShameTheDevil

    February 4, 2024 at 2:38 pm

    Describing the Ashanti as "natives" is a bit much. It is as if you'd fight Poles in the French Mediterranean coast and call the Poles natives.
    The Ashanti moved into this area not too long before the British arrived. So both parties were new to the terrain, and neither of them were native to it

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    @bendahara8284

    February 7, 2024 at 12:20 pm

    Its like playing in easy mode

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    @jayizzett

    March 3, 2024 at 6:15 am

    Bravo

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    @oliversherman2414

    March 8, 2024 at 3:02 pm

    As a Brit, I never learnt anything about British colonialism in school. I can't stand that some countries (including my own) won't acknowledge the bad parts of their past and only teaches the "good parts". This is one of the reasons I respect the German school system so much…. That being that they actually admit they did messed up stuff

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    @bentilsontube3547

    March 10, 2024 at 5:40 pm

    I'd like to thank you for acknowledging the conflicts between the Ashanti empire and the British. I just love the history of the Ashanti empire and their resistance against colonial powers like the British empire!

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    @nssmithtx1

    March 15, 2024 at 1:52 pm

    Love the 1ID poster. If you're gonna be one, be a Big Red One. #DutyFirst

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    @Ghostcall1914

    March 28, 2024 at 4:52 pm

    For you africans and black people,did you know that in liberia black people slaved other black people,did you know otoman empire murdered and killed a lot of people on the balkans ,did you know africans empires killed and murdered each other,for you colonialism and imperialism is just bad when it comes from white people

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    @michaelfishman6082

    April 11, 2024 at 9:19 am

    The weak should fear the strong.

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    @veryunusual126

    April 17, 2024 at 2:07 pm

    💩💩usa💩💩 british empire💩💩

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    @The_United_States_Of_America76

    April 22, 2024 at 12:57 pm

    Rule Brittania Brittania rules the world
    But not America

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    @merucrypoison296

    May 22, 2024 at 7:06 pm

    Gem thumbnail

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    @Mohamedistan_offical95

    May 23, 2024 at 12:04 pm

    Never ask a women her age.
    A man his salary.
    And what belgium did in the congo.

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