When you did too much of the white powder and accidentally tweet the message of your lawyer saying he's ashamed of you and will not represent you any longer 🤡 (tweet deleted).
Interesting that some of those supporting #tommyrobinson say they are #hindus . There is a lot going on in the #uk just now and a lot of #disinformation out there. Best to be cautious and keep the temperature down as far as possible.
Rhetoric is so easy, when you don't have to consider all the facts.
> back when the Nazis were doing their thing
Then, nobody in the colonies knew what Nazism was. India was a demilitarized colony, whose natives were looking to push the colonizer out and trying to learn from the enemy's enemy.
The natives couldn't in time; by the time a native army started taking back the land from the east with Japanese support during WW2, the colonizer stole all the grain to feed own troops, resulting in the Bengal famine killing more people (and livestock) than in Auschwitz and in Hiroshima combined.
@tetrislife @violetmadder @N_Henin
I should add also that #indian #nationalist #leaders such as #subhaschandrabose were well aware of #nazi ideology. #bose - who accepted #german support - objected strongly to #antisemitism and ended up working with #japan instead. It was not just #bose - other mainstream #nationalist leaders such as #jawaharlalnehru took a consistently #antifascist line at the time.
This is a quite extraordinary piece of misrepresentation.
Why would you even think natives of a colony would volunteer to fight for the colonizer!
The British banned martial arts training, demilitarizing an active populace. It then conscripted people, made them fight its wars, going back to the Boer war 250 years ago. Natives looked to the enemy's enemy.
And why would you think India needed grain, when it has traditionally been an exporter! Bengal is a granary, where do you think its grain had gone!
@tetrislife @violetmadder @N_Henin
There is no further point in discussing things with someone who chooses to ignore plain established facts - such as the fact the Boer War happened in 1899 not 1774!
Let alone the fact that #britain never conscripted people in its #empire - not even #ireland - where a plan to do so in 1918 destroyed what remained of constitutional nationalism.
Trying to teach the native his history? Look up the Madras regiment of the Indian army, founded about 250 years ago. Natives of colonies fighting for the colonizer goes back atleast till the Boer war.
Why would you think anybody would volunteer to fight the colonizer's wars! So, the colonizer didn't force its subjects to fight for it, didn't redirect agriculture to its own ends, and so on? Yeah, lets take the colonizer's history as gospel, even if it flies in the face of common sense.
@tetrislife @violetmadder @N_Henin
This is a quite extraordinary piece of misrepresentation. So far from being a demilitarised colony #india provided large numbers of volunteers for the #britishimperialforces in both world wars . The causes of the #bengalfamine are best set out by #amartyasen - who lived through it . Not enough was done quickly enough to avert it - and the problem was more to do with both a shortage of shipping worldwide and competition for food within the native population.