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A number of white Brits have told me over the years that they feel they can't comment on majoritarian or caste violence in India 'because we colonised there.'

That is, quite simply, wrong. Silence or abetment is not reparation. One historical wrong does not wipe out another.

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It's quite easy to kill nearly 25K people and 12K children accidentally & then film yourself dancing on their corpses

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Do citizens of Germany generally understand that even their allies think of their nation primarily as a historical agent of Nazism, & even/especially when they run into support genocide by others as some kind of twisted reparations, nobody is fooled? I'm guessing not.

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One big difference, though, is there is no history of grave communal suffering in the former that could even be used as some kind of misguided moral leverage.

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'The West' & 500 years of genocide, extraction, & enslavement are co-constitutive. Despite challenges, that reality has yet to begin to recede. In part, it survives as it consolidated, through complicity.

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Well, it should feel pretty shitty to wipe out other human beings in these numbers. We do know that perpetrators are haunted but they are not the victims here.

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It should be added that Keir isn't the only hypocrite in this department. The extent to which Palestine has been failed by its ostensible allies & neighbours is at the heart of the story.

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So far out of his depth and flip-flopping day to day. Just a few days ago, with his usual impeccable timing, he dropped Labour’s commitment to recognise a Palestinian state, suggested exactly that Palestinian statehood was in the gift of others, including Israel. A weathervane!

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