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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's merely vassalized, not dead and buried. The UK is still imperialist.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what that matters for the topic at hand.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The British Empire is neither gone nor forgotten.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The whole point was if they're going to be viewed worse than Nazi Germany. Do you feel like there's a point where the empire is gone and people will switch to thinking of it worse than Nazi Germany?

It hasn't happened yet and I don't see it happening tbh.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I did say "most" in the first comment

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Most Europeans, maybe, not most people.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Definitely most Europeans and Westerners, but I meant most people. But I don't think there's any actual numbers or that so not much sense to get into an argument about it

[–] vritrahan@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Come to a country that was colonised by the British, and you'll see a very different opinion. And there's far more of us than white people.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The global south tends to not like the north as much.

[–] DeepSpace9mm@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

That's the most concise geopolitical overview I've seen.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 1 points 5 days ago
[–] DeepSpace9mm@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Is it possible that you can't see the opinion changing because it is a very slow process that you are only living through a portion of? I've noticed more people mentioning the Bengal famine when Churchill is lionized, for example.