This is rather a colonial narrative. Do you think the fighting would've lasted as long if the British never colonized that area?
Samsuma
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It doesn't really matter what you and I think. The wider public, as well as this community, recognizes that as a meme.
Here, have a look at many such examples of the same format:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fake-news-article-screenshots
There is no stringent definition of what a meme is or can be, despite what Merriam Webbster wants you to think. That there's a meme, plain and simple.
What is it, if not a meme?
libs really see themselves as valiant heroes when they needlessly play semantics on the topic of genocide.
And prior.
Where is this excerpt from? Would love to consoom more, it hits the nail on the head..
istg either libs purposefully misunderstand this, or fully believe in the "mixed economy" mythology.
But hey, as long as the "civilized world" is fully stocked on coffee, avocados, cocoa, etc....
It's the manufacturing of consent at work in real-time. To these loonies, history always resets at some "boomerang" event (9/11, oct 7th, etc..), which is used and abused as justifications to maintain status quo (western interventionism).
I think I've said this elsewhere but as long as they're not on the receiving end of forever wars/genocides, it'll never dawn on them how privileged they are to say whatever asinine bs without remorse or consequence (they get straight up rewarded for it).
Honestly I don't get why you engage with them, I would've lost my sanity the moment some Western chauvinist tried to sell people on Western-installed puppets with appeal to ahistorism. Props to you though for persevering.
Of course the situation might've been different. You wouldn't have dumb needless animosity on sectarian lines as they do today. Understand that by saying dumb shit like "The fighting would've happened anyway!" serves two purposes: a) to minimize the depravity of the British, the British Raj and colonialism in general and b) assumes that clashes on the basis of sectarianism is an inevitable pathway. Btw, partitioning is a tried-and-tested, colonial "divide and conquer" tactic.
Point is, a lot more lives could've been spared had it not been for colonialism that plagued the area, this is indisputable.