• DessertStorms
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    603 months ago

    They didn’t just create the borders, but also actively pitted the different local groups in each region, all over the globe, against each other to keep them from joining forces against the colonisers and imperialists, so very deliberate war mongering.

    Similar tactics are used today in the form of “culture wars” and institutional and systemic bigotry - we (the working class, the majority of the population) are divided and pitted against each other by those who want to keep us from joining forces and turning on them.

    • @BestBouclettes
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      3 months ago

      And did pretty much the same thing with Africa

      • @Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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        143 months ago

        Not pretty much, they literally did that. The Rwandan genocide (probably the most well known, next to Darfur) was the direct result of Belgian colonialism and racism.

        • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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          73 months ago

          It can also be argued that Belgian predatory colonialism at least facilitated the emergence of HIV

      • DessertStorms
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        63 months ago

        Yes, that’s why I said

        the different local groups in each region, all over the globe