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Largely peaceful and voluntary dismantling. This is such an absurd rewriting of history and unbecoming of Danny Kruger who really should know better.
Here is a thread showing some peaceful and voluntary dismantling of the British empire. 1/ https://twitter.com/danny__kruger/status/1273509592195051520
Here is a thread showing some peaceful and voluntary dismantling of the British empire. 1/ https://twitter.com/danny__kruger/status/1273509592195051520
2/ The Battles of Lexington and Concord, generally accepted to be the start of the peaceful and voluntary dismantling of the British Empire.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord
Arab Revolt, 1929
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots
Coupled with Jewish insurgent campaigns by the Haganah, Irgun and outright terrorism by the Stern Gang
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots
Coupled with Jewish insurgent campaigns by the Haganah, Irgun and outright terrorism by the Stern Gang
10/ Indian Independence
Though Gandhi himself led non-violent civil disobedience, the efforts to suppress independence on the part of the British authorities were not peaceful.
Also Subhas Chandra Bose led a violent anti-British movement during WW2
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_independence_movement
Though Gandhi himself led non-violent civil disobedience, the efforts to suppress independence on the part of the British authorities were not peaceful.
Also Subhas Chandra Bose led a violent anti-British movement during WW2
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_independence_movement
12/ Zimbabwean independence
(Ian Smith did not take kindly to it, declaring UDI and sparking a civil war against the ZANU and ZAPU movements)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Zimbabwe
(Ian Smith did not take kindly to it, declaring UDI and sparking a civil war against the ZANU and ZAPU movements)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Zimbabwe
13/ These asre just a few examples. While it’s reasonable to point out that the British wasn’t the only empire, it was indeed what everyone did at the time. It’s also possible to argue that the record of empire was mixed.
14/ And that it brought benefits to the colonised peoples as well as costs, and that reasonable people can disagree about them and discuss them in their context rather than by today’s standards or refracted through simplistic anti-colonial ideology.
15/ Nevertheless, Britain, like other imperial powers, acquired its empire by force and held onto it as long as it could by force, trashing the very principles the empire’s defenders (correctly) say were its chief benefit.
It was not dismantled peacefully & voluntarily. ENDS
It was not dismantled peacefully & voluntarily. ENDS
