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GatoGordo

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10. Your post is misleading.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 12, 2019, 11:55 AM

Feb 2019

A working group isn't an entity.

If a working group within the Democratic Party suggests a platform change, does that mean the Democratic Party embraces such change?

As far as King Leopold is concerned, he was a scumbag of the highest order. Rightly vilified. But he was a king, not an elected official. Ergo, his vile antics hardly reflect the culpability of the people of Belgium. They didn't elect him. God ordained him.

Now, if you want to talk culpability, perhaps "elected" despots such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao... these nations can and should be held to that standard? Responsible for the deaths of over 100,000,000 people and the misery of billions of others is pretty grievous.

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UN: Belgium must apologize for colonialism, face its racism [View all] Judi Lynn Feb 2019 OP

you can say the same thing about other colonial powers jay1124 Feb 2019 #1

Leopold was a monster who should be treated like Hitler and Pol Pot dalton99a Feb 2019 #2

100% agree, and I don't know how he gets a pass obamanut2012 Feb 2019 #13

Obscure UN "working group" isn't the UN GatoGordo Feb 2019 #3

I just looked it up, and you are totally wrong. Judi Lynn Feb 2019 #4

I think it's not unreasonable to make a distinction between "a UN working group" and "the UN." Jedi Guy Feb 2019 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author Judi Lynn Feb 2019 #7

Your post is misleading. GatoGordo Feb 2019 #10

Sorry, your post doesn't make a bit of sense to me. Judi Lynn Feb 2019 #17

Par for the course GatoGordo Feb 2019 #18

I just watched a Parts Unknown rerun last night and BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #5

Ditto, saw that, and more recently about Belgium. elleng Feb 2019 #8

A few other countries got some explaining to do. JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2019 #9

I read about this twenty years ago. Aristus Feb 2019 #11

Remember King Leopold? Genocide, Racism, Slavery and the Influence of Belgium in the DRC Judi Lynn Feb 2019 #12

+1. Evil greed on an industrial scale dalton99a Feb 2019 #15

It's a vision from hell. It takes a lot of evil to make people treat other people like that. Judi Lynn Feb 2019 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Feb 2019 #14