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hi41last Saturday at 6:55 PM3 repliesview on HN

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testdelacc1last Saturday at 7:14 PM

The Europeans left more than 50 years ago. In your weird world view, only Europeans have any agency. Their actions before the 1960s is why the Arab RSF is murdering black people in 2025, amirite? The Arabs have no agency of their own, they’re just instruments of the will of long dead European people.

There is always a choice! The choice the RSF made today is entirely on them. Don’t try to deflect that.

lukanlast Saturday at 7:03 PM

"However, those European countries haven’t acknowledged or apologized for what they have done."

Not completely and not for everything, but largely it is at least recognized. I mean, I learned about it and how bad it all was in a ordinary european school. What you say implies it is like in turkey, where they don't tell students in school what happened in Armenia. Or like in china, where even the knowledge gets removed. (I think Japan also largely choose not to reevaluate its glorious bloody empire past)

So blaming every war in Africa on the colonial past is maybe not helpful, when there have been wars before european involvement. And especially here, to me it seems a inner muslim/arab war. Different factions backed by different arabic states. UAE and Quatar. What exactly is the european involvment here?

random9749832last Saturday at 7:08 PM

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