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KellyCriteriontoday at 8:40 AM2 repliesview on HN

So "Germans are special in their racissm" because they had no "luck of such colonial empire"??

Im glad that this country didnt play a larger role in colonialism! Your sentence is the first I hear in decaded advocading for "if they had colonialism as well, it would be a much better country because then they wouldnt be racist"??

By the way - Poland or Hungary also had no "luck of colonial empire" - what about them? As well as tons of other European states?


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klausatoday at 9:14 AM

I didn't read that post as saying "there is no racism in France/Britain/Netherlands thanks to their past"; I understood it as "the _kind_ of racism there is _different_ than the one in Germany, for historical reasons".

That strikes me as... kind of true? Poland's issues with racism are also pretty different than in the countries mentioned.

mr_mitmtoday at 9:25 AM

Just FYI, it says "lack", not "luck"