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in your views now about how we need to use very specific language about, for example, the british empire. you call it a wilful, unapologetic exercise in white racial supremacy. britain was dehumanising black people on a super industrial scale. but i also say empire didn t start out as that. it didn t start out as a wilfully racist thing. it happened in the 19th century when britain suddenly found itself ruling a quarter of the planet and noticed that they were white and almost all the people they were ruling over were brown. and there were all these weird ideas to do with racial science that were emerging, and it turned into a proudly white supremacist exercise. but that was pretty much in the 19th century. it wasn t for the whole history. right. but, you know, there are a lot of people watching this around britain who will be finding that language hard to stomach. yeah, i think there s an amnesia about that. i think because we beat the evil, racist germans in world war ii and we abo
but that was pretty much in the 19th century. it wasn t for the whole history. right. but, you know, there are a lot of people watching this around britain who will be finding that language hard to stomach. yeah, i think there s an amnesia about that. i think because we beat the evil, racist germans in world war ii and we abolished slavery, there s an idea that we are beyond racism in this country. but i think we have institutional racism in this country because our society was built on the racist institution of british empire. and again, words matter. you use the word genocide to talk about certain times, certain incidents in the british empire story. you re very sure? you really think it meets that standard of genocide? absolutely. the tasmanian genocide every historian i consulted called it that, and, actually, it was considered such a pure genocide it was used as an example when we were developing international laws about genocide. it was the example that people went to. and ye
i suppose the question then is what sathnam sanghera would teach, because i look at your writings, including empire land, but yourjournalism as well, and you are very trenchant in your views now about how we need to use very specific language about, for example, the british empire. you call it a wilful, unapologetic exercise in white racial supremacy. britain was dehumanising black people on a super industrial scale. but i also say empire didn t start out as that. it didn t start out as a wilfully racist thing. it happened in the 19th century when britain suddenly found itself ruling a quarter of the planet and noticed that they were white and almost all the people they were ruling over were brown. and there were all these weird ideas to do with racial science that were emerging, and it turned into a proudly white supremacist exercise. but that was pretty much in the 19th century. it wasn t for the whole history. right. but, you know, there are a lot of people watching this around br
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