Why should Britain pay reparations to her former colonies?

I find this idea absurd. What exactly are we paying them for? The British Empire did some pretty questionable things, but we were saints compared to, for instance, the French. It's of no coincidence that all of Africa's top economies (Nigeria, Egypt, S.A and Ghana) are all ex-British posessions. Meanwhile - look at France's former colonies like Syria, Lebanon, Mali etc which are all in chaos. Whilst Britain did participate in the slave trade initally, through colonising Africa, it actually stopped the slave trade, as other groups like the Arabs would have enslaved the natives instead. The whole idea of this, along with say, taking down statues doesn't help black people. If you want to help black people, why not tackle the knife crime epidemic in cities like London, or help them out of poverty? The people in the former British colonies aren't living in absolute poverty, their economies are pretty good, with Nigeria Africa's biggest economy, and it will become even bigger. Colonialism wasn't a uniquely British thing, basically every society has colonised some place at some point. It was the norm. Not saying its right, but if we pay reparations, then maybe Italy should pay reparations for the Romans conquering Europe, Africa and Asia, or maybe Spain should pay reparations for colonising the Americas, or maybe the Greeks should pay reparations for the conquests of Alexander the Great.

Britain enacted extremely racist policies throughtout the world, committed genocides in Africa and India, and generally prevented the development of many nations across the globe taking the wealth for themselves. They absolutely should pay reparations for the harm caused not just to former colonies but to BAME individuals residing in the UK where racial inequality is rife.

There is no point in the british public paying out large amounts of money just because of white guilt/ self loathing and a mad dash to appear as anti-rascit as possible without actually doing anything useful.

Many non-white individuals came to the UK by choice/ their ancestors did and not as a result of slavery.
You are completely deluded if you believe that paying non-white individuals money for being non-white would end racism. It would resulting in two things:

A huge increase in racial tension between communities, this brings with it an increase in hate crimes.
A huge growth in support for awful groups like The BNP, The National Front and other racist organisations. It would be the 'I told you so' moment.

Britain enacted extremely racist policies throughtout the world, committed genocides in Africa and India, and generally prevented the development of many nations across the globe taking the wealth for themselves. They absolutely should pay reparations for the harm caused not just to former colonies but to BAME individuals residing in the UK where racial inequality is rife.

Britain enacted extremely racist policies throughtout the world, committed genocides in Africa and India, and generally prevented the development of many nations across the globe taking the wealth for themselves. They absolutely should pay reparations for the harm caused not just to former colonies but to BAME individuals residing in the UK where racial inequality is rife.

How could Britain prevent the development of "many nations" when these nations literally didn't even exist then. I'm sure BAME (a term i hate) people would much rather than just paying them off , we actually make useful policies to help them? Also, name me these genocides. Britain killed a lot of people, but genocide? It's debatable. There has to be clear intention to wipe out a population through genocide. As I said, the british weren't angels, but the French were on another level.

Many non-white individuals came to the UK by choice/ their ancestors did and not as a result of slavery.
You are completely deluded if you believe that paying non-white individuals money for being non-white would end racism. It would resulting in two things:

A huge increase in racial tension between communities, this brings with it an increase in hate crimes.
A huge growth in support for awful groups like The BNP, The National Front and other racist organisations. It would be the 'I told you so' moment.

If money could make amends the harms that are currently being done to non-Whites, does that imply that this is actually a class issue?

You are also assuming that all non-Whites uniformly suffer harms as a result of their skin colour. Some demographics, from an economic and eductional standpoint do extremely well.

The British commited several genocides: 1) The Bengal famine which killed several millions of Indians deliverately under Churchill (the man was a mass murderer). 2) The genocide of the Irish - during the potato famine Irish exports to Britain were at an all time high, it was a targeted starvation and 3) The British in Kenya under Churchill had concentration camps where they killed millions.

Just proves the point where the atrocities commited by the British empire is simply not taught or glossed over in schools. White people MUST be taught the horrific actions of their ancestors that they have benefitted from, and what they can do to make it up to BAME people.

Monetary reparations should be offered alongside a range of other community building programs for BAME communities. 1) Invest in Black communities and Black owned buisnesses, with tax breaks offered to any Black owned business and to any corporations with at least 50%+ BAME board members. 2) Decolonise the curriculums in schools and universities away from rigid whiteness, western based thinking and move towards a holistic education including the perspectives of BAME people and Black cultures. 3) Introduce mandatory weekly diversity and antiracist trainings at all companies, schools and universities.

Class is just one intersection of the privilege heirarchy. White working class kids still have the opportunities to succeed purely based on their race that are denied to BAME people. That they do not do well in school is due to them squandering their own privilege, not due to discrimination that BAME people face every day.

Just proves the point where the atrocities commited by the British empire is simply not taught or glossed over in schools. White people MUST be taught the horrific actions of their ancestors that they have benefitted from, and what they can do to make it up to BAME people.

The British commited several genocides: 1) The Bengal famine which killed several millions of Indians deliverately under Churchill (the man was a mass murderer). 2) The genocide of the Irish - during the potato famine Irish exports to Britain were at an all time high, it was a targeted starvation and 3) The British in Kenya under Churchill had concentration camps where they killed millions.

Just proves the point where the atrocities commited by the British empire is simply not taught or glossed over in schools. White people MUST be taught the horrific actions of their ancestors that they have benefitted from, and what they can do to make it up to BAME people.

What on earth does 'ridged whiteness' and 'western thinking' mean?
I think you have a disgusting attitude towards white working class. You don't like them because they don't confirm your world view.

Again, what makes you think that this isn't going to start a race war? How would you explain to the white working class who are struggling every day to put food on their table that they don't deserve repreations, despite being disenfranchised by the current system?


White people today are in no way responsible for their ancestors actions. Sorry to keep on hammering the point, but the white working class clearly aren't benefiting from said actions in any material way.

Should we also teach students about the horrors of political Islam, then pick out the Muslim students and tell them that their people are responsible for this?
Should we teach students about genocide, then tell students with a Chinese ethnic background that their people are responsible?

Let’s not forget about Europeans targeting the Jews. Always a good one to highlight to Germans that they were complicity in the Holocaust. French SS volunteers were the ones who defended hitlers bunker to the last. Holland’s very high per capita volunteer rate into the SS. Belgian volunteers fanaticism on the eastern front. Poland’s anti Semitic rhetoric that didn’t really help the Jews too much. Ukrainian nationalist etc etc etc.

There’s a general trend on the left of attacking the fabric of British society. This seems to be a continuing legacy of Stalin’s long reaching approach of using useful idiots in the 30s to undermine his enemies. It’s just carried on as these useful idiots didn’t really understand how they were getting manipulated.

They probably don't care because many Jews are white, so therefore it counters the narrative of white privilege/ intersectionality. In the exact same way that they hold a special disdain for the white working class, to be clear I am certainly not comparing the plight of the Jew's with that of the working class'.

The white Left cannot stand it's self- they perceive themselves as being their own enemy. This results in an inability to solve the actually problems that are occurring in our society.
You cannot allow large numbers of migrants into the county who believe in ideals that are completely at odds to British/ liberal values, then refuse to deal with the fallout because being perceived as not being racist is more important than protecting the liberty of white girls. It's sickening, but it's where our white self hatred leads us.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1367549420985852
Or this academic manifesto of hate self directed against white women. If you didn't realise you would assume that it had been written by a men's rights activist.