#western values

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Palestinian children were prevented from going to school by razor wire and israeli soldiers — so they sat down and studied right in front of them (via AndreyX)

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"Europe is belaatedly discovering how unbelievably stupid it was to import millions of people from cultures that despise Western values and promote hatred toward the people who have let them in." – Thomas Sowell

Not just Europe.

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Western values.

The West still calls itself civilized.

Like yesterday, April 9, 1985, one of Europe’s worst monsters, King Leopold II of Belgium🇧🇪, was born.

During his rule, he declared Congo as his personal colonial possession and proceeded to commit horrific genocide upon the Congolese people.

8-10 million Congolese died during ‘personal rule’, with violence as a mechanism of organising production. Through mercenaries, prisons, forced starvation, and executions, Leopold II turned Congo into a concentration camp, using Congolese as the labour to extract vast profits from the rubber quotas imposed on the population.

The profits were used to build Belgium’s grand buildings and landmarks, while Congolese were exterminated systematically through forced labour, mass killings, and famine.

While the metropole of Belgium’s empire flourished, while Congo became an extraction machine. Workers who failed to meet the quotas were mutilated, having their hands cut off. These workers included children.

Villages were punished collectively. Women were held hostage until men delivered rubber. Failure meant mutilation, flogging, or execution. Terror was the incentive structure. Pain replaced wages.

The Congolese people never saw the profits, only the oppression of being used as slave labour. Belgium has still not offered a formal apology to the Congolese people for the genocidal atrocities committed against them…

Because doing so would acknowledge a fundamental truth; that European capitalism was not born from ‘innovation’, ‘free trade’, or ‘liberal values’, but through barbaric destruction of global south nations and the looting of their resources for profit.

The Kingdom of Belgium created a slave colony in Congo for 30 years. The government of Belgium ran the slave colony for another 40 years. The CIA assassinated Congo’s first popular leader Patrice Lumumba, and then installed another dictatorship for the next 30 years.

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Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757-1822) Teach the Ignorant, 1795 Fondazione Cariplo, Milano

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christianity is basically the OG leftist movement that got co-opted. rome converting to christianity was like if unions got super popular and amazon did an advertising campaign praising unions but changed none of their policies. like this weird “western civilization-christian values” stuff is just roman values. which was exactly what christianity was rebelling against.