Watch a swarm of drones autonomously track a human through a dense forestGsus4@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.world – 203 points – 1 years agotheverge.com64Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent comment China committed genocide against Uyghurs, independent tribunal rules https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-59595952 UK is pretty far from perfect but to suggest we have “just as dubious morals” as China is categorically wrong. to suggest we have “just as dubious morals” as China is categorically wrong. Only if you have a wilfully short memory and/or are wilfully ignorant of the atrocities that came with far reaching British imperialism (never mind completely ignoring the news, we have camps, hundreds of asylum seeking children disappearing, disabled people being quietly killed off, trans people having their rights removed and so on and so forth never mind the "run of the mill" systemic racism sexism queerphobia ableism classism and so on, and pretending these aren't all active stages of fascism is helping normalise it) With the internet at your fingertips there is no excuse: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-transatlantic-slave-trade-records/ https://historyindoors.co.uk/britains-dark-past-the-atrocities-of-the-british-empire-and-its-legacy-today/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/worst-atrocities-british-empire-amritsar-boer-war-concentration-camp-mau-mau-a6821756.html https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/the-british-empire-was-much-worse-than-you-realize-caroline-elkinss-legacy-of-violence1 more...
China committed genocide against Uyghurs, independent tribunal rules https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-59595952 UK is pretty far from perfect but to suggest we have “just as dubious morals” as China is categorically wrong. to suggest we have “just as dubious morals” as China is categorically wrong. Only if you have a wilfully short memory and/or are wilfully ignorant of the atrocities that came with far reaching British imperialism (never mind completely ignoring the news, we have camps, hundreds of asylum seeking children disappearing, disabled people being quietly killed off, trans people having their rights removed and so on and so forth never mind the "run of the mill" systemic racism sexism queerphobia ableism classism and so on, and pretending these aren't all active stages of fascism is helping normalise it) With the internet at your fingertips there is no excuse: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-transatlantic-slave-trade-records/ https://historyindoors.co.uk/britains-dark-past-the-atrocities-of-the-british-empire-and-its-legacy-today/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/worst-atrocities-british-empire-amritsar-boer-war-concentration-camp-mau-mau-a6821756.html https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/the-british-empire-was-much-worse-than-you-realize-caroline-elkinss-legacy-of-violence1 more...
to suggest we have “just as dubious morals” as China is categorically wrong. Only if you have a wilfully short memory and/or are wilfully ignorant of the atrocities that came with far reaching British imperialism (never mind completely ignoring the news, we have camps, hundreds of asylum seeking children disappearing, disabled people being quietly killed off, trans people having their rights removed and so on and so forth never mind the "run of the mill" systemic racism sexism queerphobia ableism classism and so on, and pretending these aren't all active stages of fascism is helping normalise it) With the internet at your fingertips there is no excuse: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-transatlantic-slave-trade-records/ https://historyindoors.co.uk/britains-dark-past-the-atrocities-of-the-british-empire-and-its-legacy-today/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/worst-atrocities-british-empire-amritsar-boer-war-concentration-camp-mau-mau-a6821756.html https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/the-british-empire-was-much-worse-than-you-realize-caroline-elkinss-legacy-of-violence
UK is pretty far from perfect but to suggest we have “just as dubious morals” as China is categorically wrong.
Only if you have a wilfully short memory and/or are wilfully ignorant of the atrocities that came with far reaching British imperialism (never mind completely ignoring the news, we have camps, hundreds of asylum seeking children disappearing, disabled people being quietly killed off, trans people having their rights removed and so on and so forth never mind the "run of the mill" systemic racism sexism queerphobia ableism classism and so on, and pretending these aren't all active stages of fascism is helping normalise it)
With the internet at your fingertips there is no excuse:
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-transatlantic-slave-trade-records/
https://historyindoors.co.uk/britains-dark-past-the-atrocities-of-the-british-empire-and-its-legacy-today/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/worst-atrocities-british-empire-amritsar-boer-war-concentration-camp-mau-mau-a6821756.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/the-british-empire-was-much-worse-than-you-realize-caroline-elkinss-legacy-of-violence