The Truth About Colonialism with Nigel Biggar

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  @triggerpod · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

  WATCH exclusive bonus content where <b>Nigel</b> answers audience questions. <br>CLICK the link: <a href="https://triggernometry.locals.com/">https://triggernometry.locals.com/ </a><br>CHAPTERS 👇<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU">00:00</a> Intro <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU&amp;t=100">01:40</a> The Case Nigel Makes in His New Book <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU&amp;t=293">04:53</a> What Are Empires &amp; Why Do They Exist? <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU&amp;t=546">09:06</a> The Way History is Discussed Today <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU&amp;t=775">12:55</a> Slavery in the British Empire <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU&amp;t=1132">18:52</a> The Transportation of Slaves <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU&amp;t=1358">22:38</a> Should we Sympathise with Critics of the British Empire? <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU&amp;t=1611">26:51</a> Society’s Warped View of History <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU&amp;t=2039">33:59</a> Nigel’s Thoughts on Western Intervention <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU&amp;t=2272">37:52</a> How Many of Nigel’s Ideas Come From Academia? <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU&amp;t=2576">42:56</a> Sponsor Message: Locals <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU&amp;t=2714">45:14</a> Why Legitimate Analysis of the British Empire Gets Cancelled <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU&amp;t=3198">53:18</a> When Publishers Decide Certain Books are ‘Unacceptable’ <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQ7uteBFWU&amp;t=3761">1:02:41</a> What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?

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  @orboakin8074 · 3 years ago

  As a Nigerian, my opinion on colonialism will be more nuanced than that of most westerners. On one hand, it was brutal in some ways but on the other it did play a huge role in bringing much of Africa into the modern age via introduction of modern tech, medicine, western education, and nation building. My country literally wouldn&apos;t exist without the British. For all the issues we face, most of us wouldn&apos;t ever dream of not having a country of our own.<br><br>Also, one major good it did was abolish slavery. I cannot be &nbsp;more thankful for the British using their naval power and economic might to suppress the slave trade in Africa. Oh, I know they partook in it for a time, themselves, but it existed here long before whites ever came to Africa. Even my own ancestors of the Edo kingdom were slavers. What makes the British different is that unlike other regional African and Arab powers, they had the cultural &amp; religious framework, wisdom, humanity and courage to actually stop the evil of slavery even at huge cost to their economy.

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  @liamwinter4512 · 3 years ago

  We are vastly outnumbered by the willfully ignorant.

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  @Kyniel · 3 years ago

  If our confidence in Western values is shaken then we hesitate to defend them. Do we still meaningfully hold our governments to account? Are they still truly limited by the law?<br>We should stop obsessing over the failures of the past and start recognising that the modern West has been betraying its own values. Instead of taking a critical look at our history, we should take a critical look at our present. We should not stand in judgement of our forefathers - we should consider how they would judge us.

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  @TheSaneMillennial · 3 years ago

  This is happening because of Freirean praxis which made world wide. In Brazil we are taught that Brazil (And Latin America) is poor because of European colonialism. I was sent to the principal’s office and suspended in 7th grade (1997) because I asked about the slave trade ending in America and England but continuing in Brazil. I got 4 days suspension for “Disturbing students who wanted to learn.”

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  @hankhooper1637 · 3 years ago

  William Wilberforce, member of parliament, who was the leading force for ending slavery in the British empire. Great man.

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  @pauldow72 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m going to buy this not just because it sounds like an interesting but to piss off the publisher that refused to take it on.

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  @MelEg90 · 3 years ago

  Thomas sowell series about this topic, conquest and cultures, migration and cultures, race sns cultures really is good too.

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  @angelaharvey2034 · 3 years ago

  I too am shocked that a publisher would think that Nigel Biggar&apos;s book would be unfavourable in respect of public feelings (which members of the public?) - absolutely would not agree, &nbsp;I bought the book a few weeks ago and it is an excellent book. Pleased to see his book is selling well!

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  @danielleal1037 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Among the examples of ignorance or deliberate malfeasance in the debate over the slave trade and colonialism is that the left in general is 100% onboard with the notion that the Arab slave trade, where the castration of every African male to be sent to the Middle East had a 90% mortality rate among those captured, shouldn’t be either discussed or regarded as a big deal. In a similar manner, there’s not a peep about the fact that the first of those nearly universally demonized Crusades was preceded by more than 400 years of islamic imperialistic jihad. <br><br>Such topics must be kept off-limits to discussion, lest they could lead to the inevitable and well-deserved crumbling of the shaky foundations of the houses of lies upon which many leftist narratives have been built upon.

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  @LA-kc7ev · 3 years ago

  It is rather startling to me that in the West &apos;history&apos; is reduced to &apos;colonialism&apos; and &apos;whiteness&apos;, and these last to slavery. The events of history, the characteristics of the world&apos;s civilizations; their art, the history of ideas, religions, are filled with riches, errors, beauty, brilliance, horrors, courage, about which most today know nothing. This will be to our peril, especially in the West.

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  @quercus21 · 3 years ago

  I bought Nigel Biggar’s new book on Audible. I’ll buy the paperback version as well. As a Brit with a Gujarati wife, who’s father fled Uganda, &nbsp;Mother left Kenya and ended up in England. i’ve found myself quite interested in India, it’s history and the impact of colonialism. I’ve also spent several Months traveling all over India and meeting people along the way. My in-laws have spoken about What it was like growing up in Africa. Ten years ago we visited Nakuru where her mother grew up. She couldn’t believe how much it had changed from when the British were there. I have no doubt about the extent to which the historical revisionism of the west has been maligned.

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