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Part Two: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
This is Part Two of, 'King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard.' Robert is joined again by Andrew Ti (Yo, Is This Racist?) and they continue discuss the evil actions of King Leopold II of Belgium.
Original Air Date: June 14, 2018
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A movie needs to be made about Leopold II showing people how horrible he was. Maybe starring....Adam Driver?
I'd watch it.
I don't know.... Adam Driver has a chin. What you need is an actor who plays the "seems nice, but it's only an illusion" type of character very well. You need someone like Kevin Spacey sadly... art imitating life right there.
Hearing about how the Belgiums are slowly removing the statues is a great step in the correct direction. Slow, begrudging steps, but steps.
This was a really neat framing to his story
In that same vein to your point toward the end there about how slavery didn't end in the late 18th Century, and how Western people still benefited from forced labour in many ways deep into the 20th Century - slavery wasn't outlawed in the USA until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor during WWII. Taking new slaves was outlawed, and eventually so was the importing of slaves from other countries, but for a very, _very_ long time it was still totally fine to _have_ slaves until the USA decided it'd be a 'bad look' internationally if they entered the War on the justification that they wanted to end Japan's imperialist streak and free the slaves they kept; if lots of people inside of the USA still practiced slavery and slavery-adjacent things.
Aside from the actual thing actually called slavery, there were a number of legal schemes concocted that achieved practically the same goal - making nonwhite people work themselves to death for free under threat of violence for their entire lives - such as sharecropping; but also much of the criminal justice system was geared toward incarcerating poor and nonwhite people so they could be sent to perform forced labour on a rich white man's farmstead, and to ensuring that they'd be either kept 'in debt' forever, or immediately reincarcerated upon release. Most of the 'haha funny silly' highly specific archaic laws you might see listicles on the internet about, were actually laws designed to target highly specific subgroups of the population (like poor and nonwhite people) so they could be captured and sent into legally distinct slavery.
Now you might think, "well okay then maybe forced labour _actually_ ended in the USA in the 1940s" and I wouldn't fault you for believing that (especially since I just told you more or less exactly that), but allow me to point you toward the prison-industrial complex, in which incarcerated 'criminals' are 'encouraged' to 'build vocational skills' by performing menial labour rich white people don't want to do, and let me also point out how people in the USA that are thrown in prison are disproportionally vastly pretty much any colour but white.
To a very real extent, slavery and colonialism in the USA still exist, it's just got a shiny new name plaque.
If you'd like to learn more about that whole story, most of my knowledge on the topic (because, tragically, scant few people are willing to just openly discuss it) comes from an excellent video essay/docu piece by Knowing Better, here on YT. I strongly recommend it if you're in the mood to get upset at a whole lotta bastards but don't want to hear Robert's nasal whining voice for another two hours (just kidding love you Robert
What are you rambling on about? Did you even go to college?
@@christophereichten9005 Maybe go find that Knowing Better piece, see what I'm basing my "ramblings" on, instead of dismissing it out of hand and getting all elitist on me. I don't appreciate that kind of disrespect.
@@Zappygunshot I don’t care what you deserve or respect.
@@Zappygunshot You can bend over and take it
@@christophereichten9005 how very edgy, I like it!
Just a quick question though: why are you here? You don't seem to be enjoying yourself very much, so why stick around and reply - twice no less - to someone you supposedly care very little about?
If you're not having a good time, well, nobody's forcing you to stay and talk to me. You're free to go.
At the risk of getting presumptuous, are you perhaps still here because there's a part of you that wants to understand?
In that case, I'll refer you again to the Knowing Better piece, called _The Part of History You've Always Skipped | Neoslavery._ It's very well-sourced and presented, it'll teach you a lot about history (and current-day events) that aren't talked about very much because it's embarrassing to white people.
So he did die days after marrying Caroline. She could have poisoned him
It’s because she’s a commoner
Nobody gets away with anything. Either in this life ….. or the next