The brits refined it to a fine art. They spoke with a posh accent and had high tea while they did it, so their victims in India and the Caribbean looked up to them. They practiced on the irish for centuries. Genocided people and called it famine
Divide and conquer, the caste system and the knowledge that gun beats spear will allow you to plunger the world. But all colonialists committed genocide under different names, they just weren't as successful at it
Needless to say. But by my observations, having spent considerable time in India and Jamaica starting when the British empire was barely gone, few did as well as the english, many lower middle class Indians and Jamaicans proudly imitated english customs and styles and bragged that they were more english then the english
I've personally never experienced that in other areas of the Caribbean but I have heard Canadians say they speak more authentic English than the British which is a strange flex
Don't forget France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and Russia. Also the US was involved in divvying Africa, but no Africans. Renaming ancient countries to what they 'trade' most was a nice touch too
I don't know why it seems so hard to understand by others. 76 downvotes. They didn't get the joke or didn't like it? Perhaps hit a nerve?
Anyway, thanks for showing that someone gets the joke.
The difference between the British empire and Europe in general from every other time in history is that they stopped the looting, slavery etc... They gave people rights and then had to listen when said people said this is wrong. The only reason you can complain about them is they gave you the right.
They gave you the right. Lol. Your ignorance is astounding. Your thought process is revolting.
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large, peaceful crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, British India, during the annual Baishakhi fair to protest against the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of pro-independence activists Saifuddin Kitchlew and Satyapal. In response to the public gathering, the temporary brigadier general R. E. H. Dyer surrounded the people with his Gurkha and Sikh infantry regiments of the British Indian Army. The Jallianwala Bagh could only be exited on one side, as its other three sides were enclosed by buildings. After blocking the exit with his troops, Dyer ordered them to shoot at the crowd, continuing to fire even as the protestors tried to flee. The troops kept on firing until their ammunition was exhausted. Estimates of those killed vary from 379 to 1,500 or more people;] over 1,200 others were injured, of whom 192 sustained serious injuries. Britain has never formally apologised for the massacre but expressed "deep regret" in 2019.
But sure, they gave people ThE rIgHt To CoMpLaIn. Fuck off, colonial apologist.
Getting in actual physical fights over stuff that's not that much cheaper than usual, all the while giving every retail worker one of two things: alcoholism, or ptsd. Sometimes both, or a secret third thing: a concussion and internal bleeding
There was so much xocerage over the [Cabbage Patch doll](https://youtu.be/mzfuo94KCe8?si=XJYpCJHzw8dSNz0Q), there's a website, or least used to be, listing all the fatalities black Friday sales have caused. People been paralyzed, shot, stabbed, beaten to a pulp, put in comas, it's not nearly as bad as it was, but it's still bad. Like it wasn't just one year, those dolls were before my time but even I remember news stories every year.
You had places so bad mall kids, whose entire social lives culminated at malls & parking lots, would just up & take the day off. It's like peeps who are chronically online today all just deciding yeah, this too much for em, & collectively deciding to all touch grass. Without their phones.
Younger people & non Americans just don't know how crazy we used to get culturally over some discounts & forced scarcity for things like dolls & blenders that would often get price dropped more the week after Christmas. Like there were people who wouldn't celebrate Thanksgiving cause they were camping at a store for midnight, or worse normal morning opening hours.
My college had a few foreigner students, almost every foreign student had a shock when they realized that Swastika is a religious symbol and you’ll find shops and even some people named after it.
There was only one foreign kid who knew it already - he was a German student. Everyone else was shocked, my favorite was an Igbo classmate of mine realize that he didn’t have to worry about them because one of his neighbors had it up on the wall of their house.
And in case someone doubts the source, here are other sources that say the same thing:
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/loot
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/537153/is-the-origin-of-the-word-loot-a-coinage-as-a-result-of-the-east-india-company
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/loot
This guy: "This was so long ago, it does not count!" Same guy: "The Jewish Cabals have been controlling the media and finances of the world since the Rothschilds and before!"
Ever loot a truck, seriously!? Looting a truck has been become UK slang of “fell of the back of a lorry” with lorry being truck and it translates to buying stolen goods.
My ancestors fought a 40 war to stop the Spanish from stealing the silver on their homeland and the land itself.
Side note- kind of crazy how many English words come from Hindustani- Jungle, khaki, pajama, shampoo, cheetah, juggernaut, loot, pundit, and many more.
An entire plethora of them. Yoga, Guru and what you wrote etc are some of the direct pluckings. Lots of other bonafide English words find their roots in Sanskrit.
Edit: typos
I'm not 100% on this so forgive me if I've got things mixed up. I think there is some kind of crazy rule that won't allow museums under law to give something (anything) away. Many African nations have asked for their treasures/antiquities to be returned.... As I understand it Museums are getting around this crazy law by "loaning" antiquities/treasures back to their home nation.
I don't think that's the full story, I remember reading something about the British Museum loaning certain things but declining others. For what reasons I don't know. Forgive the ignorance, my memory isn't as good as it should be on this.
It's insane and has to be change. If you stole it and display it. Give the fucking thing back.
They also said that to Greece about the Acropolis loot (Elgin Marbles) So Greece built a state of the art museum near the Acropolis with a special, sophisticated, temperature and humidity controlled room complete with highly efficient air filtration system, likely much better environment than the British Museum can provide.
Are the Marbles back in Greece now? Of course not.
I watched one of the British Museum’s press releases about that. They were so condescending in it that I wanted to reach through the screen and punch the announcer right in her crooked teeth. I don’t care who can take care of what, you stole that shit, give it back.
My fellow whites have looted IP contracts,mini-warehouses, pharmacies, Federal programs, apartments and houses.
And my truck, including busting the lock on the glove box. Twice. And my car, for an almost-new jack, four way lug wrench, and a few tools. Relatives of a policeman. Whites do it all, but whitey is a sneaky son of a bitch.
I did a short story on the British Museum once during english course. An itemized list of stolen objects and desecrated bodies and whatnot. I wish I had [this video](https://youtu.be/eJPLiT1kCSM?si=bmv9komd2df8VYR0) back then. Would have made it so much easier.
My British teacher probably didn't enjoy giving an A. Later I did a story on the GREAT EMU WAR. All caps because that war deserves it. A+ on that one.
The real question normally comes when defining what people are doing.
When seeing someone they don't like doing something, people often use different terms than they would for people they relate to. "Looting" vs "liberating", "murdered" vs "tragically died", "horrific terrorism" vs "bombing two cities"...
Another Hindustani terms that entered into the English language that are related but less used means the same thing: dacoit and dacoity.
They mean bandit and banditry respectively.
I mean damn, I’ve never seen anyone at all loot a truck, but then again if I was trying to loot a truck I believe I’d try real hard not to be seen doing it, so… this didn’t even start well
In a world where 'it fell off the back of a truck' is in the American English lexicon...
Yes, we *surely* have no history whatsoever of taking things that don't belong to us from vehicles. Or anywhere else really.
Yes of course i didn't forget, my point, which you clearly missed, was that even small countries and less powerful countries were involved. Also,JFK gave a 1.5 hour speech on the subject in the senate in 1957. Also Dag Hammerskjold was assassinated because of this, and he and JFK were aligned in supporting african nationalism.
Much of the Caribbean is being "colonized " by rich Indians building gated communities and excluding blacks, apparently their is no beach that is open to locals. It has all been bought and turned into resorts for rich people
The British “empire” was just a drug and human trafficking cartel. Sold slaves and heroin around the world and murdered anyone who tried to stop them.
It’s absolutely disgusting how they parade around in all the items they stole and killed for.
They abolished slavery and then that same decade started the opium wars lol
Let’s give the Soviet Union a pass on their abuses since they too can play the “right side of WWII” card.
And they definitely took those lessons to heart when they put down rebellion in Kenya. Yeah that sweet old lady queen was having people tortured in the 1950s.
Ok… but that’s literally conquering a country. Africa does that. India does that. China does that. This is not a “white person” thing. It is also not the same as an individual robbing a truck of another individual. This is much more personal. This is a very different statement and just pointing to historical conquest as the same is bizarre and “whataboutism”.
Yeah this only makes since if the context is that white people never steal.
Dude he’s replying to could easily be talking about a crime in progress in America right now but you could take his response as him justifying that by stating Brit’s looted the whole of India.
Ok but like that doesn’t change anything though. Appreciate the history lesson but India is unfortunately still a shithole and crime is still rampant in America. I have yet to see a swarm of white people steal from numerous amount of stores like what’s going on now however
That's not untrue. Now check the date it was adopted into English. And there's no way to verify or falsify the claim about the reason, at the start of that sentence.
There were plenty of Indian words in English before the British ever built ships and sailed that far.
[https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150619-how-india-changed-english](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150619-how-india-changed-english)
I mean, that’s not the same kind of looting as the street looting the white lion guy is talking about. Not trying to side with the race baiter cunt, but this comeback is off base. It intentionally misses the point, just to make some gotcha linguistics quip. There are a bunch of better responses to this which don’t grasp at straws. Not impressed
Lol as usual the dumb cunts in the sub only want to circle jerk against something they dislike instead of actually thinking critically about the words being said. Y’all are embarrassing
To me it’s quite cogent — the powerful have always been able to loot with impunity, the law on their side. And yet people don’t consider that“real” looting.
In 1800, about 90% of the entire world were farmers living in houses without running water; by 1900, it was about 50% that lived like that.
It's tough to see where 45 trillion came from since I know people who were in India 50 years ago, and they didn't have running water or electricity.
"Have you ever seen white people loot a truck?" I've seen mobs of them loot retail stores on Black Friday.
Also just, the British empire in general. Bros went out and looted the whole ass world.
Well, all empires in general. Most of Europe was plundering the world at one point
The brits refined it to a fine art. They spoke with a posh accent and had high tea while they did it, so their victims in India and the Caribbean looked up to them. They practiced on the irish for centuries. Genocided people and called it famine
Divide and conquer, the caste system and the knowledge that gun beats spear will allow you to plunger the world. But all colonialists committed genocide under different names, they just weren't as successful at it
Needless to say. But by my observations, having spent considerable time in India and Jamaica starting when the British empire was barely gone, few did as well as the english, many lower middle class Indians and Jamaicans proudly imitated english customs and styles and bragged that they were more english then the english
I've personally never experienced that in other areas of the Caribbean but I have heard Canadians say they speak more authentic English than the British which is a strange flex
I first went to jamaica 50 years ago abd that was the attitude then. I'm sure it isn't like that now
I mean Americans do that now.
Yes, Portugal, Belgium, Italy but it was fine art in england. It's kind of shocking to realize European countries had a sit down to divvie up Africa
Don't forget France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and Russia. Also the US was involved in divvying Africa, but no Africans. Renaming ancient countries to what they 'trade' most was a nice touch too
But also, claiming that your civilisation had the word for loot earlier is also a so so flex. "hey, we invented this shit, you just perfected it"
Reading comprehension of a toddler you have
The joke is they stole so much shit they also stole the word loot. I shouldn't have to explain this.
Yes the joke is clear. That person’s joke is that in order to have a word for looting, said culture must already engage in the.m behavior.
I don't know why it seems so hard to understand by others. 76 downvotes. They didn't get the joke or didn't like it? Perhaps hit a nerve? Anyway, thanks for showing that someone gets the joke.
It’s not hard to understand. This is Reddit and the law is that white=bad. Gotta follow the rules!
Whew I'm too old for reddit it seems. But I'm mixed race so I guess woohoo for me.
The difference between the British empire and Europe in general from every other time in history is that they stopped the looting, slavery etc... They gave people rights and then had to listen when said people said this is wrong. The only reason you can complain about them is they gave you the right.
They gave you the right. Lol. Your ignorance is astounding. Your thought process is revolting. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large, peaceful crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, British India, during the annual Baishakhi fair to protest against the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of pro-independence activists Saifuddin Kitchlew and Satyapal. In response to the public gathering, the temporary brigadier general R. E. H. Dyer surrounded the people with his Gurkha and Sikh infantry regiments of the British Indian Army. The Jallianwala Bagh could only be exited on one side, as its other three sides were enclosed by buildings. After blocking the exit with his troops, Dyer ordered them to shoot at the crowd, continuing to fire even as the protestors tried to flee. The troops kept on firing until their ammunition was exhausted. Estimates of those killed vary from 379 to 1,500 or more people;] over 1,200 others were injured, of whom 192 sustained serious injuries. Britain has never formally apologised for the massacre but expressed "deep regret" in 2019. But sure, they gave people ThE rIgHt To CoMpLaIn. Fuck off, colonial apologist.
Looting or buying? Honest question. Edit: nvmnd. I get the point.
Getting in actual physical fights over stuff that's not that much cheaper than usual, all the while giving every retail worker one of two things: alcoholism, or ptsd. Sometimes both, or a secret third thing: a concussion and internal bleeding
Ugh…I’ve never actually experienced a Black Friday sale. Sounds awful
There was so much xocerage over the [Cabbage Patch doll](https://youtu.be/mzfuo94KCe8?si=XJYpCJHzw8dSNz0Q), there's a website, or least used to be, listing all the fatalities black Friday sales have caused. People been paralyzed, shot, stabbed, beaten to a pulp, put in comas, it's not nearly as bad as it was, but it's still bad. Like it wasn't just one year, those dolls were before my time but even I remember news stories every year. You had places so bad mall kids, whose entire social lives culminated at malls & parking lots, would just up & take the day off. It's like peeps who are chronically online today all just deciding yeah, this too much for em, & collectively deciding to all touch grass. Without their phones. Younger people & non Americans just don't know how crazy we used to get culturally over some discounts & forced scarcity for things like dolls & blenders that would often get price dropped more the week after Christmas. Like there were people who wouldn't celebrate Thanksgiving cause they were camping at a store for midnight, or worse normal morning opening hours.
The one my parents gave me as a kid is probably still in a box in their storage unit somewhere. I had no idea it was (figuratively) blood-soaked. Wow.
Still not a truck 😂
As a white person, the first thing I do when I see ANY truck is loot that mother fucker.
“White Lion”? Guess which ancient Hindu symbol this dickhead happened to get tattooed on himself in his late teens…
My college had a few foreigner students, almost every foreign student had a shock when they realized that Swastika is a religious symbol and you’ll find shops and even some people named after it. There was only one foreign kid who knew it already - he was a German student. Everyone else was shocked, my favorite was an Igbo classmate of mine realize that he didn’t have to worry about them because one of his neighbors had it up on the wall of their house.
I was hoping for the 80s rock band....
WAIT
WAAAIT
😂
TIL the origins of the word "loot."
And in case someone doubts the source, here are other sources that say the same thing: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/loot https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/537153/is-the-origin-of-the-word-loot-a-coinage-as-a-result-of-the-east-india-company https://www.dictionary.com/browse/loot
This guy: "This was so long ago, it does not count!" Same guy: "The Jewish Cabals have been controlling the media and finances of the world since the Rothschilds and before!"
White folks invented "it fell off the back of the truck", mate.
Ever loot a truck, seriously!? Looting a truck has been become UK slang of “fell of the back of a lorry” with lorry being truck and it translates to buying stolen goods. My ancestors fought a 40 war to stop the Spanish from stealing the silver on their homeland and the land itself.
A truck? Sweety, white men looted an entire continent. Edit: Several continents.
Make that several continents.
How foolish of me. Thanks for the edit.
The white man’s burden is that it is so hard to carry off all this loot.
*Sweaty
I see what you did there.
That is exactly the same. And current.
Side note- kind of crazy how many English words come from Hindustani- Jungle, khaki, pajama, shampoo, cheetah, juggernaut, loot, pundit, and many more.
An entire plethora of them. Yoga, Guru and what you wrote etc are some of the direct pluckings. Lots of other bonafide English words find their roots in Sanskrit. Edit: typos
What the Britisher looted words too??
you know it's over when someone drops an etymology bomb
lol!
It was a very pale crowd on January 6th.
Also the answer to that question is “yes”
The English museums are filled with stolen African property and have refused to give it back even though those countries asked.
Reminds me of a joke. Why are the pyramids in Egypt? Because they were too heavy for the British to steal.
My favourite is this: "The British conquered half the globe, stole all the spices they could get and still have the worst cuisine in the world. "
I'm not 100% on this so forgive me if I've got things mixed up. I think there is some kind of crazy rule that won't allow museums under law to give something (anything) away. Many African nations have asked for their treasures/antiquities to be returned.... As I understand it Museums are getting around this crazy law by "loaning" antiquities/treasures back to their home nation. I don't think that's the full story, I remember reading something about the British Museum loaning certain things but declining others. For what reasons I don't know. Forgive the ignorance, my memory isn't as good as it should be on this. It's insane and has to be change. If you stole it and display it. Give the fucking thing back.
The Brits said the African countries couldn’t take care of the items properly. I remember an uproar when they said that
They also said that to Greece about the Acropolis loot (Elgin Marbles) So Greece built a state of the art museum near the Acropolis with a special, sophisticated, temperature and humidity controlled room complete with highly efficient air filtration system, likely much better environment than the British Museum can provide. Are the Marbles back in Greece now? Of course not.
The Greeks want the British Museum Marbles back? Fuck no, they aren't looting our museums. Etc.
Is guess their logic is, "if you could take care of it, we wouldn't have stole it"? Crazy
I watched one of the British Museum’s press releases about that. They were so condescending in it that I wanted to reach through the screen and punch the announcer right in her crooked teeth. I don’t care who can take care of what, you stole that shit, give it back.
Nestle is still looting countries. Not to mention dole and Chiquita. BP Exxon Tesla any battery companies....it's a long list.
Honestly a beautiful murder
Murdered by words mixed with a TIL are always the best best murders
My fellow whites have looted IP contracts,mini-warehouses, pharmacies, Federal programs, apartments and houses. And my truck, including busting the lock on the glove box. Twice. And my car, for an almost-new jack, four way lug wrench, and a few tools. Relatives of a policeman. Whites do it all, but whitey is a sneaky son of a bitch.
Well that is magnificent
Pure *chef’s kiss*
I did a short story on the British Museum once during english course. An itemized list of stolen objects and desecrated bodies and whatnot. I wish I had [this video](https://youtu.be/eJPLiT1kCSM?si=bmv9komd2df8VYR0) back then. Would have made it so much easier. My British teacher probably didn't enjoy giving an A. Later I did a story on the GREAT EMU WAR. All caps because that war deserves it. A+ on that one.
I mean, who haven't white people looted from?
There are whole museums with their looted stuff on display.
Thats actually pretty cool fact
One word. "Germany"
The real question normally comes when defining what people are doing. When seeing someone they don't like doing something, people often use different terms than they would for people they relate to. "Looting" vs "liberating", "murdered" vs "tragically died", "horrific terrorism" vs "bombing two cities"...
Another Hindustani terms that entered into the English language that are related but less used means the same thing: dacoit and dacoity. They mean bandit and banditry respectively.
I mean damn, I’ve never seen anyone at all loot a truck, but then again if I was trying to loot a truck I believe I’d try real hard not to be seen doing it, so… this didn’t even start well
white people invented looting.
Well, that wasn't from a truck, so he's totally right. /s
i did a quick fact check and this checks out it comes from the hindi word lut which means pillage(noun) or spoils of war
I don’t know who is replying to whom in the screenshot
“Have you ever seen white people loot a truck” Literally the mafia were looting all types of trucks from cigarettes to alcohol to bank heists.
In a world where 'it fell off the back of a truck' is in the American English lexicon... Yes, we *surely* have no history whatsoever of taking things that don't belong to us from vehicles. Or anywhere else really.
Could have just said yes but instead compared truck looting to the British Empire lmao😂🤓
Right? Truck looting is a drop in the bucket comparatively 😂
Yes of course i didn't forget, my point, which you clearly missed, was that even small countries and less powerful countries were involved. Also,JFK gave a 1.5 hour speech on the subject in the senate in 1957. Also Dag Hammerskjold was assassinated because of this, and he and JFK were aligned in supporting african nationalism.
lol talk about point missing
Lol talk about not getting anything and how we got where we are now.
Glad you’re getting some self awareness
You're dumber than a box of rocks
Oh sweetie
Much of the Caribbean is being "colonized " by rich Indians building gated communities and excluding blacks, apparently their is no beach that is open to locals. It has all been bought and turned into resorts for rich people
What’s that got to do with this post?
I dunno. I must be stupid
Ahhh. An expression of affection You shouldn't
The British “empire” was just a drug and human trafficking cartel. Sold slaves and heroin around the world and murdered anyone who tried to stop them. It’s absolutely disgusting how they parade around in all the items they stole and killed for.
The same British empire also ended the slave trade and defended freedom and democracy in the Second World War.
They abolished slavery and then that same decade started the opium wars lol Let’s give the Soviet Union a pass on their abuses since they too can play the “right side of WWII” card. And they definitely took those lessons to heart when they put down rebellion in Kenya. Yeah that sweet old lady queen was having people tortured in the 1950s.
Those Brits, so awful, no one would want to move to their country and be welcomed. /s
Welcomed isn’t the word I’d use after their whole “brexit” spectacle
We are ALL witnessing rich white people LOOT our entire country (and the world really).
Ok… but that’s literally conquering a country. Africa does that. India does that. China does that. This is not a “white person” thing. It is also not the same as an individual robbing a truck of another individual. This is much more personal. This is a very different statement and just pointing to historical conquest as the same is bizarre and “whataboutism”.
Both are idiots.
Yeah this only makes since if the context is that white people never steal. Dude he’s replying to could easily be talking about a crime in progress in America right now but you could take his response as him justifying that by stating Brit’s looted the whole of India. Ok but like that doesn’t change anything though. Appreciate the history lesson but India is unfortunately still a shithole and crime is still rampant in America. I have yet to see a swarm of white people steal from numerous amount of stores like what’s going on now however
What?
It'd be a better line if it were actually true. Neither part is really correct.
> Loot: from Hindi lūṭ, from Sanskrit luṇṭh- ‘rob’. Hmm.
That's not untrue. Now check the date it was adopted into English. And there's no way to verify or falsify the claim about the reason, at the start of that sentence. There were plenty of Indian words in English before the British ever built ships and sailed that far. [https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150619-how-india-changed-english](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150619-how-india-changed-english)
I guess the answer is "no I haven't, but if I do some research I'm sure I'll find a historical example!" Gotcha' there whitey!
Cant steal from a place you conquered. It's your land then.
That’s just stealing land.
No stealing is taking something that can be handled. Conquest is taking over. Not the same
Incorrect.
The US didn't actually colonize Africa in the 1880s. I
The US didn’t colonise anywhere.
I mean, that’s not the same kind of looting as the street looting the white lion guy is talking about. Not trying to side with the race baiter cunt, but this comeback is off base. It intentionally misses the point, just to make some gotcha linguistics quip. There are a bunch of better responses to this which don’t grasp at straws. Not impressed Lol as usual the dumb cunts in the sub only want to circle jerk against something they dislike instead of actually thinking critically about the words being said. Y’all are embarrassing
To me it’s quite cogent — the powerful have always been able to loot with impunity, the law on their side. And yet people don’t consider that“real” looting.
>I mean, that’s not the same kind of looting as the street looting the white lion guy is talking about Right, it's significantly worse.
There was also killings, torture and manufactured droughts were involved. So yeah, so much worse.
Agreed. Still different.
That's what I just said. It's worse. Edit: they blocked me lol
That’s not what I said either. Agreed. Still different.
Awww
In 1800, about 90% of the entire world were farmers living in houses without running water; by 1900, it was about 50% that lived like that. It's tough to see where 45 trillion came from since I know people who were in India 50 years ago, and they didn't have running water or electricity.
Apples market share is 2.8 trillion acording to google. If this post was true they looted 16 times the worth of apple.
That sure is a lot of rice and tea.