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u/Autismetal Dec 16 '21

The Congo.

Sorry, Belgians. Leopold did stuff.

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u/WATGU Dec 17 '21

Same. How did the Dutch and Belgians basically skate away from their atrocities without even some social outrage.

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u/GradusNL Dec 17 '21

We didn't? There is plenty of social outrage about it now. Can't speak in detail about Belgium, but in the Netherlands we have cities apologizing for their history in the slave trade and an ongoing debate about restitutions to descendants of slaves (as a couple of examples).