Couldn’t disagree more. His comments and anecdotes seem to me to be mostly irrelevant and often reveal a profound lack of understanding of the topic at hand and history in general. My least favorite BtB guest by far, but that is why we have a fast forward button
Great stuff-thank you for bringing this information to the masses-not many people know it- I wish you would’ve delved into his many wills that he set up and the secret societies and Rhodes Scholarship and the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission that stem from this man’s goals and exist still in this country and others today.
The Indians were mainly imported to the colony of Natal, which is today Kwazulu-Natal province, to work on sugarcane plantations. It was happening during the same time period but I don't think Rhodes had much influence there.
The guy that walked around picking up diamonds stolen, to the point where people joked about "his" stack of diamonds, from a continent stolen, that he named after himself twice, that guy, he wants to tell others the value of labor? Wow.
When you said "We already have a country, bro", that's the setup to an Eddie Izzard joke about British colonialism, which goes on: British man: "Well, do you have a flag?" native: "no, what's a flag for?" British man: "Well! Sorry old chap, but no flag, no country!"
Flaunting unearned wealth is not a flex to feel complicated about. Maaaaybe if he was hustling with fake diamonds whilst plotting the assassinations of all those around him. Set the bar higher.
I can see from the article's quotes that the people trying to defend Cecil Rhodes never learned that racism is wrong. They just learned that being *called* racist is a bad look and are trying to define the word to not include themselves. This is not an original thought I'm providing here but wow did this ever remind me that this is a thing.
Reminder that Trevor Noah was making racist stand up in South Africa only a few years ago. If you can't find clips of that, you can still find a clip of Trevor Noah defending cops who fired on miners a few years ago.
Which I guess he could get away with because he's "light-skinned"? Anyway, I've seen that clip on youtube, then I looked for it again and couldn't find it anymore last year.
It seems in bad taste to bring that up in the specific context of the racial oppression he faced earlier in life. Hes only being brought up because he's a person from that background who wrote about his experience.
The exchange was 'if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee', 'if you were my wife, I'd drink it'
"You're fighting over a house that ain't yours." Great summary of colonialism by Prop.
RUclips is recommending be a bunch of episodes with Prop as a guest and I'm here for it. He's a great guest.
Couldn’t disagree more. His comments and anecdotes seem to me to be mostly irrelevant and often reveal a profound lack of understanding of the topic at hand and history in general. My least favorite BtB guest by far, but that is why we have a fast forward button
@USBBenson that's like 80% of his guests they're often comedians. He doesn't usually have people on for their expertise lol.
He also infamously supressed reporting of a small pox outbreak in Kimberley to ensure that he got a steady stream of labourers to mine for him.
Wow, the "Dignity of Labor" line from 36:14 could be dropped directly into any anti-welfare speech from the last 30 years without anyone noticing.
Great stuff-thank you for bringing this information to the masses-not many people know it- I wish you would’ve delved into his many wills that he set up and the secret societies and Rhodes Scholarship and the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission that stem from this man’s goals and exist still in this country and others today.
The Indians were mainly imported to the colony of Natal, which is today Kwazulu-Natal province, to work on sugarcane plantations. It was happening during the same time period but I don't think Rhodes had much influence there.
"give me the confidence of a mediocre white guy" -best line ever
Especially one living in a colony where he can bolster his inflated self-worth with a false sense of superiority over his "racial inferiors".
I think about this all the time.
The guy that walked around picking up diamonds stolen, to the point where people joked about "his" stack of diamonds, from a continent stolen, that he named after himself twice, that guy, he wants to tell others the value of labor? Wow.
If i think of the word “rhodesia” i can literally only imagine it being said in the voice of archibald the asparagus from veggietales
59:16 that's literally a scene from Fascists on Mars
This was one of those rare episodes that actually made me angry. The patronising racism is just infuriating. Fantastic work though! :D
RIP to Cecil Rhodes you would have loved SpaceX
1:12:44 ok but fr tho that Warren Zevon song is pretty great
When you said "We already have a country, bro", that's the setup to an Eddie Izzard joke about British colonialism, which goes on:
British man: "Well, do you have a flag?"
native: "no, what's a flag for?"
British man: "Well! Sorry old chap, but no flag, no country!"
good job, guys!
"Mistah Kurtz - he dead."
Flaunting unearned wealth is not a flex to feel complicated about. Maaaaybe if he was hustling with fake diamonds whilst plotting the assassinations of all those around him. Set the bar higher.
I'm not sure I agree with the claim that it's nice in England now. Theyve been making America look good by comparison.
I can see from the article's quotes that the people trying to defend Cecil Rhodes never learned that racism is wrong. They just learned that being *called* racist is a bad look and are trying to define the word to not include themselves.
This is not an original thought I'm providing here but wow did this ever remind me that this is a thing.
Who votes for a guy who owns two OTHER countries?? Can you HAVE a bigger conflict of interest??
Reminder that Trevor Noah was making racist stand up in South Africa only a few years ago. If you can't find clips of that, you can still find a clip of Trevor Noah defending cops who fired on miners a few years ago.
Which I guess he could get away with because he's "light-skinned"? Anyway, I've seen that clip on youtube, then I looked for it again and couldn't find it anymore last year.
It seems in bad taste to bring that up in the specific context of the racial oppression he faced earlier in life. Hes only being brought up because he's a person from that background who wrote about his experience.
@@sampagano205 have you seen the racist stand up where he makes fun of black people for being darker skinned than him? because I have
@@sscoutistaken yes. How is that supposed to change things?
@@sscoutistaken people who are racist can still suffer racial oppression.