Fox News anchor (and one of the most repulsive humans to ever breathe) Tucker Carlson stood up to The Queenβs haters Thursday night, reported The Daily Mail. While a number of people were heartbroken about the news of her passing, there were a lot who were elated by the announcement. Carlson said the world will never see an empire so βbenign.β
Benign? The colonizing empire with the white savior complex used to justify murdering and torturing countless civilians? Interesting. ββThe British Empire was not perfect, but it was far more humane than any other ever. It was an impressive place run by impressive people,β Carlson said. Kenya, India, the CaribbeanΒ and any other country sucked into the empireβs colonial rule would beg to differ.
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However, Carlson insisted those very countries benefited from the turmoil.
More on Carlsonβs remarks from The Daily Mail:
He said they were attacking the queen out of a form of jealousy, because her era was better than the one we live in now.
βSlander the ruler, discredit the entire period she lived in,β he said. βAnd thatβs exactly why they are attacking Queen Elizabeth tonight. Not because she was a bad person, she was not a bad person, but because she lived during a better time.β
At its peak in the early 1900s, the British Empire covered around 25 percent of the worldβs land surface, including large swathes of North America, Australia, Africa and Asia.
In 1952, when Elizabeth learned of her fatherβs death, Britain possessed more than 70 overseas territories. Now it has only 14 - the largest of which is the Falkland Islands, inhabited by less than 3,000 people.
βIn the real world, the one we live in, strong countries dominate weak countries, and that trend shows no sign of changing. The very least you can say about the English is they took their colonial responsibility seriously. They did not just take things, they added.β
It comes as no surprise that a white supremacist would get googly eyes over a reign of white supremacy. That βcolonial responsibilityβ was really them abusing their power and disrupting peopleβs way of life. βIn the real world, the one we live in, strong countries dominate weak countries,β Carlson said. Thatβs the problem: No one should idolize this trend and after the past couple centuries, it shouldnβt still be the norm.
Trust me, no one over here is jealous of the postwar era when The Queen took the throne nor the monarchy itself. The very least they did was consider reparations for the countries they plumaged which Carlson would call nonsense if a Black American suggested said reparations from the government.
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