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Part One: Robert Baden-Powell: Founder Of The Boy Scouts

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The British Empire as a War Criminal

I'm inclined to not give him the benefit of the doubt and just say he probably did that shit. I think what's probably true is that he was not trying to get anybody killed, but also the fact that these people, not just that they're black, but they're black members of this tribe that is not valuable to him. And it's not, he probably could have done a lot more to not get them killed. He does count as like relatively mild based on the other military officers of his generation in that position. But again, what he doesn't mayfic is mild compared to the fucking concentration camps that Kitchener setting up.

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