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Part Two: Henry Morton Stanley: The Explorer Who Shot His Way Through Africa

Behind the Bastards

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The Scramble for Africa

You can acknowledge that this was something horrible that existed in history and that you still benefit from today. But you weren't the one who was actually killing people. And there's a lot that we should be doing to write it, including like reparations to just fucking to nations. We invented colonialism again. Oh, I see how easy it is to fall into that trap of inventing colonialism. It really, oh boy, you know, now that we've had this experience, I think I'm going to write an 1800 page book about how King Leopold had no other option to do what he did. Everyone needs rubber. Have you seen Galatius? They're amazing. What

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