#reminds me of that story I saw on Tumblr of someone from Sierra Leone going to study in France and everyone saying to them

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Watching Horrible Histories for the first time and reminded about working conditions in the Victorian era and how British people in that time believe themselves to be the Pinnacle of society!

Which reminds me a lot of America today - the greatest country in the world (as long as you don't look too close)!

I'm sure it'd be alright if we did a little (or a shit load of) imperialism - after all, we have better ways of living we can share with these poor foreigners! (Ignore our medical mortality rate, we are doing AWESOME.)

#original #horrible histories #simon farnaby #alex horne #ben willbond #reminds me of that story I saw on Tumblr of someone from Sierra Leone going to study in France and everyone saying to them #'oh you must feel so lucky and relieved to finally be in a wealthy country!' and she was like #'I've literally never seen homeless people before. your streets are littered with innocent people dying on them???' #I'm sorry you can't have a wealthy developed country where people die on the street. #america is like if a human rights violation were a place. thank goodness we are safe from all the backwards ways of places with Healthcare! #homelessness #healthcare #ableism #americans don't have as many children in factories as in victorian times but look me in the eye and tell me things are going well for us #and then bring your hands up to your face because i am gonna try to bite you and if i succeed you won't be able to afford the ambulance #imperialism is heavily internally justified as somehow righteous or even kind - but it's always horrible countries #going out and violently fucking up everyone else's shit #and now I'm an adult and i remember what i was told about our current wars and it is all the same! #also the show is really fun. it's like the entire cast of BBC ghosts doing a violent children's History show #imperialism