Kawoomba comments on Open Thread August 31 - September 6 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 11 September 2015 08:50:08PM 2 points [-]

Light touch indeed. They fucked it up so badly

Eh... the story preceding that rebellion argues, if anything, that the Company tried too hard to bend to local practices, and the British public was outraged that "Clemency Canning" didn't want to come down like a hammer on the natives.

Comment author: Kawoomba 11 September 2015 08:58:46PM 0 points [-]

History can be all things to all people, like the shape of a cloud it's a canvas on which one can project nearly any narrative one fancies.