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[xp_loa]

So glad today’s a holiday, hope everyone’s having a good day, and from the bottom of my heart — fuck Cpt. James Cook 💖

Happy Captain Cook Got Rightfully Merc’d Day

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[xp_bruiser]

Just googled that dude. Holy heck.

[xp_loa]

Sadly I can think of no explorer who was too great as a person. But it's always fun to see which statues get vandalized!

[xp_bruiser]

The only good ones that come to mind are fictional. Dora the Explorer, Lara Croft, that dude with the hat and the whip...

[xp_loa]

Oh! I forgot about those ones, but you’re right, they are gooduns!
Maybe I’ll have to sit down and finally learn to play a video game for Ms. Lara. 🤔🤔

[xp_bruiser]

I totally have some of the newer ones! I can show you if you want!

[xp_echo]

Yep. Honestly, all the English from back then can go get fucked.

[xp_loa]

Yeah, pretty much sums up my view on colonialism. We could say "at least he didn't enslave all of the populations" but, well, that's a pretty low bar, innit?

[xp_bevatron]

As a Frenchman, there are many times that I think the entirety of Europe was a mistake.

Colonialism is a large part of that.

[xp_loa]

I agree on the colonialism, for sure. Obviously none of us or anyone currently living (unless someone was a long living mutant who partook, in which case they're about to get SLAPPED) are to blame or should feel guilty, but, man, colonialism and the social structures that followed are the pits.

I think we're getting a little better, with the changing of some names like Columbus Day, and if not, luckily, vandalism of statues and monuments to people like Cook and Columbus exist!