Many centuries ago there was a group called Lohana, which means Lahori, on account of how we lived in Lahore, which is now Pakistan but was at the time neither India nor Pakistan because those concepts didn’t exist yet. We were mostly merchants.
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You really seem to be a historian. 🫡💯
jul 6, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for the history. Very interesting and well explained
jul 4, 2025, 11:50 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you for this backstory. Are the Roma/Sinti people at all related with the Lohana people? Many say we were originally from India-ish.
jul 4, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
It is highly debated whether Lohana are in fact FROM Lahore. Common alternate theories are that we were from Afghanistan (as many groups in what is now Northern India were) or Palestine (ditto.) Probably it was a combination, we were nomadic and as you can see from Zohran we were VERY hot.
jul 3, 2025, 11:30 pm • 3,005 73 • view
Wait this is so interesting. I don’t know a super good amount about my family history but I know we are also Lohana. Would love to pick your brain about this!
jul 4, 2025, 3:24 am • 5 0 • view
Like I say about my own roots (Eastern European Jewish peasant), it depends on where the border was that day...
jul 4, 2025, 6:20 am • 7 0 • view
No need to be so shy, your hotness. 🙂
jul 4, 2025, 3:33 am • 0 0 • view
When and why did many groups from Palestine make their way to Northern India?
jul 4, 2025, 5:58 am • 1 0 • view
In the 12th and 13th centuries after the fall of the Fatimid Caliphate and the subsequent Mongol invasion.
jul 4, 2025, 6:14 am • 9 0 • view
A Lebanese Catholic church started meeting in my parents' church after I moved away. My mom called and told me I have to come back and go to the Lebanese church. She said "it's a whole church of supermodels!"
jul 7, 2025, 5:51 am • 0 0 • view
"were." lol
jul 4, 2025, 3:12 am • 4 0 • view
*nods, takes notes ("very hot, yes")*
jul 4, 2025, 3:21 am • 14 1 • view
I love how it's being presented as a causal factor for how they could have come from a combination of different places, along with their nomadic lifestyle
jul 4, 2025, 10:55 am • 2 0 • view
Totally. Like, it's funny but also 🤔
jul 4, 2025, 1:34 pm • 2 0 • view
(actually though am loving this thread, thank you ❤️)
jul 4, 2025, 3:22 am • 5 0 • view
It’s our most important trait honestly. There is a smaller, but still very hot, diaspora of Gujarati East Africans who are Hindu. They are mostly in Kenya, and the most famous (and hottest) example is Dev Patel.
jul 4, 2025, 3:31 am • 34 2 • view
Dang - point made 🔥
jul 4, 2025, 3:49 am • 4 0 • view
Also Priti Patel and Suella Braverman.
jul 5, 2025, 3:08 am • 1 0 • view
I mean honestly? We need to elect MORE of these folks
jul 5, 2025, 1:38 pm • 0 0 • view
...Patel and Braverman are, I fear, not positive examples, because Patel and Braverman are Tories. :-/
jul 5, 2025, 11:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Oops! Showing my ignorance there, thanks for the correction
jul 5, 2025, 11:27 pm • 1 0 • view
✌🏽😉 Yas
jul 4, 2025, 4:53 pm • 1 0 • view
😍😍😍😍
jul 4, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
BUT due to a combination of war and famine and general merchant-ing we mostly wound up in Gujarat and Punjab. In the case of my & Zohran’s family, it was Gujarat. We were at this point mostly Hindu and mostly worshipped the goddess Shakti, but some were already Muslim.
jul 3, 2025, 11:32 pm • 2,000 67 • view
Meanwhile, there was this group of Shia Muslims over in the Levant and Iran called Ismailis. Ismailis are a weird and quirky sect based mostly on social justice and being nerds, and we were doing well for a while—we ruled the Fatimid Empire, it was cool—and then the Mongols decided to kill us all.
jul 3, 2025, 11:35 pm • 2,084 82 • view
It's too bad that so many important conflicts seem to be related to different religions. I grew up Roman Catholic and was taught ours was the only true religion. (I guess all ppl think there's is the only true religion) Mother was Protestant. My teacher told me I shouldn't associate with her. 🤑
jul 4, 2025, 6:34 pm • 1 0 • view
People may know the Aga Khan and related hospitals, etc.
jul 4, 2025, 12:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Describing the Fatimid Caliphate rulers as weird and quirky SJW nerds gives Miku binder Thomas Jefferson...
jul 5, 2025, 8:21 am • 0 0 • view
> Ismailis are a weird and quirky sect based mostly on social justice and being nerds I can’t decide if this is beautiful or heartbreaking.
jul 4, 2025, 7:54 am • 5 0 • view
Now, most genocides do not actually kill most people, because it’s quite difficult to kill all of a people! The Mongols, however, were really good at genocide. Something like 99% of Ismailis were killed and the rest went into hiding.
jul 3, 2025, 11:36 pm • 1,902 69 • view
I strongly suspected he was Ismaili based on demographics and politics. Lovely group of people
jul 4, 2025, 4:27 am • 0 0 • view
So I’d read that one of the reasons the Mongols never got into India was that there were a group of extremely dedicated Muslim refugees from Baghdad who helped Infirm and prepare the defenses… is that connected?
jul 4, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
This thread is killing me sis 😭
jul 4, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Up until, despite ruling an empire Ismailis mostly didn’t recruit, on account of being quirky nerds who just wanted to argue about books all day (does this sound familiar to anyone) BUT our numbers were real real low SO a dude named Pir Sadardin went off to Gujarat.
jul 3, 2025, 11:38 pm • 1,898 65 • view
Lohana, as mentioned, were worshippers of the goddess Shakti, and her whole thing is song and dance. So Pir Sadardin was like, “huh, these people sure like songs huh” and he and the remaining Ismailis converted a bunch of us by writing really good songs. I am not joking.
jul 3, 2025, 11:39 pm • 2,524 82 • view
Love that 🎶🎶
jul 4, 2025, 3:46 am • 0 0 • view
So interesting! And love songs 🎶
jul 4, 2025, 7:03 am • 0 0 • view
music is really something
jul 4, 2025, 12:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Would you consider queer people a self-creating diaspora? The principle of getting constantly fucked over by everyone else creates the strongest bonds, and that's why fascism targets the poor and minorities - cos we grow up fucking metal and it's so easy to make us feel like we have nothing to lose.
jul 5, 2025, 5:30 am • 2 1 • view
The Lohana who converted were called Khoja, which is Indians trying to say Kwaja, the Farsi word for teacher. A different group of Shia Muslims called Ithna’asheri also converted a bunch of Lohana. Ismailis and Ithna’asheri are almost the same so of course they hated each other’s guts.
jul 3, 2025, 11:40 pm • 2,012 60 • view
But apart from some fun spats, things were mostly fine. We sang our songs, we sold our wares, some of us were rich, some of us were poor, some of us tried to sneakily recruit each other, good times. AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP.
jul 3, 2025, 11:41 pm • 3,296 215 • view
That last sentence applies to too many places.
jul 4, 2025, 6:25 am • 3 0 • view
Thank you for sharing your beautiful and fascinating history. 🕊️🖖🏽
jul 4, 2025, 4:49 am • 22 0 • view
Yes and it counts.
jul 4, 2025, 11:39 am • 1 0 • view
Ugh the British lol
jul 4, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Loved reading this! Thanks for sharing!
jul 4, 2025, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Omg, tysm for this. Dad’s side is from Kenya & Tanzania (African 1st) & though he’s Hindu, his best friend of 70+ yrs is Ismaili as are most of his childhood friends. Mom’s is Sikh Panjabi & everyone got out w/the UK on 1 side & US on the other. Mixed & in the diaspora, I ended up w/a white guy.
jul 7, 2025, 4:34 am • 2 0 • view
It is really hard being British and wanting so hard to defend peoples but knowing its our fault they need defending. Its why the Irish are so pro-Palestine and why our govt are being so over the top trying to prosecute them. Somehow the Brits ruin everything...
jul 4, 2025, 9:49 am • 37 1 • view
If it's any consolation, the current UK government doesn't seem to be capable of anything, let alone colonization.
jul 4, 2025, 1:29 pm • 0 0 • view
The British were not the only European colonialists. Let’s not forget the Belgians, French or Germans. They were, however the most successful. If tribalism were not the curse of our species you’d not need to defend anyone
jul 4, 2025, 12:33 pm • 3 0 • view
It's every empire ever. Empires are a bad idea for everyone involved except the rich and power-mad. Before the Internet people credited them with spreading cool stuff as well, but now they're obsolete.
jul 7, 2025, 4:47 pm • 1 0 • view
True, but you do have great writers.
jul 4, 2025, 11:13 am • 1 0 • view
Ah yes, “Seriously? …He never changes. …It’s always the same with this guy.” youtu.be/ARSNaSeT9hw?...
jul 5, 2025, 6:06 am • 1 0 • view
*cringes*
jul 4, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you.
jul 4, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
The most perfectly situated readmore i have ever encountered
jul 4, 2025, 3:08 pm • 9 0 • view
A professor of mine once said, “Show a 20th century war anywhere in the world and I’ll show you a border drawn by the British”
jul 4, 2025, 8:17 am • 38 5 • view
Oh no I hate this cameo
jul 4, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
A genetic study using Oxford Nanopore sequencers would likely produce a very interesting map.
jul 4, 2025, 12:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Thanks for giving me a cultural lesson! AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP - now that’s a Jeopardy category.
jul 6, 2025, 10:47 pm • 6 0 • view
never a good thing -___-
jul 6, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
You know things are going to get bad when The British Showed Up comes into a story.
jul 4, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
The first 850 years are the worst
jul 4, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
“and then the fucking British showed up” love common themes 🥲🫠
jul 5, 2025, 12:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Honestly I was expecting this. Somewhere in half of all nations' histories, the British show up and do a big Empire all over the carpets.
jul 4, 2025, 8:39 am • 19 0 • view
jul 4, 2025, 11:34 am • 5 0 • view
Nicely put
jul 4, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Speaking as a native of the UK - can concur that we screwed up a lot of places.
jul 4, 2025, 4:49 am • 13 0 • view
As another UK resident, I say British rulers and governments have done a lot worse than "screw up" the world. But the word "we" is problematic. The powerful did let some 'spoils' of the rigged global economy trickle down to ordinary 'brits', and indoctrinated them too think this was ok. Now
jul 4, 2025, 7:01 am • 1 0 • view
As someone who lives in a place where the British showed up and still haven't fucked off this is the best post I have ever read in the entire history of social media. Thank you.
jul 5, 2025, 11:18 am • 5 0 • view
So - you'd identify as an African American? 🤔
jul 5, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
@skyview.social unroll
jul 4, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
One of my South Asian friends uses the collective noun "WHITE OPPRESSORS" so that we Americans of pallor don't feel left out of the imperialist guilt 🇺🇸 I'm just saying, you could be more inclusive 😉
jul 4, 2025, 11:30 am • 31 1 • view
Thank you for the history lesson! It is always a good thing to be more informed. ❤️
jul 4, 2025, 11:27 am • 14 0 • view
Thank you for sharing this. 😊😊
jul 4, 2025, 12:45 pm • 1 0 • view
There we were, hauling human cargo back and forth across the Atlantic. AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP.
jul 4, 2025, 10:43 pm • 7 0 • view
>be britain >second largest participant in the transatlantic slave trade >after centuries of protests finally decide slave trading is bad >realize ending the slave trade is a great excuse to capture ships >200 years later people on the internet make opposing the slave trade our entire legacy >mfw :D
jul 5, 2025, 12:37 am • 0 0 • view
The Mughal incursion into India resulted in the death of millions of Hindus. AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP.
jul 4, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
What didn’t the New York Times not get? Did they not understand that people can be from places their ancestors weren’t? Like they think we’re all a mix of Navajo/Powhatan/Chippewa right now, just like the Brothers Grimm and King Arthur before us?
jul 4, 2025, 10:25 pm • 7 0 • view
Rashid ad-Din Sinan? The Old Man of the Mountain. Is he yours? Hash-hashin. A very renowned figure.
jul 4, 2025, 12:23 pm • 1 0 • view
I was wondering if someone would mention this. Though I haven't specialized in the area that Babai knows, I did look into the Assassins a while ago...yes, they were a branch of Ismaili Islam. The Mongols wiped 'em out. Caliphs of neighboring powers respected them up to that point...(1)
jul 4, 2025, 2:34 pm • 1 0 • view
AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP. Yep applies to my country as well.
jul 4, 2025, 4:47 am • 46 0 • view
Not all fucking British.
jul 4, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 4, 2025, 5:02 am • 14 0 • view
The Brits were TERRIBLE, here when they were colonizing Canada. At one point they spread small pox virus in "gifts" they gave indigenous people here. Nice (NOT!) Colonization was all about exploiting labour in different countries. Resource extraction continues today.
jul 4, 2025, 6:38 pm • 7 0 • view
When colonizing other countries becomes too hard, the rich turn to greater exploitation of people in their own vicinity. That's what's going on now. Slowly pushing us down so the few can reap big riches. Then speedily. Greedy misers want to stay rich.
jul 4, 2025, 7:20 pm • 5 0 • view
So many stories take a terrible turn when this happens.
jul 4, 2025, 6:40 am • 4 0 • view
Thanks for the history lesson. This first person insider view of history is hard to come by in most other forums. The truth is that most of us are the same race: Mongrel.
jul 5, 2025, 5:12 pm • 3 0 • view
And becoming more so. If you want to set certain people off, remind them that in the not so distant future, we’ll all be kind of an average tan color.
jul 6, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view
If you're ever struggling to connect with someone from a different culture, just shit-talk the British. Or English. Either way, there's a good chance they agree for a reason of their own.
jul 4, 2025, 8:56 pm • 13 0 • view
As a British Tolkien fan with an Irish surname, I very much appreciate that!
jul 6, 2025, 10:55 am • 1 0 • view
That’s hilarious and so true!
jul 4, 2025, 5:44 pm • 4 0 • view
Who is the final character?
jul 6, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Statues of her all over the place too
jul 4, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Independence from Britain is the most common holiday in the world.
jul 4, 2025, 4:32 pm • 11 0 • view
Scotland is hoping to leave the U.K. very soon 👍🏴
jul 4, 2025, 5:01 pm • 4 0 • view
I think so many cultures globally can relate to "AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP!"
jul 4, 2025, 12:37 pm • 15 1 • view
Sadly. The damage we did is unimaginable
jul 4, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Imperial Britannia was another country that believed its own bullshit. And look at them now.
jul 4, 2025, 6:24 am • 2 0 • view
And *not* coincidentally the British showed up in Gujarat (1608) at almost the EXACT same time they showed up in Jamestown (1607).
jul 4, 2025, 5:07 pm • 7 0 • view
I was waiting for THAT.
jul 4, 2025, 11:23 am • 1 0 • view
The British ruined the world.
jul 4, 2025, 1:54 pm • 1 0 • view
You should design a t-shirt and sell it to raise money for genocide victims worldwide with the words AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP
jul 4, 2025, 3:16 am • 737 29 • view
I'd buy one.
jul 4, 2025, 6:53 am • 0 0 • view
take my money
jul 4, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
It would sell well in Ireland too 😂
jul 4, 2025, 11:53 am • 0 0 • view
I’m English by birth and I’d wear it.
jul 4, 2025, 4:54 am • 1 0 • view
Probably easier to just say AND THEN THE FUCKING WHITE MAN SHOWED UP
jul 4, 2025, 11:55 am • 2 0 • view
I’d buy one
jul 4, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
To be fair, large numbers of ‘Ugandan Asians’ who were kicked out by Amin in the 1970s were given refugee status in Britain.
jul 4, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I’d buy it.
jul 4, 2025, 8:23 am • 1 0 • view
Nobody expects the british inquisition!
jul 5, 2025, 9:10 am • 1 0 • view
They were involved in so much stuff. So much of the current issues can be traced back to British and/or US interference.
jul 4, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Reminds me of a bit by the Irish comedian Dara o’ Briain: every tourist attraction in Ireland has a tour guide going through its history, and there’s always a bit where they say “and then the English came and ruined it!”
jul 4, 2025, 11:46 am • 0 0 • view
Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands were much the same during colonisation, if not more brutal. Maybe its AND THEN THE FUCKING EUROPEANS SHOWED UP
jul 4, 2025, 3:25 am • 148 1 • view
I would buy that right now.
jul 4, 2025, 4:03 am • 0 0 • view
I’d buy one!!
jul 4, 2025, 5:18 am • 0 0 • view
That would be primo! The second best is "Britain is responsible for more independence days than any other country."
jul 4, 2025, 3:45 am • 8 0 • view
Absolutely. Sorry.
jul 4, 2025, 10:38 am • 0 0 • view
jul 4, 2025, 11:43 am • 0 0 • view
It's not *always* a bad thing though. www.nam.ac.uk/explore/libe...
jul 4, 2025, 2:08 pm • 1 0 • view
I love that's where it decided to collapse the thread, because that's never a good cliff hanger in any story
jul 4, 2025, 5:55 am • 0 0 • view
Ireland joins the chat….
jul 4, 2025, 9:39 am • 6 0 • view
Then everything changed when the British showed up.
jul 5, 2025, 1:17 am • 2 0 • view
People are brave, creative, and resilient. He's made from some very tough ancestry.
jul 4, 2025, 4:13 am • 30 0 • view
Yeah. No backing down there.
jul 4, 2025, 11:29 am • 1 0 • view
A people who understand what is happening really well.
jul 4, 2025, 5:36 am • 6 0 • view
Maybe amend this to the English turned up?
jul 13, 2025, 9:47 am • 0 0 • view
I was reading through this very interesting thread, and in the back of my head a voice was going 'it's going to be the fault of the British' because if there is one thing I've learned about history, and especially diasporas, it's that 95% of the time we Brits are to blame.
jul 4, 2025, 9:23 pm • 16 0 • view
Irish people concur
jul 4, 2025, 11:23 pm • 1 0 • view
And before anyone asks the rest of the time it was the French, Dutch and Belgians at fault.
jul 4, 2025, 9:24 pm • 11 0 • view
Thank you so much for sharing this in painstaking detail! I’m really grateful to understand more about your community’s history and experiences. I wish nothing but health and happiness for you and your whole family. America should be the place where that’s guaranteed for everyone
jul 4, 2025, 2:44 pm • 4 0 • view
jul 5, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
This one skeet is like the cliff notes version of the last 400 years of history for like 2/3 of the planet.
jul 4, 2025, 4:02 am • 103 2 • view
For my family... THEN THE FUCKING PORTUGUESE SHOWED UP AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP
jul 7, 2025, 10:33 am • 4 0 • view
For Jamaicans it's the fucking Spanish first and they got their asses kicked, so then the fucking British. For the Haitians it's "and then the fucking French showed up, the Jamaicans helped us to kick them out, and then the French billed us for a century because we kicked their asses".
jul 7, 2025, 3:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Religion showed up too… Crusades and worse
jul 4, 2025, 5:02 am • 4 0 • view
Religion was not the reason but a tool used wrongly by power hungry men.
jul 4, 2025, 6:25 am • 7 0 • view
I was treated like royalty on my trips to South Yemen just because I was British. They took me to see generators and other infrastructure installed by the Victorians. Hardworking, generous people. But the society is pre-Biblical.
jul 4, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
"THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP" should really be a series of history books or documentaries explaining how they just messed up the whole damn world.🥴
jul 4, 2025, 4:27 am • 125 6 • view
A companion series to “Stuff the British Stole” really.
jul 4, 2025, 5:45 am • 31 1 • view
But Britain had an original stock of people and THEN THE VIKINGS TURNED UP, and the ROMANS TURNED UP. The last invasion was THE NORMANS, and they still own most of the land and power and continue to colonialise from this base. Ironic that the poor old ancient Britons get the global blame.
jul 4, 2025, 6:38 am • 2 0 • view
Great thread. It’s very cool to me because after much effort and research my family history is basically “Some illiterate Scotch/ Irish Hillbillies wandered out of the Appalachians in the late 1800s and got jobs in factories.”
jul 4, 2025, 1:06 pm • 13 0 • view
You might enjoy this book. It fills in a lot of history I was unaware of that may connect to your family and a lot of families who emigrated to America. No offense intended in the title. Says more about the ones who throw around insults than the people they target with insults.
jul 4, 2025, 7:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Or mines.
jul 4, 2025, 4:46 pm • 3 0 • view
I have heard the Ba-Damp! through the text somehow.
jul 5, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view
"AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP" Thanks for sharing this fascinating thread. Reading here in Ireland, certain points struck a chord.
jul 4, 2025, 1:00 pm • 7 0 • view
Also here in Aotearoa New Zealand....
jul 4, 2025, 8:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh, shit. I think I know how this goes from here. It’s never good.
aug 1, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
As someone who is a *direct* descendant of AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP... I feel like we can rename whole history courses that. Possibly whole degrees. Several for North America/Oceania, a few for the Caribbean, oodles for South Asia and a ton for Africa...
jul 4, 2025, 6:21 am • 29 0 • view
Yeah. Maybe expand it to “Europeans showed up” to include some of the other screw ups and exploitations of Spain and to a lesser extent Dutch, Portuguese, and French.
jul 4, 2025, 7:10 am • 0 0 • view
I kind of feel as if the Welsh would point out that it’s more the English than the British, given the English ran roughshod over them first.
jul 4, 2025, 8:30 am • 1 0 • view
Ireland since 1170
jul 4, 2025, 7:45 am • 17 0 • view
I did a series of university courses about peace and what are believed to be wars between religious groups across history around the world. Practically every single one of them turned out to be caused by colonialism and the way the colonialists created animosities and divided power when they left.
jul 4, 2025, 6:30 am • 8 0 • view
It's the ominous turning point of far too many countries history.
jul 4, 2025, 10:44 am • 1 0 • view
Master class.
jul 4, 2025, 1:12 pm • 8 0 • view
Thank you for a well written and very educational read. We need more of these personalized history lessons.
jul 4, 2025, 2:47 pm • 17 1 • view
And still, we have politicians saying we should celebrate the positive side of empire. As far as I can see that amounts to trains, a civil service, cricket and a culture of subjugating and murdering. So it boils down to “I’m really sorry that my ancestors did all that stuff, but - cricket - yeah!1/2
jul 4, 2025, 4:45 pm • 5 0 • view
The focus on trains is sold to people as easier transportation, but they are used to make the rich richer by selling goods to a wider population. And then to transport people involuntarily. That's planes and even shipping containers now.
jul 4, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Some days I’m remind of how shit we were to a whole lot of people around the world and we’re being told we should be proud of it. We were awful, and we’ve rewritten our collective memory so we can say we were a force for good. 2/2
jul 4, 2025, 4:45 pm • 4 0 • view
I probably can’t use the “fucking” part, but I’d love to use this in my world history class next year to describe several points in history
jul 4, 2025, 2:29 pm • 2 1 • view
Sorry about that, some of us just wanted to stay home singing songs and arguing about books but there's always some idiot. Anyway, back to your thread...
jul 4, 2025, 5:25 am • 64 0 • view
All I want in life!
jul 4, 2025, 5:26 am • 39 0 • view
I'm cringing as I read on.............
jul 4, 2025, 4:16 am • 1 0 • view
📌
jul 4, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
This is where it always goes south.
jul 4, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Wonderful thread. Thank you.
jul 5, 2025, 12:19 am • 11 0 • view
Now, European elites had benefited immensely from this handy thing called antisemitism, which did an amazing job of keeping peasants in line by giving them a highly visible group of outsiders to blame for everything. So they went around recreating this in all their colonies.
jul 3, 2025, 11:43 pm • 2,025 124 • view
Jesus. This penny just dropped for me. UGH.
jul 4, 2025, 5:51 am • 3 0 • view
Great thread! I knew a little of this history on account of having an Ismaili friend but you make it so clear and engaging. Thank you!
jul 4, 2025, 3:36 am • 5 0 • view
"They" always need someone to blame. (Look at Trump)
jul 4, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
The British hated the Irish -1st, that’s how they cut their teeth. Then antisemitism started under King John (to steal money from the merchants. He thought they were charging him too much interest on his lending fees.) He expropriated they villages.
jul 4, 2025, 1:58 pm • 5 0 • view
Remind me what a Dhimmi is again and how that Pact of Umar fits with this idea?
jul 5, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you, Sophia, for sharing your history. Best thing I'll read today.
jul 4, 2025, 3:11 pm • 2 0 • view
In Rwanda the highly visible scapegoat minorities were the Tutsis. In much of North Africa but particularly Algeria they were, well, Jews. In India they were Muslims. Suddenly things got really, really bad for Muslims in India.
jul 3, 2025, 11:44 pm • 1,854 73 • view
I so understand this... "AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP."
jul 4, 2025, 1:17 pm • 11 0 • view
Have a conversation with an Irish… They were the first experiment in 1169. It’s an ice cold peace.
jul 4, 2025, 2:17 pm • 6 0 • view
God they ruin everything.
jul 4, 2025, 3:55 am • 21 0 • view
Except fish and chips.
jul 4, 2025, 2:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for the history lesson a the British showed up tells it all!
jul 4, 2025, 3:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Thank you do very much for this history lesson!
jul 5, 2025, 3:26 pm • 1 0 • view
As someone who is British... Yeah. Yeah, that tracks. No one, despite whatever Murdock's rags claim, has fucked up Britain more than the British (the Romans don't count cos it wasn't Britain back then). Not even the Germans did the up-fuckening, and they BOMBED US.
jul 4, 2025, 7:48 am • 12 0 • view
But that's another story entirely. Let's not wander off into revenge and Dresden, and so forth. Pick it up on August 15,1947.
jul 4, 2025, 11:39 am • 1 0 • view
"AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP" accounts for a startlingly high percentage of historic disasters 😔
jul 4, 2025, 12:46 pm • 335 17 • view
Having Irish, Welsh, Scottish and French ancestry, im pretty sure thats my family motto
jul 4, 2025, 12:57 pm • 3 0 • view
The sun never sets on the British empire… mostly because god doesn’t trust the English in the dark
jul 4, 2025, 4:52 pm • 2 0 • view
It needs to be the title of a book on colonial history.
jul 4, 2025, 12:51 pm • 73 0 • view
Am British. Can confirm.
jul 4, 2025, 2:08 pm • 1 0 • view
In Ireland we have the contemporary phrase "the brits are at it again"... Because they usually are...
jul 4, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Uh, yeah, just look at Palestine 🙄
jul 4, 2025, 5:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Of course the fire nation attacked, ugh
jul 4, 2025, 9:05 am • 5 0 • view
Well worth the read!
jul 4, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
😬
jul 4, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
As a Brit, I always think of this sketch whenever colonialism is, rightly, brought up.
jul 4, 2025, 4:29 am • 7 1 • view
Appreciate the information 🇺🇸
jul 4, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
AND THEN THE FUCKING BRITISH SHOWED UP Wild how often the goofy times in a cultures history are preceded by those words.
jul 4, 2025, 4:57 pm • 56 1 • view
And soon it will be AND THEN TRUMP SHOWED UP.
jul 4, 2025, 7:31 pm • 14 1 • view
I was wondering when we would appear... Never ones to miss a good opportunity to screw people for some profit...
jul 4, 2025, 7:20 am • 3 0 • view
Thanks for sharing this, Sophia
jul 6, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I am so here for this
jul 4, 2025, 9:06 pm • 0 0 • view
The head of the Ismailis is the Aga Khan. They are also the sect which gave us the order of assassins via a breakaway sect www.britannica.com/topic/Nizari...
jul 4, 2025, 5:58 pm • 1 0 • view
No kidding!
jul 4, 2025, 9:39 am • 0 0 • view
Just wanted to ❤️ this particular comment twice.
jul 4, 2025, 5:50 pm • 2 0 • view
😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anyc...
jul 5, 2025, 1:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Good Post! #JaiHo is an Indian term, greeting, encouragement to stay positive and win. #India #Hindu open.spotify.com/track/4yhXVN...
jul 7, 2025, 9:30 am • 0 0 • view