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Originally Posted by ATDrake
And the people of England should give praise that they were spared from having as their king Leopold of Belgium, notorious for cutting off people's hands in his goldmines in the Congo.
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Nope, didn't happen, Drake.
This story is simply the usual determination of lefters to blame everything bad that Africans do on whites, somehow.
There was some hand-cutting-off in that area by black overseers all right, but they had done it forever and they are still doing exactly the same thing in the Forever War in that area. We have all read of the handless children after rebel soldiers go thru villages; they're just into limb cutting off in that area, they always have been.
Goldmines? Rubber plantations, surely. I have a photo of a picture in a book on Belgian colonies CAPTIONED "Father displays hands cut off from five-year-old daughter as punishment for his refusal to work." The display is on a white's porch where he has obviously gone to protest what happened, so it can't have been the whites who did it, indeed, he is hoping for redress from the whites. And it has to have been a white who took the original photograph, since the blacks wouldn't have had cameras.
Also, the photo clearly shows
feet, not hands; the sloppiness of all this misattribution is incredible, in my opinion. I think we are all too easily fooled and have to be careful what we believe.