• @Syldon@feddit.uk
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      110 months ago

      Giving things back is not pro-colonial. Did we even have any claim on Greece as a colony?

      • ThenThreeMore
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        210 months ago

        There was more than one empire when the British empire was at its height. Greece was under the control of the Ottoman empire. The purchase of the marbles was an agreement with them rather than the Greeks themselves.

          • ThenThreeMore
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            210 months ago

            I was answering your question about whether Britain had claimed Greece as a colony. Colonialism isn’t just about the British empire.

            • @Syldon@feddit.uk
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              110 months ago

              And again - price of fish. The topic at hand has nothing to do with colonialism.

                • @Syldon@feddit.uk
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                  110 months ago

                  Anti-royal pro-colonial is a angle we don’t often see

                  Look at the comment above and stick to the context

                  Britain had claimed Greece as a colony

                  andthenthreemore see anyone can do that

                  • ThenThreeMore
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                    110 months ago

                    Except I took your whole question to give you context to my answer, rather than taking an extra from a sentence which flipped the meaning.

                    You can’t complain about my comment having nothing to do with the price of fish when I was just giving you an answer to your question.