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Dining across the divide: ‘He has a very rosy view of empire and colonialism’ (www.theguardian.com)

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I thought this was interesting, seeing the views of a young adult who supports Reform. The article is about him having a date with a Green-voting young woman.

What are your thoughts about the growth of Reform, especially among young adults?

Having said that though, it looks like Reform's voting base still skews older. If you look at YouGov's most recent data here (as of the time of me writing this) you can see the following:

15% of 18-24 year-olds support Reform
20% of 25-49 year-olds support Reform
26% of 50-64 year-olds support Reform
29% of 65+ year-olds support Reform

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[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

… and an idiot

Well nearly 100 years of movies etc failing to show the truth about pre colonial Africa.

Its hardly a surprise he dose not even recognise we raised multiple African city States to the ground.

Add the likes of pit rivers influence on our early british museums etc. There is still a strong belief that the west found undeveloped savages rather then complex multicultural settlements throughout pre colonial Africa.

As a society we still do not make any effort to portray the truth about Africa pre colonisation. Hardly a surprise young brits grow up dumb to reality.

That said. Some how thinking Europe was a bastion of peace and goodwill to all nations in the 17 and 1800s. While the Africans were constantly at war.

Yeah thats real idiotic with no excuse.

[–] titaniumarmor@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The word you want is “razed” (instead of “raised”).

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk -2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Sorry nope.

Only if you are American. And as I'm in the UK talking about our history. I'll stick with UK English

[–] fondue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

US English also uses raze. Raise a barn to build it. Raze a barn to destroy it.

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