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That sounds like loosing control of a protest to me

> I would guess that the British Army et al. killed at least as many people in India as were burned alive as part of funerary rites.

Interesting. What is this based on? When it comes to killings done by the British forces in India one of the most renowned, bloody and regrettable incidents in colonial history in India was the Massacre of Amritsar where British forces lost control and fired on a crowd of protesters. This resulted in around 400 deaths (many more injured). The reason this was such an infamous event is because of how uncharacteristic it was of British rule in India.

British Empire has on the UK National Curriculum since 1988 and was taught in history classes before the introduction of the National Curriculum. This is conveniently forgotten by people looking to make a point. My impression is that a certain type of Brit likes to play this "I'm one of the good ones" role where they admonish their compatriots' ignorance as a strange virtue signal. It involves collecting damning factoids about the worst aspects of of empire (bengal, irish conflicts, slavery etc) with little interest in the subject as a whole.

Trivially demonstrated by immediate downvotes for posting anything left critical on HN

Yep. Reward friends and punish enemies. At long last the right has learned to play the game that the left has played for decades

This kind of intervention can be useful in the right groups but (as with NVC) also provides great cloaking for natural manipulators. For example saying "there is a lot of raised emotion in the room" after an individual has blown their top is a very pointed and passive aggressive thing to do. They will feel even more targeted by the faux neutrality

Procians bothered by the cost and status of Halikaarnian work. Its not about what "AI" can do, its a about what you can convince people AI can do (which to the Procian is one and the same)

I think old distinction between the words "unsociable" meaning not wanting to socialise, and "anti-social" meaning causing trouble to society, is useful. I guess I'm swimming against the tide with this one though

Thought for a moment this would be a transcript of the captivating Adam Curtis documentary by the same name.