More out of curiosity than judgement; why is this on HN?
Because white people paying respects to their racist colonial master.
Have some respect for ww2 veterans.
Prince Philip has died
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a Brit I agree wholeheartedly with your first paragraph. Re your second, you are a much more mature and compassionate person than I am about this. I am completely ambivalent about his death. He was a very old man who lived a spectacularly privileged life and had little to no worries. I care not a jot whether he found peace.
I think that says more about your character than that of the Duke of Edinburgh.
What might that be?
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it’s interesting that you’d blame this family for the horrors of colonialism. They haven’t had a say in British policy for around 2 centuries. Although the monarch meets the Prime Minister every week, they cannot tell the PM what to do, unless it affects the royal family personally. The PM listens to what they have to say but charts their own course. If you’re looking for someone to blame, Churchill deserves…
Unfortunately people are very quick to assign "generational guilt" these days. It's as if we've gone backwards, and are no longer capable of being individuals. "Oh, you're white/black/related to x/decended from y, did you know your ancestors did *that*?"
They are quick to assign generational guilt because they still have to live with the consequences of what happened those generations ago.
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#124Because Prince Charles is heir to the throne (and has been portrayed more negatively in the news media than any other living person), some in the HN community may be surprised to know that he wrote a book on philosophy . https://www.amazon.com/Harmony-New-Way-Looking-World/dp/0061... I found the book to be astonishingly good. It takes a design approach to Platonism and western esotericism. It goes deep into "sacred g…
> (and has been portrayed more negatively in the news media than any other living person) Bold statement.
Considering Prince Andrew exists, it's a false statement.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
France got rid of their monarchy some time ago. They still get plenty of tourism. I can give plenty of other examples where the royal family was let go and tourism continued to flourish. The important thing is that all of the palaces and castles would still exist and become open to the public as museums. If anything, tourism would improve if people could visit Buckingham Palace like they visit the Palace at Versaille…
Yeah, that getting rid of the monarchy thing, that worked out well in France.
If you're trying to be ironic, you have to keep in mind France is and has been a republic for 160 years.
So yeah, getting rid of the monarchy seems to have worked.
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#127I really wish we could just do away with all this royal family nonsense. You guys are somehow special because what? Useless social fiction from antiquity.
Kardassians seem to have more adoration
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Guldukat.jpg
They got nothing on Gul Dukat.
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#128I really wish we could just do away with all this royal family nonsense. You guys are somehow special because what? Useless social fiction from antiquity.
I find the idea of a royal family far more inspiring and wholesome than the celebrity culture which has overtaken the West. The vast majority of celebrities get far more air time, live in more obscene luxury, and are more condescending, than the entire royal family put together. One of my biggest worries about Meghan was that celebrity culture would begin seeping into the royal family - and unfortunately it looks lik…
I find both disappointing but unsurprising.
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#129More out of curiosity than judgement; why is this on HN?
I guess he was an influencer? Or maybe he got hacked, one of the two
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#130I really wish we could just do away with all this royal family nonsense. You guys are somehow special because what? Useless social fiction from antiquity.
Clearly you know NOTHING about Monarchy, their history and traditions. You’re getting it twisted because of this whole “the royal family are racist” baloney
This is an opportunity to educate. When you make comments like this what you're actually doing is locking in someone's opinion by making them defend it against nothing.