#do schools in the NL even teach abt their history with indonesia? how shit the land taxes were bc of them? the leeching? the scapegoating? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ghostlyfurball · 1 year ago

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During the Indonesian revolution to free itself from being a colony of the Netherlands, freedom fighters would rip the blue cloth from the Dutch flag to create the Indonesian flag. [video]

#fucking THANK YOU #many indonesians are very much against the terrible things going on in west papua. but sure generalize us all #that person who said colonization saved their father or w/e from poverty?? boo fucking hoo i guess i dont fucking care.#colonization is justified bc 1 (one) dutchman saved his family from being poor ig #because #gee i wonder how the average indonesian's economic conditions were like when the dutch and the voc reigned over them??#do schools in the NL even teach abt their history with indonesia? how shit the land taxes were bc of them? the leeching? the scapegoating?#is it such a wonder why the liberationists saw every dutch colonist as a threat?? the oppressed fighting back against the oppressors?#and im so tired so so tired of white gays using x nation has discriminatory anti lgbtq+ laws. we fucking know #it's alll anti colonialism until a country has an unfortunately homophobic govt. like are you hearing yourselves

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