Belgian king's brother defends ancestor Leopold II: 'He never went to the Congo'

[drunkenclaudius]

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[anterrabre]

lmao @ that gif!

[dolcefire]

It's from this song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acT_PSAZ7BQ

[new_peteland]

For anyone interested in learning more about what a piece of shit he was, listen to episode 7 and 7b of Behind the Bastards.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=100041354313

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000413757972

and since you’re already listening, go ahead and listen to the rest, especially the 3-parter on Mark Zuckerberg.

[angriest_girl]

This is where I learned about him!

[el_natural]

Thank you, following this podcast! This sounds fantastic...

[kampfbaby]

man i'm so conflicted about robert evans (also he consistently has the weirdest mispronunciations and it makes me crazy). but i've learned a lot and his podcast has some great eps, i esp. liked the paul manafort series and the blackwater ones.

[spiral_mystik]

No. And fuck him.
What kind of idiotic reasoning is that anyway? "It was the people who worked for him! Not him personally!". No shit. It's still his damn fault.
Fuck him again. I hope my ancestors haunt him.

[benihime99]

Leopold was a little shit like his father before him

[miss_icequeen]

This

[stoppelhopser]

Does he have a brussel sprout instead of a brain?

He added: "You have to understand that there were many people who worked for Leopold II and those people really committed abuse, but that doesn't mean Leopold II did."
Like kind old Adolf Hitler who never visited a concentrtion camp and was betrayed by mean old Himmler who killed all the people because he was a pervert?

Nice gif, though.

[kansascshuffle]

You said what I came here to say, that tomorrow we'll be defending Hitler for not knowing what was going on in Poland.