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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4819270" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Didn't say they didn't.  I specifically pointed out that [USER=55017]@It will be fine[/USER] was knocking the U.S. as being behind in its treatment of women but various important things happened at different times for different countries.  The U.K. freeing its slaves long before the U.S. doesn't mean suddenly everything got rosy for blacks in the U.K. no more than the Emancipation Proclamation didn't make things fair and equal in the States.  Colonialism isn't capitalism.  It requires projecting military power on other populations to force them into economic subservience.  Free trade wasn't a concept then.  Different time and a much more brutal world.  And we can be just as brutal today if the veneer of economic cooperation is removed.  Ask Hussein.  And what ultimately is likely to happen with China.</p></blockquote><p></p>