What does /his/ think of King Leopold II?
>>18785300This video caused such an uproar that even that Brazilian pedophile spammer went crying on Twitter lol
This one above obsessed on calling me a pedophile for exposing the Alfred Kinsey and Manuel Schadwald affair on 4chan is so mentally ill that he simply created an fake account in X pretending to be me, and I had to contact the X team, handing over my identity, to get his account taken down for impersonation, hue.Keep doing that so I can keep criminal proofs.https://x.com/Abenis_my_sides https://archive.is/qXzXB (Fun fact: The account is really based in Brazil, he's a self-hating sicko)>>18785300Repeated threads deserve repeated responses:Adam Hochschild used the inflated propaganda of explorer Henry Morton Stanley as a mathematical starting point, accepting the fictitious estimate that the Congo had a population of 20 to 30 million in 1880. He cross-referenced this guess with the first actual Belgian census of 1924 (which recorded 10 million) and with colonial reports by the Commission Instituée pour la Protection des Indigènes from 1919—which claimed the population had been halved—to reach the incorrect conclusion that 10 million deaths had occurred.However, serious historians and modern demographers Jan Vansina and Jean-Paul Sanderson have proven that Stanley fabricated the initial figures to attract commercial investors.By recalculating the data based on a realistic starting population of 11.5 to 15 million, these experts demonstrated that the actual total demographic loss was between 1.5 and 5 million deaths (a reduction of 10% to 43% of the population).When breaking down this range of losses into absolute figures, the tragedy unfolds across four fronts: mass disease was the primary culprit, accounting for 60% to 70% of the tragedy (0.9 to 3.5 million deaths) through devastating epidemics of sleeping sickness, smallpox, and dysentery.
>>18785460This outbreak was directly linked to the rubber trade, as workers were forced to spend weeks in humid environments teeming with tsetse flies (vectors for sleeping sickness) for private companies such as the ABIR (Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company), the Société Anversoise (Société Anversoise de Commerce au Congo), and the Compagnie du Kasaï.King Leopold held a 50% stake in each of these private companies, as he was the sole owner and shareholder of the Congo Free State—which was, in effect, his own personal Ancapistan.While the constant movement of colonial troops spread pathogens along trade routes, and the unsanitary confinement of hostages triggered fatal dysentery crises, factors such as famine, exhaustion, and forced displacement accounted for 15% to 20% of the losses (0.23 to 1.0 million deaths)—a consequence of the abandonment of agriculture and the flight of families into the forests.Direct killings and the military brutality of the Force Publique—used as a form of psychological terror—accounted for 5% to 10% of the total (0.05 to 0.8 million deaths).Finally, and most significantly, a drastic decline in the birth rate had a cumulative effect; the separation of families and the internment of individuals prevented the birth of millions of Congolese children.Furthermore, while the practice of cut off hands was widespread in the Free State of Congo, it did not function as a policy of direct physical extermination carried out exclusively by White/Belgium individuals.
I applaud his humanistic policies
>>18785463In reality, the Force Publique (the colonial militia controlled by the King Leopold) had an extremely small contingent of Belgian officers relative to the vastness of the territory and the large Congolese population. Consequently, the majority of its troops consisted of local natives, often tribal enemies of the villages they attacked, who possessed little to no moderm military experience, save for those who had acquired modern weapons through the slave trade with Zanzibar, which, under the influence of figures like Tippu Tip, had dominated the eastern Congo prior to the arrival of the Belgians.Due to the overwhelming numerical disparity, and in order to maintain strict control and avoid superfluous expenditure, the Belgian colonial authorities established a severe and inflexible financial policy: every bullet cartridge distributed to the native soldiers of the Force Publique carried an extremely high cost and had to be rigorously accounted for.To ensure that soldiers did not hoard ammunition for a potential future armed rebellion, or simply waste the rounds, Belgian junior officers required that, for every bullet fired, a soldier produce a severed human right hand, serving as proof that the cartridge had been used to neutralize and kill an alleged rebel.This macabre bureaucratic dynamic transformed severed hands into a form of currency and a tool for military accounting. Because the Belgian state frequently left its soldiers without provisions or pay, the militiamen were forced to use their rifles to hunt wild game for their own subsistence.Knowing they would be severely punished by white officers—who remained at their headquarters, indifferent to the troops' hunger—for any shortage of ammunition, soldiers of the Force Publique falsified their ammunition reports.
>>18785467They would raid peaceful villages and sever the hands of living people—including women and children—to account for (and thereby conceal) the bullets they had actually spent on hunting.The system became so degenerated that it gave rise to a scenario of colonial fratricide: to prevent their own tribes or families from being whipped, taken hostage, or executed for failing to meet rubber collection quotas, Congolese individuals from certain communities began raiding neighboring villages. They would sever the hands of other natives and hand them over to the Force Publique as payment for the rubber tax.To intensify psychological terror and ensure total submission, Leopold II’s colonial regime deliberately even employed the services of a feared cannibalistic mercenary militia: the Zappo Zaps.Originating from a subgroup of the Songye people, this group included warriors who were integrated into the official structure of the Force Publique while also operating as outside shock troops contracted by the colonial state. They were easily identified by their distinct cultural body modifications, which included front teeth filed into sharp points, as well as facial tattoos.In 1899, for instance, the Belgians dispatched the Zappo Zaps to crush and plunder the Kuba Kingdom, which had been resisting demands for the collection of resources. Reports from missionaries at the time describe the group’s extreme sadism; they not only severed the hands of their victims—drying them over fires to present to white officers as a "body count"—but also systematically dismembered and devoured both prisoners and the dead in acts of ritual cannibalism.Belgian officers were fully aware of these practices yet chose to turn a blind eye, as the widespread horror effectively paralyzed any attempt at revolt by the local population.
>>18785300I have to Heil him because his story is incredibly kino.People twisting themselves into knots to cover a dead man's fuckups are retarded, though. If you really want to apologize colonialism there are better ways to do it.
>>18785471>If you really want to apologize colonialism there are better ways toYou can't. Colonialism brought forth globohomo, you cannot make up for that
>>18785300Did he really kill a gorillion negroes or is it a loe?
>>18785524In the previous Leopold thread (archived.moe/his/thread/18667412) no conclusion on the death toll was reached.Apparently the most extensive work on the demographics of colonial Congo has been done by Jean-Paul Sanderson (who also contributed to the Colonial Congo book) and he doesn't seem to present any definitive statementhttps://research.dial.uclouvain.be/entities/publication/9a1b7025-9d62-49cf-b317-8131c83d6490He also has a newer book called Démographie coloniale congolaise: Entre spéculation, idéologie et reconstruction historique (2022) of which there's no pdf available.
>>18785470This specific series of drawings reminds me that the Congo Free State had to issue a memo to all its employees asking them to please not feed any more children to Cannibals in response to the scandal.
>>18785467The claim that the belgian authority expected its tribal militia to account for a 1:1 shots fired to kill ratio is so ridiculous on its face that it betrays your favela monkey swarthoid IQ level for taking it seriously. Maybe if they didn't want them to horde ammunition, they could have idk, maybe not given it to them in the first place? And then you claim the belgian officers were aware of how much destruction this was causing and how much it was lowering production output (the entire reason they were there to begin with) but they were just epic nihilists who simply didn't care o algo? You are likely simply projecting your own incompetence and stupidity onto europeans, probably because you are some kind of self hating mutt. Or maybe you really are just that stupid, who knows.
Why did he want rubber so bad?soaring global industrial demand for rubber for automobile tires and bicycle tubes.The global demand for rubber between 1885 and 1908 transformed from a modest industrial market into a massive international boomThe invention and commercialization of inflatable rubber tires—first for bicycles in the late 1880s and rapidly afterward for automobiles in the 1890s—caused a sudden, explosive spike in global industrial need for rubber.Between 1885 and 1908, the bicycle transformed from an unstable novelty into the modern safety bicycle, sparking a global cycling boom before mass transit and affordable automobiles reshaped personal travel. During this twenty-three-year span, rapid engineering breakthroughs standardized the bicycle's frame, wheels, and drivetrain into a blueprint still used today1890s The Great Bicycle Craze Mass production pushed annual output past 1 million bikes in the U.S. alone by 1899Between 1885 and 1908, the automobile transformed from an experimental novelty into a foundational mode of modern transportation
>>18786139>The claim that the belgian authority expected its tribal militia to account for a 1:1 shotsThere were no shots, the Force Publique only did that to villages that rebelled against the system. Within a typical patrol of the Force Publique or rubber companies, each soldier individually carried between 10 and 30 bullets, which meant that an entire patrol carried between 100 and 900 bullets in total, depending on the size of the group. Because ammunition was strictly rationed to prevent riots, and Congolese soldiers needed to conserve projectiles both for hunting animals for food and for maintaining reserves, they had to avoid wasting bullets executing non-rebel Congolese people. The official rule imposed by the Belgian commanders specifically demanded the right hand of each alleged dead rebel (most of Congolese villagers were not rebels and weren't even killed, their hand was simply cut off as an excuse for the rubber quota when it was actually due to bullets of the Force Publique). This is wjy the vast majority of Congolese recorded in photos and reports of the time (as the Casement Report) appear missing only their right hand.To use most of their bullets for hunting and reserves, a typical patrol would need to kill between 140 and 810 Congolese (considering a margin of 70% to 90% of the total ammunition diverted), which exceeds the entire population of a typical rural village (50 to 300 inhabitants). This is precisely why Congolese villagers attacked other villages for hands or rebelled against Force Publique, increasing the carnage and demographic decline.
>>18785463>he was the sole owner and shareholder of the Congo Free StateWe used to call this an absolute monarchy. We had a lot of those back in the 1890s, but of course no one calls Nicholas the sole owner and shareholder of Russia...
>>18786164He needed the rubber to fund the colonial enterprise. The Belgian state absolutely did not want to touch the colony. Contrary to popular belief, most colonies operated at a loss, and the socialists in particular feared any colonial undertaking would drain the state (aka the pension fund). Leopold has to fund everything out of pocket and nearly went bankrupt on three separate occasions. Even after the whole propaganda war, the belgian parliament passed the acquisition of the Congo only by a single vote.
>>18786164>1890s The Great Bicycle CrazeMeanwhile in the US:The Jim Crow Era)• Disenfranchisement Laws: Starting with Mississippi in 1890, Southern states rewrote their constitutions to strip Black men of voting rights. They used poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses to bypass the 15th Amendment.• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): The U.S. Supreme Court upheld racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. This ruling legalized Jim Crow laws across schools, transit, and public spaces for decades.• Racial Violence: Lynching and mob violence surged across the South as tools of racial terror and economic control. In July 1908, the U.S. government established the Bureau of Investigation (later the FBI)
>>18786164Meanwhile in Paris:Henry Ossawa Tanner was the first African American artist to achieve international recognitionFleeing racial prejudice in Philadelphia, African American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner moved to Paris in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian. >Expatriate Life: Facing severe racial discrimination in the United States, he relocated to Paris, France, in 1891. He died on May 25, 1937, in Paris, France.He achieved major international acclaim at the Paris Salon, and in 1897 the French government purchased his painting The Resurrection of Lazarus for France's national museum of modern art>Recognizing its deep emotional power and artistic dignity, the French government purchased the canvas directly from the Salon—a rare and prestigious honor for a non-French citizen.>During his lifetime, this was the painting for which he was most known, his "masterwork". Since his death in 1937, secular tastes have pushed The Banjo Lesson to the top place in public esteem.Historic 2012 Exhibition: it remained in France for over a century before displayed in Philadelphia for the very first time in 2012 as the centerpiece of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts retrospective, Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit.Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Resurrection of Lazarus was exhibited in Philadelphia in 2012 (following a late-2011 send-off event in Paris) and a U.S. Tour before returning to France to its permanent home at the Musée d'Orsay in ParisThe Musée d'Orsay is globally significant as the world's premier museum for 19th- and early 20th-century art (1848–1914)
>>18786164At the same time, Belgium produced a Belgian Catholic priest that became a Saint:Damien De Veuster, popularly known as Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai 1864, Damien arrived at Honolulu Harbor right as Hawaii began quarantining people with leprosy. Those with the most serious cases were relocated to Kalawao, a new settlement of leprosy patients From 1866 through 1969, approximately 8,000 Hawaiians were sent to KalawaoAfter much prayer, Damien volunteered to go to Kalawao. 1873 until his death in 1889 - He ministered to the Kalawao leper colony Damien started working with the residents to build a church and parish. He conducted classes, painted houses, and helped with the construction of chapels, roads, hospitals, and churches. The residents established basic laws, working farms and schools.He also dressed residents' ulcers, dined with them, and lived with them as equals. Damien told the residents that they were always precious in the eyes of God.
>>18785300Idk
Does this pedophile actually think anyone is reading this spam? Mods, this user is evading a ban and frequently posts pornographic content here. Keep an eye on him. Seriously, does this absolute freak actually think anyone is afraid of him? another thing, dear mods, in another thread, he was posting false personal information about someone else.
>>18786657>he was posting false personal information about someone else.That doxxing shit wasn't his? Was it someone else or what?
>>18786671No, you’re not getting it. He took false information from someone else and posted it as his own as "bait" he literally admitted to this. now he’s claiming he’s filing criminal charges against everyone who dared to call him out for this petty behavior. Just look at how his story keeps changing, first I was Portuguese, then I was Argentine, and now I’m a Zuca who supposedly faked an account to impersonate him lol. He even accused me of being some random Argentine he found on Twitter He’s conflating every user here with anyone else who happens to insult him.>>18785300Anyway, to answer the OP Adam Hochschild was a liar. It’s not as if no one at the time had ever criticized his methodology. He uses distorted quotes, and regardless of whether colonialism was good or bad no serious historian should have a pre-defined agenda like this idiot does. It’s intellectual dishonesty. The estimate of 10 million deaths has always been criticized, and there is no objective data to support this figure. Reliable census data from the period is lacking, and many accounts of depopulation are, to say the least, speculative.Furthermore, there is no denying that the Congo Reform Association and figures like Edmund Morel were operating under the funding of Western businessmen.
>>18786671It wasn't from a real person. He made up names and numbers by copying from some random YouTuber who faked this for baiting.
Unbelievable. The pedozilian is like >France >Hawaii >IA and copy-paste >posting random Twitter accountskek Hey idiot if you're not going to contribute anything, why do you keep posting irrelevant and unimportant things? Besides are you afraid to use that ugly face of yours, idiot? What happened? Did you realize that this is also against the rules? Get out of here because nobody likes you, nobody can stand you, and nobody takes you seriously, porn addict tard
>In 1885, a high-profile trial at the Old Bailey in England exposed an international sex-trafficking ring that supplied underage girls to luxury brothels in London. Leopold II was named in the court records as one of the primary clients, paying large sums for English girls aged 10 to 15, an accusation he did not even bother to formally deny>At the age of 64, Leopold II began a public affair with Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix, a 16-year-old French prostitute. The scandal shocked conservative Belgian society and the Catholic Church, especially since the King was still married to Queen Marie Henriette>Leopold II granted Blanche the title of Baroness de Vaughan, fathered two children with her, and diverted millions of francs, derived from rubber extraction in the Congo, to purchase castles, jewelry, and properties for her in France and Belgium. Days before his death in 1909, he married her in a secret religious ceremonyThis sicko is so obsessed with me that he’s defending a royal pedophile like Marc Dutroux, hue.
>>18786767>>18786778Hey, watch out! He said he's a super lawyer now and is threatening to sue everyone here lmao Oh be careful too, cause he's going to start calling you guys Argentinians, Brazilians, Portuguese, and who knows what else this predator imagined
I don't understand, does this Santero also have an account on Xiter? what does this have to do with the thread? Why are we talking about Twitter profiles?
>>18786790>what does this have to do with the thread? Why are we talking about Twitter profiles?We're not. I follow the creator of the OP's video, and this predator in question made a long ESL thread "refuting" the video. Then I looked at his profile and interestingly, His behavior was exactly the same, with the same type of spam and disgusting way of writing, the same horrible topics, but it wasn't him! (laughs) And then his account was suspended there, and now he's saying it wasn't him, but someone else who impersonated him because... well, just because. It's a shame I didn't take a screenshot. mods, again, this user is practically evading a ban. Last time I refer to people who have a profane taste for poor children.
>>18786801>I follow the creator of the OP's video, and this predator in question made a long ESL thread "refuting" the videoPost it.
>>18785300I just found out that his sister was apparently Empress of Mexico and went crazy
>>18785518>>18785471Lets keep colonialism and drop liberalism. its time to optimize.
>>18786781It was precisely these scandals with powerful people involving child trafficking and prostitution in Victorian England during the Second Industrial Revolution such as this particular case and a prominent journalistic investigation published shortly thereafter that served as the direct catalyst for the creation of the first modern laws against pedophilia in the Western World.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Frances_Jeffries>Mary Frances Jeffries (1819 – 1891) was a madam and procuror in London's underworld during the late 19th century>During the 1870s, she ran one of the few brothels in Victorian-era London which catered exclusively to many of the city's elite including the prominent businessmen and politicians including at least one member of the House of Lords and a titled Guards officer as well as aristocrats such as King Leopold II of Belgium>She was also involved in sexual slavery (known then as "white slavery") and child prostitution, often arranging the abduction of children by offering to watch children while parents went to collect luggage or purchase train tickets>Among her brothels in Church Street and Kensington as well as a flagellation house in Hampstead, included a "chamber of horrors" in Gray's Inn Road where a room was designed for the purposes of sado-masochism as described by journalist William Thomas Stead in a series of articles for the Pall Mall Gazette exposing prostitution in the city during the Eliza Armstrong case. Although never proven, she may have operated a white slave house along the river near Kew, from which women were abducted and smuggled to foreign countries (see sexual slavery and human trafficking)
>>18787146>In 1884, Alfred Dyer's London Committee obtained evidence of a high class Chelsea brothel operated by Jeffries. An investigation by a former police inspector, who had resigned from the Metropolitan Police when senior officials refused to prosecute her, had been amassing evidence against Jeffries during the year until the London Commission began a private prosecution in March 1885. This investigation included many witnesses from the brothels, including Lola Shropshire, Leona Noman, and Agnes Moris. These witnesses unfortunately had no clear evidence and were soon dismissed>Although unable to charge Jeffries with any serious offence apart from keeping a disorderly house, the Commission expected much publicity from the case when presenting their evidence. For example, a former housemaid testified that she witnessed an assault on a 13-year-old girl who had been whipped by a belt and raped by a customerWhen Mary Jeffries escaped imprisonment by paying only a fine in May 1885, an act intended to protect her aristocratic clients, such as Leopold II, feminist and abolitionist movements of the time denounced the British judicial system’s complicity with the elite. For years, legislative bills aimed at raising the age of consent had been blocked in the House of Lords by conservative politicians who feared that wealthy men might become targets of blackmail by younger women.To break the political stalemate, activist Josephine Butler and journalist William Thomas Stead published a series of shocking reports in the Pall Mall Gazette in July 1885, titled The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon. To demonstrate how the system operated, Stead purchased a 13-year-old girl named Eliza Armstrong from her own mother for £5, had a midwife verify her virginity, and took her to a brothel without abusing her (he subsequently rescue/sent her safely to France, where she was placed under the care of the Salvation Army).
>>18787156The reports ignited massive public outcry in London, with approximately 250,000 people marching in Hyde Park to demand justice. Facing intense public pressure, the British Parliament hastily passed the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885. The legislation raised the age of consent from 13 to 16, criminalized the procurement and trafficking of minors for the purpose of prostitution, granted the police the authority to raid brothels suspected of harboring children, and served as a legal model for other nations across Europe and the Americas in the years that followed.>The White March (French: Marche blanche; Dutch: Witte Mars; German: Weißer Marsch) was a demonstration in Brussels on 20 October 1996 after serial killer and criminal Marc Dutroux was arrested. The demonstrators wanted better protection for children and a better functioning justice system that could investigate the Dutroux affair independently. In French, peaceful demonstrations commemorating victims (memorial marches) are called "marches blanches">On 20 October about 300,000 people (estimates range from 275,000 to 350,000, around 3% of Belgium's population)
you don't get to claim the high ground after trying to avatarfag with actual CP, pedozilian
>posting censored pics from German criminal declassified files and public documentaries that aired on Dutch open TV in a thread discussing elite pedo rings on 4chan is the same as literally being the perpetrator of these crimeThe sicko literally thinks me of irl kidnapping and molesting children in the streets for posting biographies of proto-Epstein on 4chan. Keep accusing of worse things so that the lawsuit ends up being hundreds of pages long.
Thankfully no one can look in the archives and see what happens when you try to post with the original 'my sides', you pedophile freak
Okay, other than a favelamonkey with a penchant for posting CP ('epically' disguised by hex editing!), does anyone else have thoughts on King Leopold II
Do you get away with it because you're actually one of the mods, or are the mods closeted nonces that think it's heckin' based to own the chuds by getting away with avatarfagging with CP?
>does anyone else have thoughts on King Leopold IIA real pedophile from the same stipe as Marc Dutroux and the ring that kidnapped Manuel Schadwald that you are defending.
Is the favelamonkey malding because the magical blacks clearly aren't helping haitian street gangs defeat the salvadorans slapping them around kek
>>18785518Well I meant "more effective" when I wrote better.>>18787035There's nothing to keep any more. But more importantly, colonialism and liberalism were, at times, close friends.>>18787203The man was very interesting. But his legacy has become just another husk for people to culture war over.
>>18787212Given how the thread turned out it OP was likely just brazilinonce trying to find an excuse to chimp out
>>18785300
>>18787218All he needed was a plane ticket to a brazilian favela
The greatest combination of colonialism and liberalism by King Leopold II was that, because of his unhappy marriage to Queen Marie Henriette of Austria and his disdain for his three daughters (Louise, Stephanie, and Clementine) for not being male heirs, he prevented them from inheriting his immense personal fortune, creating shell foundations in Germany and France, violating Belgian succession laws. After his death, the princesses sued the Belgian state and Caroline Lacroix (the commoner child prostitute to whom Leopold II granted the title of Baroness of Vaughan and transferred millions of francs, properties on the French Riviera, and luxurious jewels) in public and humiliating legal disputes to try to recover part of the assets misappropriated by their father.Leopold II was so unscrupulous that he forbade his eldest daughter, Princess Louise, from attending her own mother's funeral in 1902, as she had divorced and become involved in debts and love scandals.This is your idol. A man despised by his own family for his greed and depravity.
>>18787222If he was born in Brazil he would've been king of a favela 2bh
>>18787222He was unironically Belgium's most accomplished king, even when disregarding the colony. Under his reign Belgium became an industrial powerhouse, he built numerous impressive landmarks, and modernized the belgian military (not that it would help against germany...). It seems to be a common occurence in history that assholes make for good kings, whereas kind hearted men make weak kings.
>>18787218Oh look, the Muslim terrorist (redundant) got triggered and is spamming his little macro across the board.Muslims worship tiny-dick Mohammed, how else could he fit it in a 9yr old?
>>18787222>his second son by Caroline Lacroix was born with a deformed handI thought that kind of ironic justice thing only happened in myths
>>18786804I think you didn't understand my post. I can't post anything because I don't have any screenshots. He was suspended from there probably because he was spamming every commenter he disagreed with, just like he does here. I also remember that his profile picture was that disgusting face from the Face App that not even a mother could love, or something like that, which he posted here. I don't remember the content that predator wrote, but it was probably garbage copied and pasted from some dead Blogspot or pornography.>>18787160>>18787205>>18787210Pedozilian said he's a lawyer or is becoming one (probably paying someone inside) and watch out because he's going to sue everyone.
>>18787411>I think you didn't understand my post. I can't post anything because I don't have any screenshotsThen post the link to that thread from desuarchive or this never happened.
>>18787429Wtf are you that Brazilian pedophile or are you dumb and can't read? I'm talking about a post on ***Twitter***. That's literally what I said. Tell me, Is it possible for to follow "someone" here on /his/, genius?
>>18787565So you can't post because it was from an X account that was deleted for being fake?
>>18787365>>18787222Germany was right invaded Belgium
>>18786994who
>>18785300I think a person’s opinion of Leopold II is the perfect test whether a person is a midwit or a person who seriously considers history as an intellectual pursuit.
>>18788178Cute latina-coded wife