 um what is this i don't know me neither just how we like it our stupid reactions welcome for stupid reactions idiots i'm caravan aka chris pratt this is rick aka debra please don't unsubscribe uh so today we'll be reacting to a i believe quite a long video it's 15 minutes oh but apparently it's quite requested it's apparently an amazing speech almost six million views but we got it this is like a person's real speech here a person's real speech so we're going to react to their speech yeah it's called doctor read it shashi the roar uh-huh uh britain does owe reparations yeah what's that mean that means that they should pay india for all the crap they put them through i mean that's probably true yeah i'm guaranteed it's true i mean i mean britain's pretty much kind of i mean it's good that they left but they kind of left them in the toilet and said clean it up yourself yeah don't give me a long one stick with us since we're doing this one people have said when we do these that if we have a comment we should pause it yeah yeah so i like the whole time we're talking over it i've seen that yeah people are like hey i get why uh people said don't talk during the video during the 15 things you don't know right but then it's also really funny it's because it's funny we like your stupidity and how much you make up your mind we're gonna we so we can i guarantee if i pause it you're gonna be like don't pause the video yeah listen to him you should be watching there's gonna be people commenting we don't like that either so what do you think what should we do deal with it yeah whatever we do whatever you're dealing with strap it i hope this has that is the house standing here with eight minutes in my hands and uh this venerable and other magnificent institution i was going to assure you that i belong to the henry the eight school of public speaking that as henry the eight said to his wives i shall not keep you long but now finding myself the seventh speaker out of eight in what must already seem a rather long evening to you i rather feel like henry the eight's last wife i more or less know what's expected of me but i'm not sure how to do it any differently he has a great voice he does so perhaps what i should do is very try and pay attention to the arguments that were advanced by the opposition today we had for example Sir Richard Ottoway suggesting they're challenging the very idea that it could be argued that the economic situation of the colonies was actually worsened by the experience of British colonialism when i stand to offer you the Indian example Sir Richard india share of the world economy when britain arrived on its shores was 23 percent by the time the British left it was down to below four percent why simply because india had been governed for the benefit of britain in britain's rise for 200 years was financed by its depredations in india in fact britain's industrial revolution was actually premised upon the deindustrialization of india the handloom weavers for example famed across the world whose products were exported around the world britain came right in there were actually these weavers making fine muslin lightest woven air it was said and britain came right and smashed their thumbs broke their looms in post tariffs and duties on their cloth and products and started of course taking the raw materials from india and shipping back manufactured cloth flooding the world's markets with what became the products of the dark and satanic mills of victor we don't have any fact check verification with this what do you think or in england that uh meant that the weavers in india became beggars and india went from being a world famous exporter of finished cloth into an importer went from having 27 percent of world trade to to less than two percent meanwhile colonialists like robert clive bought their rotten burrows in england on the proceeds of their loot in india while taking the hindi word loot into their dictionaries as well as their habits uh what british had the gall to call him clive of india as if he belonged to the country when all he really did was to ensure that much of the country belonged to him in the 19th century the fact is that india was already britain's biggest cash cow the world's biggest purchaser of british goods and exports and the source of highly paid employment for british civil servants we literally paid for our own oppression and as has been pointed out the wealthy victorian british families that made their money out of out of the slave economy one fifth of of the of the elites of the wealthy class in britain in the 19th century owed their money to transporting three million africans across the waters and in fact in 1833 when slavery was abolished what happened was that a compensation of 20 million pounds was paid not as reparations to those who had lost their lives or or who had suffered who'd been oppressed by slavery but to those who had lost their property i was struck by the fact that your wi-fi password of this union commemorates the name of mr gladstone the great liberal hero well i'm sorry his family was one of those who benefited from the from the compensation staying with india between 15 and 29 million indians died of starvation in british induced families the most famous example of course was the great bengal famine during the second world war when four million people died because winston church who deliberately as a matter of written militant policy proceeded to divert essential supplies from civilians in bengal to sturdy tomies and europeans as reserves stockpiles he said that the starvation of any way underfoot underfed bengalese mattered much less than that of sturdy greeks this is church's actual quote and when conscious trican british officials wrote to him pointing out that people were dying because of this decision he peevishly wrote in the margins of the file why hasn't gone the died yet so all notions of the british were trying to do their colonial enterprise of enlightened despotism to try and bring the benefits of of colonialism and civilization to the binighted even i'm sorry church's conduct in 43 simply one example of many that gave a lie to this myth as others have said on the proposition violence and racism were the reality of the colonial experience and no wonder that the sun never sat set on the british empire because even god couldn't trust the english in the dark world world one is a very concrete example since the first speaker mr lee suggested these things couldn't be quantified well let me quantify world war one for you again i'm sorry from an indian perspective others have spoken of other countries one sixth of all the british forces that fought on the war were indian 54 000 indians actually lost their lives in that war 65 000 were wounded another 4 000 remained missing or in prison indian taxpayers had to cough up 100 million pounds in that time's money india supplied 70 million rounds of ammunition 600 thousand rifles and machine guns 42 million garments were stitched and sent out of india and 1.3 million indian personnel served in this war i know all this because of course the the commemoration of the centenary has just taken place but not just that india had to supply 173 73 000 animals 370 million tons of supplies and in the end the total value of everything that was taken out of india india and india by the way suffering from recession at that time and poverty and hunger was in today's money eight billion pounds you want quantification it's available second world war it was even worse two and a half million indians in uniform i won't believe the point but of britain's total war debt of three billion pounds in 1945 money 1.25 billion was owed to india and never actually paid somebody mentioned scotland well the fact is that collodionism actually cemented your union with scotland you know the scots had actually tried to send colonies out uh before 1707 they'd all failed i'm sorry to say but then of course came union and india was available and there you had a disproportionate employment of scots i'm sorry mr mcgenzi has to speak after me engage in this collodion enterprise as soldiers as merchants as agencies employees and the earnings from india is what brought prosperity to scotland even pulled pulled scotland out of poverty now that india's you're longer there no wonder the bonds are loosening now we've had other arguments on this side there's been a attention of the railway well let me tell you first of all as my colleague the jamaican high commissioner pointed out railways and roads were really built to serve british interests and not those of the local people but i might add that many countries have built railways and roads without having had to be colonized in order to do so they were designed to carry raw materials from the hinterland into the ports to be shipped to britain and the fact is that the indian or jamaican or other colonial public their needs were incidental transportation there was no attempt made to match supply to demand for mass transport none whatsoever instead in fact the indian railways were built with massive incentives offered by britain to british investors guaranteed out of indian taxes paid by indians with the result that you actually had one mile of indian railway costing twice what it cost to build the same mile in canada or australia because there was so much money being paid and extravagant returns britain made all the profits control the technology supplied all the equipment and absolutely all these benefits came as private enterprise british private enterprise at public risk indian public risk that was the the railways as an accomplishment we're hearing about aid i think it was it was it was again sir it's an otterway mentioned uh british aid to india well let me just point out that british aid to india is about 0.4 percent of india's gdp the government of india actually spends more on fertilizers subsidies which might be an appropriate metaphor for that if i may point out as well savage he's really witty he's savage witty if i may point out as well that um that as my fellow speakers from the proposition that pointed out there have been incidents of racial violence of loot of massacres of bloodshed of transportation in india's case even of one of our our last movile emperor yes maybe today's britains are not responsible for some of these depredations but the same speakers appointed with pride to their foreign aid you're not responsible for the people starving in somalia but to give them aid surely the principle of reparations for what is for the wrongs that have been done cannot be denied it's been pointed out for example the dehumanization of africans and the caribbean the massive psychological damage that has been done the undermining of social traditions of property rights of of the authority structures of these societies all in the interests of of of british colonialism and the fact remains that many of today's problems in these countries including the persistence in some cases the creation of racial and ethnic and religious tensions were the direct result of the colonial experience so there is a moral debt that needs to be paid good point someone challenged reparations elsewhere well i'm sorry germany doesn't just give reparations to israel it also gave reparations to poland perhaps some of the speakers here are too young to remember the dramatic picture of chancellor willy brunt on his knees in the war so ghetto in 1970 and there are other examples there is it it is reparations to libya there's japan's to korea even britain has paid reparations to the new zealand maoris so it's not as if this is something unprecedented around her that's going to somehow open some sort of nasty pandora's box no wonder professor louis reminded us that he's from texas there's a wonderful expression in texas that summarizes the arguments of the opposition all hats and no cattle now if i can just quickly look through the other notes i was filming while they were speaking there was reference to democracy and rule of law let me say with the greatest possible respect you can it's a bit rich to oppress enslave kill torture main people for 200 years and then celebrate the fact that they're democratic at the end of it denied democracy so we had to snatch it seize it from you that's right with the greatest reluctance it was conceded in india's case after 150 years of traditional and that too with limited franchise yes indeed man i don't think that needs uh needs contradiction not for me at any rate but if i may just if i may just point out i think the argument made by a couple of the speaker the first speaker mr lee in particular conceded all the evil atrocities of colonialism but essentially suggested reparations won't really help they won't help the right people that uses a propaganda tool then emboldened people like mr mugabe it's always nice high in the old days you know uh i'm sorry to say that uh the the people of the caribbean used to frighten their children into behaving and sleeping by saying sir france's drink would come after them that was a legacy of that now it's mugabe will be there this is the the news of sir france's drink of our times the fact is the fact is very simply sir that we are not talking about reparations as a tool to empower anybody they're a tool for you to atone for the wrongs that have been done and i i am quite prepared to accept the proposition that you can't evaluate put a put a a monetary sum on the kinds of horrors people have suffered certainly no amount of money can expiate the loss of a loved one as somebody pointed out there you're not going to be able to figure out an exact amount but the principle is what matters the fact is that to speak lightly of sacrifices on both sides as an energy was used here a burglar comes into your house ransacks the place tubs his toe and you say well here there was a sacrifice on both sides that i'm sorry to say is not unacceptable is not an acceptable argument sounds like american politics the truth is that um we are not arguing specifically that vast sums of money need to be paid the proposition before this house is the principle of owing reparations not the fine points of how much is owed to whom it should be paid the question is is there a debt does britain all reparations as far as i'm concerned great the ability to acknowledge your wrong that has been done to simply say sorry will go a far far far longer way than some percentage of GDP in in in form in the form of of aid what is required it seems to me is accepting the principle that reparations are owed personally i'd be quite happy if it was one pound a year for the next 200 years after the last 200 years of britain in india thank you very much very impressive great speech it speaks really well proper rhetoric form by concluding and making his point that my speech was not entitled britain should pay reparation it it was does britain owe reparation yeah that the point was i'm not here to say you must pay us i'm here to say you have to agree in the principle that you have by moral obligation this need to admit yeah brilliant yeah you can you can equate a lot of those to american politics and american way of thinking yeah a lot of it kind of goes to as well like in in america at least like at least the relations between white people and african-americans yes though that you it sounds like when people try to explain to white people that they have white privilege right and it's like we don't want anything from you we just need you just need you to admit that it is a thing it is a thing and we need to get agree on it and move past it exactly and heal from it right and so i do love the the every point he made it was all very eloquent and well thought out and he was very witty and i thought very witty yeah um so i like him a lot so yeah i love his voice yes as a voice and i can get that real quick i love that voice but yes and it is for the we uh i we have an understanding obviously about what happened with india getting its independence and he said some things in there were pretty brilliant about the fact that it wasn't some celebratory thing very very different than american independence yeah very very different story yeah and uh there are similarities like you said not just with yeah what happened with with uh african-americans but also you'll hear stuff in america a lot about native americans yeah and what happened to the native americans when we colonized in north america and what is owed them and at least it being stated whether anything's done about it at least people saying you're right we completely obliterated you whether it was you want to admit just that you brought the diseases over yeah that kind of conversation unfortunately that's not it but unfortunately i don't know how many people in our country right now would be able to articulate this kind of speech and rhetoric format in our current even our politicians yeah uh we're we're pretty dumbed down right now but i i'll say the very least yeah um but yeah the uh the i like the information too because obviously we don't know a lot about the that relation and the independence almost yeah um outside of uh gondi but as you all have said he has basically almost did nothing yeah a lot of you said he's a british puppet so we'd be but from american standpoint that's that's kind of what we know and then we have mostly a good view of church oh what from what i've heard from people from india it was not he was not as good as he has made out to be in britain or in america yeah well and he did some pretty there was some shady stuff he did in relationship with russia too as far as what he was willing to give up yeah and who had hurt by giving it up so yeah i'm always um down to learn new things about different cultures so if you have any more videos like this please let us know let us get edger muckated where we're american we're stupid we don't have a good education we don't have much going on here not the one of us have a degree no no we've got a couple horsemen of course we're showing you are biased because obviously if you're stupid you're from the south with a southern accent so that's a fact you know it's just see how freaking stupid we are that we even go right there we just immediately put in a bias that if you're stupid you're from the south but it's a fact you know it's not