Red Ice TV - King Leopold's “Genocidal” Rule Over Belgian Congo Is A Hoax

00:00:00.000 these kinds of things lies at the foundation of how we got here uh they have turned our history

00:00:05.120 against us they've lied about it they've obfuscated as i said before uh exaggerated propagandized us

00:00:10.160 into thinking that we somehow or even if we directly haven't done it this was like allowed

00:00:15.840 within european civilization and therefore we owe all these other people something we must repay or

00:00:22.560 or think of this one but of course historically we know uh that what we did uh is not worse than

00:00:29.200 any other group did and all of them did it too in fact and some things we were better at and some

00:00:33.040 things we were worse at uh again just like any other group right so i want to talk about the

00:00:37.440 congo king leopold because it was a great piece in the uh the american conservative uh about

00:00:44.080 uh a new book coming out called king hochchild's hoax which is written about king leopold's ghost

00:00:54.080 is that the title by by this so-called uh scholar and historian adam hock child hock hock child

00:01:02.560 but first i want to preface it by playing this trailer because i remember this from years and

00:01:06.080 years ago when you know we weren't covering these types of topics on red eyes we were doing some other

00:01:12.720 things but we came across this uh documentary right uh white king red rubber black death and this is

00:01:22.400 a piece that was going to run on belgian television at the time this is like i forget when this is 2006

00:01:29.680 seven maybe something like it could have been earlier maybe it was from 2003 but i came across it at that

00:01:34.000 point oh look at what they're trying to you know cover they didn't show it in belgium and oh they're

00:01:39.360 trying to cover this up and stuff but of course in hindsight we realize one of the reasons is

00:01:43.120 because it's shoddy academic work and it's a bunch of uh communist anti-white gobbledygook and i'm not a

00:01:49.360 huge fan always of of uh nobility royalty especially these days back then i think they were far more

00:01:57.440 honest and concerned with the subjects that they were supposed to represent uh king leopold i think

00:02:02.480 he's a cousin to queen victoria if i remember that correctly but let's check out this trailer here

00:02:08.080 to to see the framing what the accusations are like how belgium bad eu bad europeans bad white

00:02:15.040 people bad royalty bad right that's the whole framing of this uh so this is from that documentary

00:02:20.240 and then we'll look at the piece uh that american conservative wrote to to debunk some of these claims

00:02:26.880 here we go when a series of missionary photographs arrived in england in the late 19th century they

00:02:40.880 caused outrage the mutilations had been strategically photographed against white for maximum impact

00:02:49.360 the children came from the congo but the man accused of their suffering was white european and royal

00:03:00.240 white european

00:03:06.400 for almost a hundred years evidence has lain dormant of one of the greatest mass murders

00:03:12.560 millions of africans died in one man's quest for wealth and glory 0.97

00:03:17.360 bullshit until adolf hitler arrived on the scene the european standard for cruelty of course so here

00:03:23.280 let me pause there correlation made right it's it's oh my god it's the worst until hitter but then we

00:03:29.360 can fall back on this again right every single time this is the framing leopold ii king of the belgians

00:03:36.880 was the personal owner of one million square miles of central africa and king sovereign of 20 million africans

00:03:46.640 in the 1880s and 90s the world outside africa wanted rubber for its new bicycle and car industries

00:03:58.400 and leopold's congo free state had the world's largest supply of wild rubber

00:04:03.920 the king had struck gold black gold

00:04:14.000 he was determined to get as much rubber to europe as he could and as fast as he could

00:04:18.480 the rubber in this district has cost hundreds of lives and the scenes i have witnessed while unable

00:04:26.640 to help the oppressed have been almost enough to make me wish that i were dead

00:04:30.800 over a period of 20 years leopold turned the congo into a vast labor camp 80 times the size of belgium 0.91

00:04:41.360 in the process making himself into one of the richest men in the world

00:04:46.160 as the number of deaths grew so did his profits this rubber traffic is steeped in blood 0.99

00:04:55.600 and were the natives to rise and sweep every white person on the upper congo into eternity 0.93

00:05:01.760 there would still be left a fearful balance to their credit

00:05:04.560 but the longer the king stayed in the congo the greater the evidence against him missionaries

00:05:15.920 travelers and the victims all added to the clamor for the king to be stopped

00:05:21.120 Qué i will see

00:05:41.920 The

00:05:47.760 I'm not a man.

00:05:54.780 I'm not a man.

00:05:56.620 I'm a man.

00:06:07.080 Astonishingly, for the time, there were calls for Leopold

00:06:10.480 to be hanged at the new International Court of Justice in The Hague.

00:06:14.560 If there were such thing as criminal prosecutions in international affairs,

00:06:21.720 then assuredly a true bill would be found against a sovereign

00:06:25.060 who obtained not a paltry sum of money,

00:06:28.380 but a whole empire by false pretenses.

00:06:34.740 Instead of being hanged, Leopold was reinvented

00:06:38.920 as a great humanitarian king, a great civilizer.

00:06:44.560 He was reinvented.

00:06:47.440 Yeah, so that's the lie, right?

00:06:49.020 Not that they lied and intentionally exaggerated this, right?

00:06:53.960 As we'll get into now here.

00:06:56.480 But anyways, this is the framing.

00:06:58.280 And look, maybe this documentary doesn't only use Adam Hochschild's research, right?

00:07:05.560 There's probably others out there.

00:07:07.880 But this is, of course, common with anti-whites, culture Marxists, anti-Westerners,

00:07:13.620 and these kinds of things.

00:07:14.300 They always have to deconstruct and say,

00:07:15.940 this is somehow uniquely evil what they did.

00:07:18.880 They leave out things.

00:07:20.200 They cut things out, as we'll see.

00:07:22.120 And they basically just lie.

00:07:23.540 But hang on to your pantaloons, ladies, 1.00

00:07:27.360 because now we're going to get the film version soon.

00:07:30.720 And as the article talks about here in a little bit,

00:07:33.620 once that happens, all chances are out the window

00:07:37.540 to try to restore or set the record straight

00:07:41.500 about these kinds of things, right?

00:07:42.700 Ben Affleck to direct King Leopold's Ghost

00:07:46.980 about unlikely trio who exposed atrocities in plunder of the Congo.

00:07:53.180 Now, this has been worked on for a few years.

00:07:58.400 There's some straining,

00:07:59.900 the strained relationship with the production, stuff like that.

00:08:02.680 Hopefully it never comes out.

00:08:04.560 But just be aware of this, that that's where this is going.

00:08:07.380 That's why this is also a very important discussion

00:08:10.480 to have to kind of get ahead of the curve

00:08:11.880 and get the arguments straightened out now

00:08:14.680 so when shit's released, you know. 0.60

00:08:17.140 Look, it's not that this is a unique thing with King Leopold

00:08:21.480 that I uniquely feel I have to defend him or whatever.

00:08:25.000 Whether there's some bad things, sure.

00:08:26.980 Of course, there's always that.

00:08:28.960 But this absurd cartoonish version

00:08:32.160 that we get through history that is like,

00:08:34.300 well, because he was a white European colonialist, you see,

00:08:38.420 he intentionally had to chop off the hands and feet

00:08:41.400 of as many Africans as possible.

00:08:43.520 Oh, yeah?

00:08:44.120 Is that really what happened?

00:08:45.760 Let's take a look at the breakdown of this here.

00:08:48.300 So here it is.

00:08:49.400 King Hockshild's hoax.

00:08:52.080 And of course, just a little caveat ahead of time here.

00:08:56.240 Here's Adam Hockshild.

00:08:59.580 Maybe that's a better term.

00:09:00.440 There's a fascinating portion here on Wikipedia

00:09:04.020 called the early life section

00:09:07.480 where you can find out a number of things about.

00:09:11.340 And imagine my shock when we look at Adam Hockshild

00:09:15.380 that the very same kind of same consistency here

00:09:19.500 seems to be running through yet another one

00:09:23.520 of these critics and academics and historians.

00:09:27.220 So anyway, an absurdly depicted book

00:09:30.500 on Congolese rubber production

00:09:32.220 is better described as historical fiction.

00:09:36.940 All right, so it's a little longer piece here,

00:09:38.840 but I think it's worth it.

00:09:40.340 For the past 25 years, the idea of the Congo

00:09:42.980 has been closely linked in the Western imagination

00:09:45.320 to the 1998 book King Leopold's Ghost

00:09:48.500 by the American Jewish journalist Adam Hockshild.

00:09:51.960 The book is widely assigned in high schools and colleges,

00:09:55.480 and it regularly tops bestseller lists

00:09:58.280 in colonial African and Western history.

00:10:01.940 Hockshild has become a sort of king of the Congo,

00:10:05.300 or at least of its history.

00:10:07.140 The book is reflectively cited by reputable scholars

00:10:12.080 in their footnotes anytime they wish to assert

00:10:14.900 that it's well known and beyond a shadow of a doubt

00:10:18.240 that sinister men in Europe

00:10:20.460 wrought havoc in Africa over a century ago. 1.00

00:10:23.320 Any discussion of the Congo or of European colonialism

00:10:27.200 more generally invariably begins with the question,

00:10:30.940 have you read King Leopold's Ghost?

00:10:34.100 I have read it, and I can declare

00:10:38.080 that it's a vast hoax full of distortions and errors,

00:10:42.620 both numerous and grave,

00:10:44.600 a few of which I will detail in this short essay.

00:10:47.300 Some people might view King Hockshild's hoax,

00:10:50.700 as we might call it,

00:10:51.680 as an empowering fable for modern Africans

00:10:54.120 at the expense of the white man.

00:10:56.680 I don't think he does this.

00:10:58.540 It's the easy way out.

00:11:01.340 The real victims here are, of course, white Europeans, 1.00

00:11:04.280 because we're the ones who are being told,

00:11:05.780 we bad, right?

00:11:06.720 We come from this.

00:11:07.780 The only reason your country is successful

00:11:09.340 is the riches of the backs of slaves in Africa.

00:11:11.120 They took everything, you know, that kind of shit, right?

00:11:13.440 We are the intended target

00:11:18.180 for these lies and this propaganda, okay?

00:11:21.340 So you don't have to do this.

00:11:23.280 Are there negative consequences

00:11:24.620 for black African Congolese people too?

00:11:26.940 Sure, okay?

00:11:27.980 Feel free to mention them,

00:11:29.580 but don't try to delude yourself

00:11:30.760 by thinking that it's anything else

00:11:32.300 but an attack on white people,

00:11:34.660 white civilization, etc.

00:11:36.560 You get the point, right?

00:11:37.680 Anyway, that's where this author is going, so be it.

00:11:40.160 But it's debilitating effects on Africa 0.95

00:11:42.480 and on the Congo in particular

00:11:44.320 make the opposite more nearly the case.

00:11:47.440 It is a callous and negligent chito, 0.99

00:11:50.980 chiotti or whatever that's called,

00:11:52.920 a hippo whip,

00:11:53.820 lash on the backs of all black Africans, 0.99

00:11:56.820 narcissistically guilt porn for white liberals

00:12:00.760 at the expense of the African. 0.92

00:12:03.520 Again, I disagree a little bit.

00:12:04.900 Is there a self, what's the term,

00:12:07.380 flagellation or what is the term

00:12:08.940 by white liberals about this?

00:12:10.780 Of course, yes, I'm not denying that,

00:12:13.560 but we know why this is being spun in this way, right?

00:12:18.020 The Congolese lawyer Marcel Yabili

00:12:19.920 calls it the greatest falsification in modern history.

00:12:24.140 A compliment of sorts, I suppose.

00:12:27.500 Hochschild's book is a history

00:12:29.300 of the private domain

00:12:30.920 of the Belgian King Leopold II

00:12:33.360 and the Congo River Basin

00:12:34.580 that was founded in 1885

00:12:35.940 and then handed over to the Belgian government

00:12:37.720 in 1908.

00:12:40.260 The book alternates between

00:12:42.260 diabolical accounts of Leopold

00:12:45.320 and hagiographic accounts.

00:12:47.200 I think that's from their perspective

00:12:48.960 or something, right?

00:12:50.400 Hagiographic accounts

00:12:51.360 of three of his critics.

00:12:53.440 One being the British campaigner,

00:12:54.980 E.D. Morrell,

00:12:56.560 the British diplomat,

00:12:57.800 Roger Casimant,

00:12:58.940 and the black American missionary

00:13:00.760 William Henry Shepard.

00:13:02.280 Now, of course,

00:13:02.700 it was also a,

00:13:03.480 as it was,

00:13:04.620 competition over

00:13:06.160 who gets to set up what colony.

00:13:08.380 They were infighting.

00:13:09.240 Of course,

00:13:10.000 one side in Europe

00:13:10.860 would want to demonize the other side 0.95

00:13:12.160 and make them look bad.

00:13:13.100 So they will be the,

00:13:14.220 you know,

00:13:14.820 we'll take it,

00:13:15.880 we'll run it right.

00:13:17.680 You know,

00:13:17.820 kind of like China is doing now 0.93

00:13:18.840 in Africa, right?

00:13:19.560 The narrative style

00:13:21.160 is dark and conspiratorial

00:13:23.820 from the initial plans

00:13:25.360 for the domain

00:13:26.400 to its final dissolution.

00:13:28.160 All along,

00:13:28.680 Hochschild's aim

00:13:29.680 is to elevate the story

00:13:30.760 into one of the greatest evils

00:13:32.600 ever perpetrated

00:13:33.860 by the West

00:13:35.180 upon the rest.

00:13:36.800 There have been

00:13:37.180 two documentary films

00:13:38.160 about Hochschild's fable,

00:13:40.260 both travesties of art

00:13:41.600 as well as fact,

00:13:42.920 but the worst is yet to come.

00:13:45.100 A dramatized Hollywood version

00:13:46.640 by the American director

00:13:47.620 Ben Affleck

00:13:48.860 and Martin Scorsese

00:13:50.580 co-produced with the singer

00:13:52.520 and activist

00:13:53.200 Harry Belafonte.

00:13:55.100 Is he,

00:13:55.340 didn't he,

00:13:55.820 didn't he die recently?

00:13:57.820 I saw something about his,

00:13:58.640 oh,

00:13:58.860 his tireless civil rights work.

00:14:01.940 I saw some headline

00:14:02.560 about this guy before,

00:14:03.580 so big surprise.

00:14:04.820 Of course,

00:14:05.060 he's going to write

00:14:05.980 and be part of some

00:14:06.660 anti-white shit movie.

00:14:08.640 But anyway,

00:14:09.140 that movie has been

00:14:09.820 in development since 2019.

00:14:12.620 The history of the Congo

00:14:13.500 might have survived

00:14:14.740 one gut punch

00:14:15.860 from California.

00:14:17.120 Hochschild did his research

00:14:18.240 entirely at libraries

00:14:19.200 in the state

00:14:19.720 and teachers at Berkeley.

00:14:22.520 Of course he does.

00:14:23.620 But once Hollywood

00:14:24.520 weighs in on the matter,

00:14:25.780 history as such

00:14:26.720 will be impossible.

00:14:28.120 I think he's right about that.

00:14:29.480 But before that happens,

00:14:30.580 let's set the record straight

00:14:31.860 and end this malicious form

00:14:34.020 of imperial plunder.

00:14:35.960 The first and biggest deceit

00:14:37.240 at the heart of King Leopold's ghost

00:14:38.700 is the attempt to equate

00:14:40.040 Leopold's

00:14:40.880 Atetat Independent

00:14:42.300 du Congo 1.00

00:14:43.640 or the EIC for short

00:14:45.680 and that's long

00:14:46.600 been mistranslated

00:14:47.620 as the Congo Free State

00:14:49.700 but that's what it's become

00:14:50.600 known as, right?

00:14:52.060 With Western colonialism.

00:14:54.520 Yet the EIC

00:14:55.160 was a short-term solution

00:14:56.580 to the absence

00:14:57.820 of colonial government

00:14:59.200 in the Congo River Basin.

00:15:00.760 The deal was simple.

00:15:02.040 Leopold was to open

00:15:02.960 the area to trade

00:15:03.860 and eliminate

00:15:04.600 endemic Arabic 0.99

00:15:05.700 slave empires

00:15:07.020 and African tribal wars.

00:15:09.620 In return,

00:15:10.160 he hoped to bring glory

00:15:11.940 to the Belgian people

00:15:12.980 for having done

00:15:13.760 what no other

00:15:15.060 European ruler dared.

00:15:16.940 One in three Europeans 0.97

00:15:18.020 who traveled to the Congo

00:15:19.020 died,

00:15:20.000 usually of illness.

00:15:21.420 Say what white supremacists

00:15:22.600 we were.

00:15:23.300 The EIC had nothing to do

00:15:24.980 with the Belgian government.

00:15:26.580 To the extent

00:15:27.140 that limited abuses

00:15:28.180 and misrule occurred

00:15:29.200 in some parts

00:15:30.100 of his domain

00:15:30.880 discussed below,

00:15:32.160 this was a direct result

00:15:33.380 of its not being controlled

00:15:35.100 by a European state

00:15:36.180 and no less

00:15:37.380 than Morel insisted.

00:15:39.300 Not quoted by Hawth

00:15:40.140 Child.

00:15:40.660 Let us refrain

00:15:41.620 from referring

00:15:42.260 to the Congo

00:15:42.940 as a Belgian colony.

00:15:44.660 Let us avoid

00:15:45.400 writing of Belgian misrule.

00:15:48.880 In a pattern

00:15:49.620 of misrepresentation

00:15:50.940 that,

00:15:51.240 and this is also like

00:15:52.240 the EU is built

00:15:54.000 on the backs

00:15:54.720 of the,

00:15:55.100 like there's a reason

00:15:56.140 why it's in Belgium,

00:15:58.000 the seat

00:15:58.920 of the European

00:16:00.000 Parliament.

00:16:01.740 Yes,

00:16:01.960 there's some in

00:16:02.400 Strasbourg as well,

00:16:03.680 things like this,

00:16:04.100 but like it's Belgian

00:16:05.660 that's hosting

00:16:06.440 essentially the EU,

00:16:07.200 right?

00:16:08.420 It's a very

00:16:09.240 divided nation

00:16:10.420 between the Flemish North

00:16:11.420 and the rest.

00:16:13.080 There's different languages

00:16:14.300 spoken in the country.

00:16:15.960 It's already perfectly

00:16:17.240 divided in a sense

00:16:18.360 to use it.

00:16:19.640 And the EU

00:16:21.820 does things

00:16:24.080 and takes

00:16:24.820 stances

00:16:25.520 that it does

00:16:27.080 because of

00:16:28.240 the false histories

00:16:30.120 like this.

00:16:31.260 And that's why

00:16:32.040 it's important.

00:16:32.540 In a pattern

00:16:34.640 of misrepresentation

00:16:35.780 that is repeated

00:16:36.520 on other issues,

00:16:37.920 Hoke Charles

00:16:38.560 as first mentions

00:16:39.680 this inconvenient fact

00:16:41.620 and then proceeds

00:16:42.440 by saying the opposite

00:16:43.660 for the entirety

00:16:44.520 of the book.

00:16:45.540 The fiefdom

00:16:46.240 was shared

00:16:47.000 in no way

00:16:47.800 with the Belgian government,

00:16:49.020 so he declares

00:16:49.560 that first,

00:16:50.660 which had no legal

00:16:51.960 authority over Leopold

00:16:53.340 as a ruler

00:16:53.960 of the Congo.

00:16:55.120 He alerts readers,

00:16:56.320 yet not only

00:16:57.900 the subtle,

00:17:00.120 the subtitle,

00:17:01.080 sorry,

00:17:01.200 the subtitle

00:17:01.980 of the book,

00:17:02.760 but laced throughout

00:17:04.000 are constant

00:17:04.960 smears against

00:17:05.980 European colonialism.

00:17:07.500 Imagine my shock, folks.

00:17:09.340 The book shows

00:17:09.980 colonial brutality

00:17:11.380 and the wrongs

00:17:12.640 of colonial rule.

00:17:14.200 Okay, well,

00:17:14.560 now do Israel 0.88

00:17:15.300 hoax child,

00:17:18.120 resulting from

00:17:18.700 the logical consequences

00:17:20.020 of the very idea

00:17:21.280 of colonialism.

00:17:23.060 This distortion

00:17:24.280 is not mere

00:17:25.720 technicality,

00:17:26.700 rather,

00:17:27.060 it is the central lie

00:17:28.640 of King Leopold's ghost,

00:17:29.980 the freelance

00:17:30.640 EIC,

00:17:31.700 had at its peak

00:17:32.640 just 1,500

00:17:34.220 administrative officers

00:17:35.280 and about 19,000

00:17:36.880 police and soldiers

00:17:37.760 for an area

00:17:38.420 one-third of the size

00:17:40.060 of the continental

00:17:41.960 United States.

00:17:43.920 As such,

00:17:45.080 it exerted

00:17:45.740 virtually no control

00:17:47.220 over most areas,

00:17:48.480 which were

00:17:48.980 in the hands

00:17:49.580 either of

00:17:50.120 Arab slave traders

00:17:51.760 and African warlords

00:17:54.180 or of native soldiers

00:17:55.920 nominally in the

00:17:57.280 employ of Belgian

00:17:58.220 concession companies

00:17:59.960 without a white man 0.89

00:18:01.360 for 100 miles.

00:18:03.140 So here we go again.

00:18:05.080 Shit that Arabs do, 1.00

00:18:07.140 African warlords,

00:18:08.520 slave traders,

00:18:09.620 blah, blah, blah,

00:18:10.400 gets blamed

00:18:11.400 on white people.

00:18:12.340 Of course,

00:18:12.700 we gotta take in

00:18:13.640 the Jews' role

00:18:15.600 in the African slave trade,

00:18:16.820 these kinds of things,

00:18:17.560 right?

00:18:18.420 Hochschild's depiction

00:18:19.280 of the EIC

00:18:20.400 as totalitarian

00:18:21.400 is bizarre,

00:18:22.780 as is his claim

00:18:24.380 that Leopold

00:18:25.060 exerted a

00:18:25.800 quote,

00:18:26.120 framework of control

00:18:27.320 across his

00:18:28.300 enormous realm.

00:18:29.740 If only

00:18:30.720 that were true.

00:18:32.960 That is why

00:18:33.640 Congo reformers

00:18:34.760 like Morel,

00:18:35.740 much to the annoyance

00:18:36.740 of Hochschild,

00:18:37.500 advocated either

00:18:38.320 German or British

00:18:39.340 colonialization

00:18:40.520 of the area.

00:18:41.540 You're not doing

00:18:42.340 it right, guys.

00:18:44.300 Okay?

00:18:45.600 And it's a classic

00:18:47.180 example of like,

00:18:48.720 you know,

00:18:51.260 what is the saying?

00:18:54.800 No good deed

00:18:55.960 goes unpunished.

00:18:57.160 That's this, right?

00:18:58.500 Oh, we'll bring

00:18:59.420 civilization to this,

00:19:00.740 but we'll teach them

00:19:01.540 all the wonderful things

00:19:02.720 that we have done

00:19:03.760 and let's build

00:19:05.120 this government

00:19:06.440 and governmental

00:19:07.420 buildings and stuff.

00:19:08.480 I mean,

00:19:08.660 even in the Congo,

00:19:09.960 there's like some

00:19:10.300 incredible buildings

00:19:11.560 still to this day

00:19:12.880 standing.

00:19:14.520 Although dilapidated,

00:19:16.120 there is

00:19:16.900 an echo

00:19:18.680 of a glorious past

00:19:19.960 there of European 0.53

00:19:21.040 activity,

00:19:21.620 but that's long gone.

00:19:27.020 Morel's view,

00:19:28.100 according to Hochschild,

00:19:29.680 speaking ex cathedra,

00:19:31.580 which is from

00:19:32.220 authority,

00:19:32.880 essentially,

00:19:33.680 from the hallowed

00:19:34.660 seat of modern

00:19:35.580 California,

00:19:36.440 seems unsurprising

00:19:37.620 to us today

00:19:38.320 and was among

00:19:39.060 his faults

00:19:39.880 and political

00:19:40.660 limitations.

00:19:41.720 Quite the opposite.

00:19:42.800 The moment

00:19:43.380 the Belgians

00:19:44.180 colonized the Congo

00:19:45.140 in 1908,

00:19:46.320 a miraculous

00:19:47.220 improvement

00:19:47.940 was noted

00:19:49.200 on all fronts.

00:19:50.820 Seeking to debunk

00:19:51.680 colonialism,

00:19:52.820 Hochschild's book

00:19:53.700 demonstrates

00:19:54.360 the opposite.

00:19:55.840 This is the first

00:19:56.460 and biggest lie

00:19:57.380 at the heart

00:19:58.080 of King Leopold's ghost.

00:19:59.360 The second,

00:20:00.040 more visibly,

00:20:01.240 untruth

00:20:01.760 is the claim

00:20:02.620 that for 23 years

00:20:04.340 the EIC

00:20:04.900 officially

00:20:05.480 throughout the territory

00:20:06.660 sponsored violent

00:20:07.820 actions such as

00:20:08.960 chopping off hands

00:20:09.900 to force natives 1.00

00:20:12.460 to collect rubber,

00:20:13.700 leaving millions

00:20:14.600 dead in a horror

00:20:15.720 that should be

00:20:16.500 directly compared

00:20:17.920 to the Holocaust. 0.64

00:20:20.160 There are about

00:20:20.840 a dozen little

00:20:21.940 cheats here,

00:20:23.000 one embedded

00:20:23.760 in others

00:20:24.700 like Russian 0.99

00:20:25.900 nesting dolls.

00:20:28.100 So here's the facts.

00:20:29.300 By 1891,

00:20:31.500 six years into

00:20:32.320 the attempt

00:20:33.100 to build the EIC,

00:20:34.400 the whole project

00:20:35.020 was on the verge

00:20:35.640 of bankruptcy.

00:20:37.220 It would have been

00:20:37.700 easy for Leopold

00:20:38.620 to raise revenues

00:20:39.560 by sanctioning

00:20:40.340 imports of liquor

00:20:41.380 that could be taxed

00:20:42.500 or by levying fees

00:20:43.420 on the number

00:20:43.860 of huts

00:20:44.320 in each village,

00:20:45.480 both of which

00:20:46.100 would have caused

00:20:46.640 harm to the

00:20:47.400 native population.

00:20:48.620 A truly greedy king,

00:20:50.160 as Hochschild

00:20:50.640 repeatedly calls him,

00:20:51.920 had many fiscal

00:20:52.840 options that Leopold

00:20:54.420 did not exercise.

00:20:56.880 Instead,

00:20:57.400 he did what

00:20:58.480 most other

00:20:59.160 colonial governments

00:20:59.980 and many

00:21:00.420 post-colonial ones

00:21:01.480 in Africa did.

00:21:02.520 He imposed

00:21:02.960 a labor requirement

00:21:04.300 in lieu of taxes.

00:21:06.240 In a small part

00:21:07.040 of the Upper Congo

00:21:07.720 River area,

00:21:08.420 he declared an EIC

00:21:09.460 monopoly over

00:21:10.400 natural resort products,

00:21:12.340 including rubber

00:21:13.060 and ivory,

00:21:13.840 that could be harvested

00:21:14.720 as part of the

00:21:15.340 labor requirements

00:21:16.100 to pay for

00:21:16.740 the territory's

00:21:17.440 government.

00:21:18.300 From 1896

00:21:19.220 to 1904,

00:21:20.260 the EIC company

00:21:21.280 and two private

00:21:22.180 companies operated

00:21:23.020 in this area,

00:21:24.000 which covered

00:21:24.400 about 15%

00:21:25.140 of the territory

00:21:25.840 and held

00:21:26.280 about a fifth

00:21:27.580 of the population.

00:21:28.740 The resulting

00:21:29.360 rubber remedies

00:21:30.060 temporarily saved

00:21:31.320 the EIC,

00:21:32.080 but only until

00:21:33.100 rubber prices

00:21:33.800 collapsed.

00:21:34.860 Still,

00:21:35.420 the preservation

00:21:36.100 of the EIC

00:21:36.880 meant the preservation

00:21:37.840 of its life-saving

00:21:38.760 interventions

00:21:39.340 against disease,

00:21:40.800 tribal war,

00:21:41.540 slavery,

00:21:42.240 and grinding 0.60

00:21:42.640 poverty that

00:21:43.660 had bewilded

00:21:45.540 the region

00:21:46.060 since recorded

00:21:47.020 time.

00:21:47.780 So again,

00:21:48.540 here we are

00:21:49.000 trying to,

00:21:49.720 or they are

00:21:50.860 trying to help,

00:21:52.140 trying to fix this.

00:21:52.900 No,

00:21:53.280 just don't even bother.

00:21:55.340 You know what I mean?

00:21:57.040 Why?

00:21:58.200 The rubber quotas

00:21:59.000 imposed on natives 0.52

00:21:59.980 in this 15%

00:22:01.080 of the territory

00:22:01.920 were enforced

00:22:02.920 by native soldiers

00:22:03.960 working for the

00:22:04.880 companies or for

00:22:05.840 the EIC itself.

00:22:06.960 In many areas,

00:22:07.840 the rubber came

00:22:08.460 with ease

00:22:08.980 and the natives

00:22:09.560 prospered.

00:22:10.540 The rubber

00:22:10.780 stationed at

00:22:11.520 Erengi,

00:22:12.060 for example,

00:22:12.800 was known for

00:22:13.580 its bulging

00:22:14.560 stores and

00:22:15.220 hospital locals,

00:22:16.580 whose women 0.93

00:22:17.200 spent a lot of

00:22:17.880 time making

00:22:18.300 bracelets and

00:22:19.160 were,

00:22:19.920 quote,

00:22:20.040 where no one

00:22:22.760 ever misses

00:22:23.300 a meal,

00:22:24.200 unquote,

00:22:24.640 noted the

00:22:25.020 IAC soldier

00:22:25.780 George

00:22:26.260 Bracuse

00:22:27.240 in his

00:22:27.580 memoirs.

00:22:28.440 Elsewhere,

00:22:28.860 however,

00:22:29.260 absent direct

00:22:30.100 supervision

00:22:30.720 and with

00:22:31.500 the difficulties

00:22:32.380 of meeting

00:22:33.360 quotas

00:22:33.820 greater,

00:22:34.900 some native

00:22:35.500 soldiers engaged

00:22:36.580 in abusive

00:22:37.280 behavior to

00:22:38.180 force the

00:22:38.940 collection.

00:22:40.300 Bracuse

00:22:40.620 noted that

00:22:41.400 these areas

00:22:41.960 as well,

00:22:43.120 especially where

00:22:44.700 locals had

00:22:45.260 sabotaged

00:22:45.880 rubber stations

00:22:46.500 and then fled

00:22:47.180 to the French

00:22:47.760 Congo,

00:22:48.480 to the north,

00:22:49.320 in rare cases,

00:22:50.200 native soldiers

00:22:50.700 did kidnap

00:22:51.320 women or 0.69

00:22:51.780 killed men

00:22:52.280 to extend

00:22:53.360 revenge.

00:22:54.440 When they

00:22:54.740 fell into

00:22:55.520 skirmishes,

00:22:56.160 they sometimes

00:22:56.840 followed

00:22:57.240 long-standing

00:22:58.320 Arab and

00:22:59.320 African

00:22:59.800 traditions by

00:23:00.940 cutting off

00:23:01.660 the hands

00:23:02.160 or feet

00:23:02.860 of the

00:23:03.320 fallen as

00:23:04.100 trophies,

00:23:05.060 or to show

00:23:05.780 that they

00:23:06.320 had bullets

00:23:06.960 they had

00:23:07.380 fired that

00:23:08.680 had been

00:23:08.980 used in

00:23:09.360 battle.

00:23:09.760 Many

00:23:10.000 locals died

00:23:11.040 in these

00:23:11.560 frays.

00:23:12.800 How many

00:23:13.640 locals died

00:23:16.720 in these

00:23:17.080 frays is

00:23:17.500 unclear,

00:23:18.220 but the

00:23:18.560 confirmed

00:23:18.960 cases might

00:23:19.920 put the

00:23:20.300 figure at

00:23:20.740 about 10,000.

00:23:22.280 A terrible

00:23:22.680 number.

00:23:24.020 The abusers

00:23:24.520 were first

00:23:25.140 reported by

00:23:25.780 an American

00:23:26.160 missionary in

00:23:26.900 the Times

00:23:27.480 of London

00:23:28.480 in 1895

00:23:29.540 and quickly

00:23:30.680 brought

00:23:31.100 Leopold's

00:23:31.760 censure.

00:23:32.560 If there

00:23:33.280 are these

00:23:34.600 abuses in

00:23:35.500 the Congo,

00:23:36.080 we must

00:23:36.540 stop them,

00:23:37.800 he warned

00:23:38.220 the EIC

00:23:38.760 officials in

00:23:39.740 1896.

00:23:41.180 If they

00:23:41.460 continued,

00:23:42.100 it will be

00:23:42.420 the end

00:23:42.900 of the

00:23:43.240 state.

00:23:43.920 For the

00:23:44.140 next 10

00:23:44.540 years,

00:23:44.980 reforming the

00:23:45.860 Congo's 0.96

00:23:46.340 rubber

00:23:46.660 industry

00:23:47.060 absorbed an

00:23:47.780 inordinate

00:23:48.280 amount of

00:23:48.720 attention in

00:23:49.640 the British

00:23:50.080 and American

00:23:50.540 press and

00:23:51.400 legislators,

00:23:52.260 not to

00:23:52.740 mention within

00:23:53.340 Belgium and

00:23:54.000 the EIC

00:23:54.460 itself,

00:23:55.280 leading to a

00:23:56.000 formal Belgian

00:23:56.780 colonization in

00:23:57.800 1908.

00:23:59.520 Hochschild thus

00:24:00.580 takes a very

00:24:01.200 limited,

00:24:02.020 unintentionally

00:24:02.700 unforeseen and

00:24:03.440 perhaps unavoidable

00:24:04.480 problem of

00:24:05.460 native-on-native

00:24:06.540 conflict over

00:24:07.500 rubber harvesting

00:24:08.320 and blows it 0.88

00:24:09.420 up into a

00:24:10.040 forgotten

00:24:11.080 holocaust,

00:24:12.460 to quote the

00:24:13.160 subtitle given

00:24:13.980 to the French

00:24:14.640 edition of

00:24:15.440 this book.

00:24:16.400 Inside this

00:24:16.840 great invention

00:24:18.900 are many

00:24:20.300 more

00:24:20.740 perdifidous

00:24:22.180 Russian

00:24:22.760 dolls.

00:24:24.220 First,

00:24:24.780 in what might

00:24:25.460 charitably be

00:24:26.340 seen or

00:24:27.120 described as a

00:24:27.980 puzzling instance

00:24:28.720 of creative

00:24:29.340 editing,

00:24:30.400 Hochschild takes

00:24:31.220 the testimony

00:24:32.000 of an EIC

00:24:32.920 officer against

00:24:34.240 rubber harvesting

00:24:35.060 and turns it

00:24:36.040 into a call

00:24:37.040 for rubber

00:24:38.340 atrocities.

00:24:39.900 This little

00:24:40.340 dodge forms a

00:24:41.940 cornerstone of

00:24:42.880 his argument

00:24:43.440 that chopped

00:24:44.580 hands for

00:24:45.120 rubber was a

00:24:45.860 deliberate policy

00:24:47.020 and officially

00:24:48.000 sanctioned.

00:24:49.160 The speaker is

00:24:51.320 Charles LaMere

00:24:52.740 who was first

00:24:53.860 commissioned of

00:24:54.540 the EIC

00:24:55.820 or is this a

00:24:58.040 different one?

00:24:58.500 Yeah, the

00:24:58.900 Ecuador district

00:25:00.020 and whose

00:25:04.840 memoirs are

00:25:05.560 held at the

00:25:06.200 University of

00:25:06.840 Ghent.

00:25:07.700 Now, the

00:25:07.960 original quotation

00:25:08.940 reads, he

00:25:09.540 reads it in

00:25:10.020 French here,

00:25:11.840 is as follows,

00:25:12.640 this is his

00:25:13.040 translation,

00:25:14.020 As soon as

00:25:14.800 the rubber

00:25:15.220 question was

00:25:15.960 raised, I

00:25:16.780 stood firmly

00:25:17.440 in opposition

00:25:18.420 and wrote to

00:25:19.600 the government,

00:25:20.820 We will have

00:25:21.440 to be cutting

00:25:23.200 off hands and

00:25:23.980 noses and

00:25:24.760 ears if we

00:25:25.780 intend to

00:25:26.460 collect rubber

00:25:27.040 in the

00:25:28.220 Ecuador district

00:25:29.280 where no

00:25:29.860 preparations had

00:25:30.840 been made,

00:25:31.560 and I don't

00:25:32.240 think we drove

00:25:32.940 away the Arab 1.00

00:25:33.720 bandits in order

00:25:34.700 to take their

00:25:35.480 place.

00:25:35.940 Even as the

00:25:38.080 anti-Leopold

00:25:39.020 historian Daniel

00:25:40.120 Vangroveg

00:25:42.480 noted,

00:25:43.200 Lemar,

00:25:44.320 like most

00:25:46.680 EIC officials,

00:25:47.580 was unwilling

00:25:48.320 and unable

00:25:49.160 to pursue a

00:25:50.140 systemic rubber

00:25:50.920 harvest.

00:25:51.980 He did not

00:25:52.740 have the time

00:25:53.360 and he

00:25:53.800 understood that

00:25:54.560 he would not

00:25:55.360 work without

00:25:56.380 the use of

00:25:57.040 force.

00:25:57.880 Hochschild,

00:25:58.680 however,

00:25:59.480 creatively edits

00:26:00.640 the quotation

00:26:01.440 to say the

00:26:02.840 opposite.

00:26:03.760 Imagine my

00:26:04.220 shock.

00:26:04.480 This is what

00:26:04.760 Hochschild says

00:26:05.400 about this.

00:26:05.780 As soon as it

00:26:09.580 was a question

00:26:10.440 of rubber,

00:26:11.360 I wrote to

00:26:12.100 the government,

00:26:13.540 to gather

00:26:13.960 rubber in the

00:26:14.660 district,

00:26:15.760 edit,

00:26:16.080 edit,

00:26:16.300 edit,

00:26:16.580 dot,

00:26:16.800 dot,

00:26:16.920 dot,

00:26:17.400 one must

00:26:18.420 cut off

00:26:19.000 hands,

00:26:19.680 noses,

00:26:20.300 and ears.

00:26:22.200 Why did I

00:26:23.020 always do

00:26:23.280 this?

00:26:24.060 Scum.

00:26:25.480 Liar! 0.96

00:26:26.040 This is such

00:26:27.920 a reckless

00:26:28.960 act of

00:26:29.920 dishonesty

00:26:30.720 that one

00:26:31.920 can only

00:26:32.600 marvel.

00:26:35.120 Let's

00:26:35.760 proceed to

00:26:36.220 the next

00:26:36.620 cheat.

00:26:37.280 Most

00:26:37.540 memorably

00:26:38.060 for readers,

00:26:38.900 Hochschild's

00:26:39.440 reprints

00:26:39.900 staged

00:26:40.520 photographs

00:26:41.720 taken by

00:26:42.560 English

00:26:43.060 missionary

00:26:43.460 Alice

00:26:43.920 Seeley

00:26:44.400 Harris

00:26:44.820 and supplied

00:26:45.880 to the

00:26:46.680 anti-Leopold

00:26:47.340 campaign

00:26:47.880 through the

00:26:48.340 English

00:26:48.600 missionary

00:26:48.940 John

00:26:49.280 Weeks.

00:26:50.120 The

00:26:50.200 missionaries

00:26:50.600 knew that

00:26:51.240 showing these

00:26:51.760 fake photos

00:26:52.560 at lantern

00:26:53.420 shows in

00:26:54.600 community halls

00:26:55.240 in Britain

00:26:55.800 won more

00:26:56.740 attention and

00:26:57.380 donations than

00:26:58.400 their detailed

00:26:59.040 accounts of

00:26:59.720 cannibalism and

00:27:01.140 sleeping sickness

00:27:02.240 ravaging their

00:27:03.240 areas.

00:27:04.160 Sleeping sickness.

00:27:04.940 I don't even

00:27:05.160 know what that

00:27:05.460 is.

00:27:05.960 Some African 1.00

00:27:06.340 thing.

00:27:06.800 Hochschild does

00:27:07.560 not tell the

00:27:08.580 reader that

00:27:09.280 the photographs

00:27:09.800 are staged,

00:27:11.140 nor does he

00:27:11.540 explain that

00:27:16.040 the photographs

00:27:16.680 of people with

00:27:17.520 severed hands

00:27:18.200 were victims

00:27:19.080 of gangrene,

00:27:21.220 tribal vendettas,

00:27:22.200 or cannibalism

00:27:23.000 having nothing

00:27:23.920 to do with

00:27:25.240 rubber.

00:27:26.540 In the most

00:27:27.280 famous photo

00:27:28.000 of them all,

00:27:28.720 a man whom

00:27:29.380 Seeley got to

00:27:30.200 sit on the

00:27:30.960 veranda of

00:27:31.680 her mission

00:27:32.240 station with

00:27:33.380 a severed

00:27:33.920 hand and

00:27:34.440 foot before

00:27:35.680 him.

00:27:36.100 The original

00:27:36.720 caption given

00:27:37.900 my morale

00:27:38.460 reads,

00:27:39.000 Sala of 0.66

00:27:39.600 Walla and

00:27:40.620 remains of

00:27:43.260 his five-year-old

00:27:44.120 daughter,

00:27:44.540 both wife and

00:27:45.200 child,

00:27:45.460 were eaten by

00:27:46.180 king's soldiers

00:27:47.200 at a cannibal

00:27:48.240 feast.

00:27:49.180 Huh?

00:27:50.980 Until Hochschild,

00:27:52.400 no one had

00:27:52.960 suggested that the

00:27:53.780 girl or her

00:27:54.400 mother were

00:27:54.800 killed for

00:27:55.400 rubber,

00:27:56.040 only that the

00:27:56.620 EIC had

00:27:57.240 failed to

00:27:58.060 control the

00:27:59.140 eating habits

00:27:59.940 of its

00:28:00.320 citizens.

00:28:01.500 Hochschild,

00:28:01.980 however,

00:28:02.420 captions the

00:28:02.980 photo thus,

00:28:04.180 Nesala of

00:28:04.940 the district

00:28:05.520 of Walla,

00:28:06.560 looking at

00:28:07.120 the severed

00:28:07.660 hand and

00:28:08.120 foot of

00:28:08.540 his five-year-old

00:28:09.280 daughter,

00:28:09.880 Boalia,

00:28:10.460 a victim of

00:28:11.160 the Anglo-Belgian

00:28:12.720 Indian Rubber

00:28:13.660 Company,

00:28:14.740 Militia,

00:28:15.300 the A-B-I-R. 1.00

00:28:16.920 This is like

00:28:17.400 saying,

00:28:18.320 someone killed

00:28:19.000 by a person

00:28:19.740 who works for

00:28:20.480 Boeing is a

00:28:21.340 victim of the

00:28:22.080 Boeing Labor 0.89

00:28:22.720 Union.

00:28:23.540 It is

00:28:23.880 chicanery,

00:28:25.100 plain and

00:28:25.680 simple.

00:28:26.560 Third,

00:28:26.940 as a

00:28:27.200 self-proclaimed

00:28:27.780 human rights

00:28:28.320 activist,

00:28:29.080 of course,

00:28:29.880 Hochschild can

00:28:30.400 be forgiven

00:28:31.040 for his

00:28:31.480 economic

00:28:32.100 illiteracy.

00:28:33.540 But since

00:28:34.300 it's the

00:28:34.960 keystone

00:28:35.500 that begins

00:28:39.380 his tale,

00:28:40.120 it is another

00:28:41.060 fib worthy

00:28:42.060 of correcting.

00:28:43.180 The EIC's

00:28:43.940 large trade

00:28:44.880 surplus,

00:28:45.860 more physical

00:28:46.760 goods going

00:28:47.540 out than

00:28:48.020 coming in,

00:28:48.900 was because

00:28:49.440 virtually none

00:28:50.720 of the

00:28:51.160 revenue from

00:28:51.900 the goods

00:28:52.340 sold in

00:28:52.820 Europe was

00:28:53.340 sent back

00:28:54.060 to pay for

00:28:54.660 labor,

00:28:55.300 which was

00:28:55.700 paid for

00:28:56.320 as a

00:28:56.900 fulfillment

00:28:57.360 of the

00:28:57.700 EIC labor

00:28:58.420 obligations.

00:28:59.260 Instead,

00:29:00.180 the revenue

00:29:00.640 paid for

00:29:01.180 European

00:29:01.480 administration,

00:29:02.360 infrastructure,

00:29:03.000 and trade

00:29:03.360 services in

00:29:04.060 the Congo,

00:29:04.860 as well as

00:29:05.700 profits that

00:29:06.500 were parked

00:29:06.980 in Belgium,

00:29:08.060 an overall

00:29:08.800 payment deficit.

00:29:10.260 For Hochschild

00:29:10.960 to claim that

00:29:11.720 Africans were

00:29:12.300 getting a little

00:29:12.800 to nothing for

00:29:13.760 the goods they

00:29:14.260 produced because

00:29:14.940 fewer goods were

00:29:15.860 being sent to

00:29:16.620 Africa,

00:29:17.460 displays a

00:29:18.040 stunning economic

00:29:19.100 ignorance.

00:29:20.120 It is like

00:29:21.480 saying that

00:29:22.020 the empty

00:29:22.560 container ships

00:29:23.420 returning to

00:29:24.160 China from 0.76

00:29:25.460 today's port of

00:29:26.240 Long Beach show

00:29:27.340 that China's 0.96

00:29:28.160 workers are

00:29:28.820 being paid

00:29:29.400 little or

00:29:30.120 nothing.

00:29:31.520 Fascinating.

00:29:32.160 Fourth,

00:29:32.820 the big headline

00:29:33.560 of the book,

00:29:34.600 a whopper,

00:29:35.500 really,

00:29:35.940 is Hochschild's

00:29:36.720 claim that the

00:29:37.240 population of the

00:29:37.940 Congo fell by

00:29:38.660 50%, or 10

00:29:41.100 million on

00:29:42.020 Leopold's watch.

00:29:43.240 The EIC,

00:29:44.000 he claims,

00:29:44.500 caused depopulation

00:29:45.700 and a mass

00:29:46.760 murder of

00:29:47.500 genocidal

00:29:48.180 proportions due

00:29:49.420 to its drive

00:29:50.320 for rubber

00:29:50.860 profits.

00:29:52.020 In fact,

00:29:52.880 the most

00:29:53.340 knowledgeable

00:29:53.860 estimates today

00:29:55.040 suggest that the

00:29:56.020 general population

00:29:56.800 of the Congo

00:29:57.380 rose slightly

00:29:58.880 during the EIC

00:29:59.720 era and that

00:30:00.720 any deaths

00:30:01.300 attributable to

00:30:02.460 the limited

00:30:03.180 abuses in the

00:30:03.960 rubber areas

00:30:04.540 were far

00:30:05.460 outweighed by

00:30:06.160 the lives saved

00:30:07.180 and created by

00:30:08.040 the EIC's

00:30:08.700 direct interventions

00:30:09.940 in other

00:30:10.920 respects.

00:30:12.220 Even if we

00:30:12.880 can agree that

00:30:13.700 any life lost

00:30:15.060 to senseless

00:30:15.720 violence and

00:30:16.320 negligent

00:30:16.820 governance is

00:30:17.780 always and

00:30:18.320 everywhere

00:30:18.640 deserving of

00:30:19.520 condemnation.

00:30:20.660 Leopold's

00:30:21.140 regime was a

00:30:22.280 monumental

00:30:22.980 achievement in

00:30:24.320 saving and

00:30:24.960 promoting black 1.00

00:30:26.660 lives.

00:30:27.520 Maybe they

00:30:28.160 shouldn't have

00:30:28.500 got involved at

00:30:29.240 all.

00:30:30.460 Okay.

00:30:32.540 I hate King

00:30:33.420 Leopold now.

00:30:35.940 Here they are

00:30:39.420 actually helping

00:30:41.020 and they're

00:30:41.720 saving and

00:30:42.560 they're improving

00:30:43.260 and they're

00:30:43.780 doing all

00:30:44.380 these things.

00:30:45.000 They're bringing

00:30:45.280 infrastructure.

00:30:46.660 These people

00:30:47.000 are now working

00:30:47.900 and stuff.

00:30:48.420 They're driving

00:30:48.940 Arab slave 0.85

00:30:50.200 traders and

00:30:50.920 these brutal

00:30:51.500 old ways that

00:30:52.340 they had.

00:30:52.800 Right.

00:30:55.120 They're driving

00:30:55.980 them away,

00:30:57.480 improving things

00:30:58.380 and historically

00:30:59.860 they're being

00:31:00.420 blamed for

00:31:01.800 making things

00:31:02.420 worse.

00:31:02.640 It's incredible

00:31:03.760 the lies of

00:31:06.020 these people,

00:31:06.600 the audacity

00:31:08.480 of these

00:31:09.440 so-called

00:31:10.080 historians

00:31:10.820 to wheel

00:31:11.980 out this

00:31:12.380 garbage and

00:31:13.620 shit and

00:31:14.400 turn it on

00:31:14.900 its head.

00:31:15.660 And again,

00:31:16.020 as the author

00:31:16.660 said in the

00:31:17.000 beginning,

00:31:17.480 then that's

00:31:18.080 just a footnote.

00:31:19.380 Well, you

00:31:19.660 see, this is

00:31:20.060 what you get

00:31:21.580 with references

00:31:22.540 and, well,

00:31:23.180 it's highly

00:31:23.760 documented,

00:31:24.520 you see.

00:31:26.400 Just point to

00:31:27.100 the book and

00:31:27.480 that's all you

00:31:27.820 have to do.

00:31:28.880 Put a number

00:31:30.100 after your

00:31:30.700 little source,

00:31:32.420 point to the

00:31:33.160 book and say,

00:31:33.580 well, it's

00:31:33.920 been widely

00:31:34.660 documented now.

00:31:36.140 How could

00:31:38.780 Hochschild go

00:31:39.600 so wrong?

00:31:40.300 Yeah, this is

00:31:41.140 totally not

00:31:42.080 intentional,

00:31:42.600 right?

00:31:43.260 He's not at

00:31:44.240 all motivated

00:31:45.440 politically,

00:31:47.580 economically,

00:31:48.260 socially,

00:31:48.820 culturally,

00:31:49.360 ethnically,

00:31:49.880 right?

00:31:50.040 There's nothing

00:31:50.720 going on here.

00:31:52.780 He was highly

00:31:53.540 motivated from

00:31:54.140 the start to

00:31:54.640 find a genocide

00:31:55.880 because, as he

00:31:56.720 notes, his

00:31:57.540 project began by

00:31:58.640 reading the

00:31:59.140 American humorist

00:31:59.980 Mark Twain's

00:32:00.800 claim that

00:32:01.780 8 to 10

00:32:02.540 million people

00:32:03.120 had died in

00:32:03.720 the EIC,

00:32:04.480 but no

00:32:05.100 scholar has

00:32:05.700 ever made

00:32:06.540 such a

00:32:07.000 charge.

00:32:07.960 His source

00:32:08.580 was a chapter

00:32:09.420 by the

00:32:09.840 Belgian

00:32:10.160 ethnographer

00:32:11.000 John

00:32:11.960 Vansina,

00:32:14.920 citing his

00:32:15.480 own work

00:32:16.160 on population

00:32:16.860 declines in

00:32:17.640 the entirety

00:32:18.420 of Central

00:32:18.980 Africa

00:32:19.320 throughout

00:32:19.920 the 19th

00:32:21.000 century that

00:32:21.480 included only

00:32:22.860 what became

00:32:23.620 the northern

00:32:23.980 areas of

00:32:24.540 the EIC.

00:32:25.500 In any

00:32:25.840 case,

00:32:26.960 Vassira's

00:32:27.720 own source

00:32:28.420 was a

00:32:29.040 Harvard

00:32:29.380 study of

00:32:30.960 1928 that

00:32:32.720 quoted a

00:32:33.300 1919 Belgian

00:32:34.760 claim that

00:32:35.380 in some

00:32:36.020 areas population

00:32:37.320 had fallen

00:32:37.860 by half,

00:32:38.780 but quoted

00:32:39.200 it in

00:32:41.020 order to

00:32:41.800 assert that

00:32:42.360 it was

00:32:42.600 almost

00:32:43.300 certainly

00:32:44.120 false.

00:32:45.800 The first

00:32:46.680 proper sample-based

00:32:48.160 census was not

00:32:49.100 carried out

00:32:49.640 until 1949,

00:32:52.280 so demographers

00:32:52.780 have not have to

00:32:53.660 reconstruct population

00:32:54.760 totals from

00:32:55.660 micro-level data

00:32:56.800 on food supply,

00:32:58.000 settlement patterns,

00:32:58.860 village counts,

00:32:59.580 birth records,

00:33:00.220 and the like.

00:33:00.660 The most

00:33:02.300 sophisticated

00:33:02.920 modeling by

00:33:03.640 French and

00:33:04.180 Belgian

00:33:04.480 demographers

00:33:05.240 variously

00:33:06.160 suggests a

00:33:07.120 population of

00:33:07.820 8 to 11

00:33:09.420 million in

00:33:09.960 1885 and

00:33:10.880 10 to 12

00:33:11.660 million by

00:33:12.740 1908.

00:33:14.180 The Belgian

00:33:15.020 Jean-Paul

00:33:15.700 Sanderson,

00:33:16.440 using a

00:33:16.980 backward

00:33:17.360 projection

00:33:17.880 method by

00:33:18.600 age cohorts,

00:33:19.680 found a

00:33:20.000 slightly decline

00:33:20.740 from 10.5

00:33:22.620 million in

00:33:23.160 1885 to

00:33:24.060 10 million

00:33:24.640 in 1910.

00:33:26.240 The estimated

00:33:28.300 change in

00:33:29.500 total population

00:33:30.300 governed by

00:33:30.960 changing births

00:33:32.000 and deaths

00:33:32.460 rates over

00:33:33.100 a 25-year

00:33:34.240 period represents

00:33:35.240 a negligible

00:33:36.600 annual net

00:33:37.460 decline in

00:33:38.000 population.

00:33:39.160 Even taking

00:33:39.680 Sanderson's

00:33:40.540 pessimistic

00:33:41.320 estimate as

00:33:41.940 correct,

00:33:43.100 does this

00:33:43.400 mean that

00:33:43.740 Leopold's

00:33:45.700 rule killed

00:33:46.780 500,000

00:33:48.100 people?

00:33:49.380 Well, of

00:33:49.860 course not,

00:33:50.440 because in

00:33:50.780 addition to

00:33:51.460 the misplaced

00:33:52.120 personalization

00:33:52.880 of long-term

00:33:53.660 population

00:33:54.160 changes,

00:33:55.060 the rubber

00:33:55.380 regions,

00:33:55.820 as mentioned,

00:33:56.940 experienced both

00:33:57.620 population

00:33:58.160 increases and

00:33:59.020 decline,

00:33:59.540 even in

00:34:00.180 the latter,

00:34:02.500 such as the

00:34:03.040 rubber production

00:34:03.800 Bolu-Bolu area

00:34:05.000 in the lower

00:34:07.760 reaches of the

00:34:08.380 Congo River.

00:34:08.980 Population

00:34:09.320 decline was a

00:34:10.020 result of the

00:34:10.560 brutalities of

00:34:11.280 freelance native

00:34:11.900 chiefs and

00:34:12.860 ended with the

00:34:13.400 arrival of an

00:34:14.240 EIC officer.

00:34:15.580 So they show

00:34:16.240 up, then it

00:34:16.800 ends, and then

00:34:17.800 they take what

00:34:18.220 happened before

00:34:18.720 that as a

00:34:19.560 sign that they're

00:34:20.160 guilty.

00:34:20.660 It's incredible.

00:34:21.780 More generally,

00:34:22.440 the stability and

00:34:23.080 enforced peace of

00:34:24.180 the EIC caused

00:34:25.060 birth rates to

00:34:25.800 rise near EIG

00:34:27.560 centers, such as

00:34:28.640 the Catholic

00:34:29.220 Mission under

00:34:29.800 EIG protection

00:34:31.040 of Baudonville,

00:34:34.060 today's Kirungu.

00:34:37.340 That's a damn

00:34:37.860 shame.

00:34:38.540 Population

00:34:39.140 declines were in

00:34:40.000 areas outside of

00:34:41.140 effective EIC

00:34:43.180 control.

00:34:44.020 The modest

00:34:44.720 population gains

00:34:45.600 caused by EIC

00:34:46.480 interventions were

00:34:47.160 overwhelmed by a

00:34:48.500 range of wholly

00:34:49.280 separate factors.

00:34:50.720 factors.

00:34:51.300 Well, now you're

00:34:52.400 getting into

00:34:52.820 details and

00:34:53.860 objective reality.

00:34:55.760 This is too

00:34:56.360 complicated.

00:34:58.640 Imagine that.

00:34:59.240 It wasn't just

00:34:59.920 because evil

00:35:00.700 Europeans showed

00:35:01.480 up and killed

00:35:02.060 everybody and

00:35:02.620 chopped off their

00:35:03.180 hands because they

00:35:04.820 were sadistic and

00:35:05.560 had nothing better

00:35:06.100 to do.

00:35:06.980 It was other

00:35:07.420 factors, which

00:35:08.020 include, or which

00:35:10.520 in order of

00:35:11.000 importance were,

00:35:12.140 rather, the

00:35:13.140 slave trade,

00:35:14.500 sleeping sickness,

00:35:15.620 intertribal warfare,

00:35:16.700 other endemic

00:35:17.280 diseases like

00:35:17.960 smallpox,

00:35:19.180 barbaria,

00:35:20.520 influenza,

00:35:21.120 yellow fever,

00:35:21.640 pneumonia,

00:35:22.140 dysentery,

00:35:22.700 tuberculosis,

00:35:23.460 typhoid fever,

00:35:24.560 and vulnerable

00:35:25.240 venereal disease,

00:35:26.540 cannibalism,

00:35:28.340 and human

00:35:28.760 sacrifice.

00:35:31.520 Hochschild, in

00:35:32.500 a sense, knows

00:35:33.820 he will be called

00:35:34.700 out on this and

00:35:35.960 thus rolls out the

00:35:36.920 fudge that,

00:35:37.700 quote, although

00:35:38.300 outright murder was

00:35:39.700 not the major

00:35:40.420 cause of death,

00:35:41.100 unquote, the most

00:35:42.160 important determining

00:35:42.860 factor of demographic

00:35:43.700 trends in the entire

00:35:44.920 territory was the

00:35:46.080 finding and

00:35:47.740 using of labor

00:35:49.060 for rubber and

00:35:49.820 other devious

00:35:50.580 endeavors like

00:35:51.320 building railways.

00:35:52.840 Again, this is

00:35:53.480 simply untenable

00:35:54.720 and has never

00:35:56.080 been advanced by

00:35:57.000 any reputable

00:35:57.760 scholar.

00:35:58.380 In more, or

00:35:59.080 even more, it

00:36:00.060 is an insult to

00:36:01.100 Congolese who

00:36:02.100 fought against

00:36:02.680 native tyrants

00:36:03.600 and slavers

00:36:04.300 alongside the

00:36:05.020 EIC.

00:36:05.840 As the

00:36:06.100 anthropologist

00:36:06.540 Michael Singleton

00:36:07.160 noted, quote,

00:36:08.160 the condition of

00:36:08.780 African populations

00:36:09.900 resulted primarily

00:36:10.840 from the

00:36:11.260 demographic strategies

00:36:12.560 of those whose

00:36:13.860 lives were at

00:36:14.780 stake and not

00:36:15.960 from the

00:36:16.340 interventions,

00:36:17.320 well or ill

00:36:18.160 intentioned,

00:36:19.540 of foreigners. 0.51

00:36:22.600 All right.

00:36:24.180 It does go on

00:36:24.920 for a bit.

00:36:25.260 How could

00:36:25.740 Hochschild go so

00:36:26.720 wrong?

00:36:27.280 We get what's

00:36:28.520 going on here,

00:36:29.060 right?

00:36:29.220 But it's

00:36:29.660 fascinating when

00:36:31.160 you get into the

00:36:31.900 weeds of this.

00:36:35.340 Let me read a

00:36:36.100 little bit more

00:36:36.480 here.

00:36:36.720 We'll see if we've

00:36:37.800 had enough here.

00:36:39.280 Why did

00:36:39.880 Hochschild put

00:36:40.580 such stories in

00:36:42.160 plainly erroneous

00:36:43.140 data about a

00:36:44.160 loss of life

00:36:44.700 caused by the

00:36:45.280 EIC?

00:36:46.060 Here we come

00:36:46.760 to the horror

00:36:47.340 at the heart

00:36:47.780 of King

00:36:48.100 Hochschild's

00:36:49.020 hoax,

00:36:49.560 his attempt

00:36:50.100 to equate

00:36:50.760 the EIC

00:36:51.280 to the

00:36:52.200 Nazis

00:36:52.900 and to

00:36:54.260 the sacred

00:36:54.880 memory of

00:36:55.460 the Holocaust. 0.58

00:36:56.360 Oh my

00:36:56.680 God.

00:36:58.620 Oh my

00:36:59.120 God.

00:37:03.320 Is this a

00:37:03.720 well,

00:37:04.520 Europeans

00:37:05.200 for no reason

00:37:06.460 whatsoever,

00:37:07.020 they just

00:37:07.360 spurg out

00:37:07.920 and they just

00:37:08.440 kill a bunch

00:37:09.080 of people.

00:37:12.140 Holocaustism, 0.81

00:37:12.740 although of

00:37:13.040 course there's

00:37:13.380 only one,

00:37:13.840 there can be

00:37:14.140 only one,

00:37:14.760 right?

00:37:15.920 Of course we

00:37:16.520 know that,

00:37:16.860 yes,

00:37:17.080 yes,

00:37:17.320 Hochschild,

00:37:17.720 we know

00:37:17.920 that,

00:37:18.740 but they

00:37:19.420 just did

00:37:19.900 just all

00:37:20.420 over the

00:37:20.680 place.

00:37:21.000 They just

00:37:21.280 went out

00:37:22.140 and holocausted

00:37:22.900 people.

00:37:25.140 Europeans

00:37:25.460 have a

00:37:25.920 disease.

00:37:27.580 We have

00:37:28.200 to kill

00:37:28.580 them or

00:37:29.200 they will

00:37:29.460 kill us.

00:37:32.400 Throughout

00:37:32.840 the book

00:37:33.640 there is a

00:37:34.160 nauseating,

00:37:35.220 indeed enraging

00:37:36.340 use of

00:37:36.940 Holocaust and

00:37:37.800 Auschwitz

00:37:38.460 comparisons.

00:37:39.260 In part,

00:37:42.460 these reveal

00:37:43.300 an insecurity

00:37:44.460 about its

00:37:44.980 main thesis

00:37:45.860 and the

00:37:46.540 knowledge that

00:37:47.100 one way to

00:38:00.400 silence criticism

00:38:01.200 is to play

00:38:02.320 on the fact

00:38:02.920 that no one

00:38:03.760 wants to be

00:38:04.440 called a

00:38:05.380 Holocaust 0.95

00:38:05.760 denier.

00:38:07.660 Well,

00:38:07.860 why is that,

00:38:09.480 American

00:38:09.740 conservative?

00:38:10.460 Can you

00:38:10.700 please enlighten

00:38:11.920 me?

00:38:14.760 While we

00:38:15.460 know,

00:38:15.840 quote,

00:38:16.280 how many

00:38:16.780 Jews the

00:38:17.460 Nazis put

00:38:18.240 to death, 0.96

00:38:19.480 unquote,

00:38:20.740 how do we?

00:38:21.740 He menaces

00:38:22.640 readers,

00:38:23.680 insisting on

00:38:24.520 such precision

00:38:25.380 in the EIC

00:38:26.260 is distasteful.

00:38:28.620 You have

00:38:29.060 been warned.

00:38:29.720 Is that an

00:38:30.000 actual title?

00:38:30.960 I guess it's

00:38:31.860 the author of

00:38:32.640 this article

00:38:33.100 alluding to

00:38:34.180 that.

00:38:34.440 And the

00:38:36.180 strategy works.

00:38:37.360 In reviewing

00:38:37.800 Leopold II,

00:38:38.860 un roi

00:38:39.640 genocidier,

00:38:41.460 a royal

00:38:43.140 genociding,

00:38:44.460 a royal

00:38:45.860 genocider,

00:38:46.860 right,

00:38:47.080 that would

00:38:47.580 translate to,

00:38:48.700 a 2005

00:38:49.380 defense of

00:38:50.180 the EIC.

00:38:50.740 No,

00:38:51.040 no,

00:38:51.280 okay,

00:38:51.500 okay,

00:38:51.740 that's a

00:38:52.040 defense.

00:38:52.940 Is he

00:38:53.480 really a

00:38:54.060 genocide?

00:38:54.920 Is it

00:38:55.120 royal?

00:38:55.460 Is that

00:38:55.640 royal?

00:38:56.020 I think

00:38:56.240 it is,

00:38:56.480 isn't it?

00:38:57.260 A royal

00:38:57.980 genociding

00:38:59.100 maniac,

00:38:59.660 right?

00:39:00.300 So that's

00:39:00.860 a defense.

00:39:01.120 Okay,

00:39:01.320 the defense

00:39:01.880 of the EIC

00:39:02.360 by the Belgian

00:39:02.940 historian,

00:39:03.440 Michael

00:39:03.760 Dumoulion.

00:39:05.920 The emeritus

00:39:07.180 Boston University

00:39:08.180 professor,

00:39:08.840 Edward Baustein,

00:39:10.700 wrote malevolently,

00:39:12.420 Dumoulion is

00:39:13.240 waging a futile

00:39:14.520 and somewhat

00:39:15.180 unsavory battle

00:39:16.720 that is bound

00:39:17.560 to ring like

00:39:18.420 revisionist

00:39:19.140 versions of

00:39:19.840 the Holocaust. 0.58

00:39:20.280 The further

00:39:21.880 falsehoods and

00:39:22.680 distortions that

00:39:23.520 make up

00:39:24.180 King

00:39:24.520 Hochschild's

00:39:25.140 hoax all

00:39:26.060 collectively derive

00:39:26.880 from the

00:39:27.300 problems above.

00:39:28.640 Perhaps most

00:39:29.080 remarkably,

00:39:29.660 the book is

00:39:30.060 not really much

00:39:30.820 about the history

00:39:31.400 of the EIC

00:39:31.820 at all.

00:39:32.600 The central

00:39:33.080 activity that

00:39:34.020 justified,

00:39:34.700 motivated,

00:39:35.160 absorbed,

00:39:35.440 and in the

00:39:36.140 end defeated

00:39:37.060 the EIC

00:39:37.660 is missing.

00:39:38.620 The battle

00:39:38.940 against the

00:39:39.560 Afro-Arab

00:39:40.680 slave trade.

00:39:41.420 This is akin

00:39:43.340 to writing

00:39:43.800 a history

00:39:44.420 of the

00:39:44.640 68 years

00:39:45.180 of colonial

00:39:45.680 Kenya that 0.54

00:39:46.360 limits itself

00:39:47.000 only to

00:39:47.780 eight years

00:39:48.300 of Mao-Mao

00:39:49.280 counter-insurgency

00:39:50.280 campaigns.

00:39:51.860 Again,

00:39:52.200 Hochschild's

00:39:52.780 warily mentions

00:39:53.600 the efforts

00:39:54.100 to end

00:39:55.060 slavery at the 0.87

00:39:55.640 outset,

00:39:55.980 but merely

00:39:56.500 in order to

00:39:57.340 sneer at

00:39:58.080 them as

00:39:58.500 dubious.

00:39:59.580 Because of

00:40:00.260 prior European

00:40:01.040 involvement in

00:40:01.620 the slave

00:40:01.980 trade,

00:40:02.360 he mocks

00:40:02.960 the EIC's

00:40:03.680 campaign

00:40:04.080 against the

00:40:05.060 dastardly

00:40:06.280 slavers as

00:40:07.440 if they are

00:40:07.960 notable

00:40:08.480 proto-nationalists

00:40:09.800 and he

00:40:10.900 fawns over 0.81

00:40:11.940 the notorious

00:40:12.600 slaver

00:40:13.300 Tipi-Tipu-Tip

00:40:15.020 as handsome,

00:40:16.680 bearded,

00:40:17.420 strongly built.

00:40:19.600 Is he gay,

00:40:21.360 this guy?

00:40:22.580 As well as

00:40:23.360 shrewd and

00:40:24.260 resourceful with

00:40:25.140 administrative

00:40:25.820 acumen.

00:40:26.500 Oh, so here

00:40:27.040 we go again.

00:40:27.700 We have the

00:40:28.040 noble savage

00:40:29.540 at every step

00:40:31.200 of the way.

00:40:32.400 European's bad, 1.00

00:40:33.300 colonial is bad, 0.92

00:40:34.320 improving things

00:40:34.960 bad.

00:40:35.980 And look at

00:40:36.560 this handsome,

00:40:37.960 strongly built,

00:40:39.380 beautiful,

00:40:40.020 incredibly

00:40:40.860 resourceful,

00:40:41.880 noble savage.

00:40:46.520 Belgium had

00:40:47.360 no prior history

00:40:48.260 in the slave

00:40:48.920 trade,

00:40:49.260 nor of

00:40:49.820 African slaves. 0.81

00:40:51.720 Leopold could

00:40:52.240 fight against

00:40:53.060 slavery without

00:40:53.960 any hint of

00:40:54.880 hypocrisy,

00:40:55.460 even of the

00:40:56.420 ahistorical type

00:40:57.700 advanced by

00:40:58.340 Hochschild.

00:40:59.840 And it was

00:41:00.900 slavery,

00:41:01.800 not rubber

00:41:02.300 operations,

00:41:02.960 that contemporary

00:41:03.540 observers viewed

00:41:04.400 as the biggest

00:41:05.120 threat to the

00:41:05.920 people of the

00:41:06.380 Congo.

00:41:07.100 The missionary

00:41:07.620 Fannie Emma

00:41:08.700 Fitzgerald Guinness

00:41:09.860 was allowed to

00:41:11.100 visit one Arab

00:41:12.040 slave fort in

00:41:13.060 1890,

00:41:14.600 seeing, quote,

00:41:15.320 rose upon

00:41:16.460 rose of dark

00:41:18.000 nakedness,

00:41:19.160 reviled here and

00:41:20.140 there by the

00:41:21.000 white dresses of

00:41:22.040 the captors,

00:41:23.120 in one pen

00:41:24.080 holding,

00:41:24.900 in one pen

00:41:26.420 holding 2,300

00:41:28.440 souls.

00:41:29.020 see, it's okay

00:41:31.240 when the Arabs 0.92

00:41:31.940 do it.

00:41:32.540 They don't have

00:41:33.020 to, Muslims

00:41:34.600 are fine,

00:41:35.680 they're our

00:41:36.360 beautiful,

00:41:36.900 wonderful allies,

00:41:38.240 and they're here

00:41:40.240 to improve our

00:41:40.800 lives, okay?

00:41:42.520 They don't have

00:41:43.160 to pay back,

00:41:44.080 you know,

00:41:44.500 was it that

00:41:46.500 Germany is

00:41:46.940 repaying

00:41:48.240 Kenya, right?

00:41:50.560 Was that what it

00:41:51.100 was?

00:41:51.320 It was some

00:41:51.600 bullshit,

00:41:52.400 continue to,

00:41:53.580 we have reported

00:41:54.220 on this for years

00:41:54.720 now.

00:41:54.960 They're like,

00:41:55.240 here you go,

00:41:55.920 just forking out

00:41:56.580 billions and

00:41:57.100 billions of

00:41:57.500 euros now to

00:41:58.160 various African

00:42:00.120 nations to

00:42:01.440 pay back.

00:42:02.160 See what I'm

00:42:02.340 saying?

00:42:02.740 White guilt, 0.88

00:42:03.760 it's the biggest

00:42:04.320 disease.

00:42:05.500 Just, even if

00:42:06.840 we did these

00:42:07.620 things, I don't

00:42:08.580 fucking care.

00:42:10.060 I don't care.

00:42:10.960 I don't give a

00:42:11.620 fucking shit at

00:42:12.660 this point.

00:42:13.500 What's happening

00:42:14.140 to us now is a

00:42:15.740 crime.

00:42:16.540 That's what matters,

00:42:17.660 not what happened

00:42:18.260 over a hundred

00:42:18.720 years ago.

00:42:19.960 And then you

00:42:20.400 find out it

00:42:20.840 didn't even

00:42:21.320 happen.

00:42:22.360 It's incredible.

00:42:23.260 The lies,

00:42:23.940 the scum,

00:42:24.880 the historians,

00:42:26.860 the scum of

00:42:27.560 these academics

00:42:28.440 is incredible.

00:42:30.920 They need to

00:42:31.480 be exposed and

00:42:32.680 tossed out of

00:42:33.380 these universities.

00:42:36.040 She estimated

00:42:36.920 that for

00:42:37.780 every one

00:42:38.540 slave,

00:42:39.380 eventually sold,

00:42:40.300 seven died,

00:42:41.240 either in the

00:42:41.760 raids,

00:42:42.520 in the camps,

00:42:43.360 or while being

00:42:43.940 transported to

00:42:44.600 the Indian

00:42:44.980 Ocean.

00:42:45.780 In 1892,

00:42:46.820 a Belgian

00:42:47.160 trader and his

00:42:47.780 entire caravan

00:42:48.640 of six

00:42:49.040 Europeans and

00:42:49.560 40 porters

00:42:50.200 were beheaded

00:42:51.000 by a thug

00:42:51.720 controlled by

00:42:52.320 the notorious

00:42:52.840 slaver and

00:42:53.440 warlord,

00:42:53.860 Missouri,

00:42:55.300 who asked

00:42:55.860 that their

00:42:56.280 heads be

00:42:56.700 returned to

00:42:57.280 him to

00:42:57.980 decorate his

00:42:58.980 compound.

00:43:00.320 Fine,

00:43:00.800 fine noble

00:43:01.380 savages.

00:43:02.340 The trader

00:43:02.760 had tried to

00:43:03.680 persuade Missouri

00:43:04.520 and other

00:43:05.220 local tyrants

00:43:05.760 to sell their

00:43:06.580 ivory to his

00:43:07.320 company,

00:43:07.900 which could

00:43:08.380 transport it

00:43:09.880 by river,

00:43:10.640 thus

00:43:10.860 obviating,

00:43:14.360 avoiding the

00:43:16.140 need for

00:43:16.420 slaves.

00:43:16.720 I guess

00:43:16.900 that's the

00:43:17.220 term,

00:43:17.780 obviating.

00:43:18.460 The black 0.94

00:43:18.980 American

00:43:19.500 missionary

00:43:19.860 George

00:43:20.200 Washington

00:43:20.660 Williams

00:43:21.120 visited in

00:43:21.940 1890,

00:43:22.820 noted,

00:43:23.040 the most

00:43:24.000 revolting

00:43:24.660 crimes

00:43:25.220 committed by

00:43:26.080 the natives,

00:43:27.420 human hands

00:43:28.640 and feet

00:43:29.200 and limbs,

00:43:30.280 smoked and

00:43:30.920 dried,

00:43:31.380 are offered

00:43:31.840 and exposed

00:43:32.480 for sale

00:43:33.080 in many

00:43:33.660 of the

00:43:34.180 native

00:43:34.400 village markets.

00:43:35.120 From the

00:43:38.200 mouth of

00:43:38.780 the Lumami

00:43:39.900 River to

00:43:40.680 Stanley Falls,

00:43:41.880 there are

00:43:42.160 13 armed

00:43:43.260 Arab camps,

00:43:44.660 and in

00:43:45.020 them I

00:43:45.640 have seen

00:43:46.000 many skulls

00:43:46.900 of murdered

00:43:47.300 slaves,

00:43:47.860 pendants

00:43:48.160 from poles,

00:43:51.600 and over

00:43:52.260 these camps

00:43:52.920 floating their

00:43:53.740 blood-red flag.

00:43:55.380 Oddly,

00:43:56.260 Hochschild

00:43:56.600 quotes

00:43:56.940 Williams'

00:43:57.420 testimony

00:43:57.720 against

00:43:58.600 native

00:43:59.180 practices

00:43:59.700 to criticize

00:44:00.420 the EIC

00:44:00.900 for being

00:44:01.680 insufficiently

00:44:02.680 vigorous in

00:44:03.400 its attempt

00:44:04.220 to govern

00:44:04.900 the territory.

00:44:06.280 Heads I

00:44:06.780 win,

00:44:07.140 tails you

00:44:07.580 lose.

00:44:08.480 As this

00:44:08.960 logic slip

00:44:10.340 implies,

00:44:11.540 a justifiably

00:44:12.140 proportionate

00:44:12.700 response to

00:44:13.240 the scourge

00:44:13.640 of the

00:44:13.860 slave trade

00:44:14.340 required keen

00:44:15.100 efforts by

00:44:15.540 the EIC

00:44:15.860 to recruit

00:44:16.380 and feed

00:44:16.840 soldiers,

00:44:17.560 clearly clear

00:44:18.520 villages in

00:44:19.140 areas prone

00:44:19.700 to slave

00:44:20.100 raids,

00:44:20.700 establish

00:44:21.000 military and

00:44:21.620 governance

00:44:22.000 post,

00:44:22.520 and pursue

00:44:22.940 slave armies

00:44:23.680 to the

00:44:24.000 death.

00:44:24.280 We should

00:44:24.500 just have

00:44:24.860 never gotten

00:44:25.320 involved.

00:44:27.240 I'm utterly

00:44:28.180 convinced of

00:44:28.660 that.

00:44:29.620 Look at

00:44:30.260 the price

00:44:30.920 we have to

00:44:31.320 pay now

00:44:31.720 for this.

00:44:32.300 Now we

00:44:34.540 have

00:44:34.620 Haitians

00:44:35.000 coming in

00:44:35.340 the south,

00:44:35.960 right?

00:44:36.380 Sub-Saharan

00:44:36.700 Africans are

00:44:37.220 pouring into

00:44:37.820 Europe.

00:44:39.180 Accommodating

00:44:39.600 the Arab

00:44:39.940 slave traders

00:44:40.560 would be

00:44:41.320 a crime,

00:44:42.100 wrote the

00:44:42.260 EIC

00:44:42.440 captain and

00:44:42.980 later

00:44:43.240 World War

00:44:43.800 One hero,

00:44:44.640 Jules

00:44:44.920 Jacques

00:44:45.320 Demieux

00:44:46.040 of

00:44:46.420 1892.

00:44:49.340 Tackling

00:44:49.780 his boat

00:44:50.220 back in

00:44:50.760 the direction

00:44:51.460 of the

00:44:51.820 EIC

00:44:52.100 being too

00:44:52.820 vigorous,

00:44:53.480 Hochschild

00:44:53.780 transposes 0.54

00:44:54.560 EIC

00:44:54.820 efforts

00:44:55.200 against

00:44:55.680 slavery

00:44:56.060 into

00:44:56.300 cruel

00:44:56.580 efforts

00:44:56.900 for

00:44:57.400 rubber.

00:44:57.940 Nice

00:44:59.060 light of

00:44:59.320 hand there,

00:45:00.560 buddy.

00:45:01.940 The reader

00:45:02.320 is lured

00:45:02.980 into believing

00:45:03.740 that every

00:45:04.440 conflict he

00:45:05.080 documents is

00:45:05.840 about the

00:45:06.460 drive for

00:45:06.900 rubber,

00:45:07.340 not the

00:45:08.160 drive against

00:45:08.700 slavery or

00:45:09.680 inter-tribal

00:45:10.460 vendettas,

00:45:11.060 one of many

00:45:11.540 egregious

00:45:12.020 examples we

00:45:13.320 have to

00:45:13.960 suffice.

00:45:15.560 Hochschild

00:45:15.860 describes the

00:45:16.460 EIC

00:45:16.740 officer Leon

00:45:17.720 Fives as

00:45:18.840 a sadist

00:45:19.740 who,

00:45:20.400 quote,

00:45:20.500 terrorized the

00:45:21.520 rubber-rich

00:45:22.160 Equator

00:45:22.680 district where

00:45:23.540 he was

00:45:23.760 commissioner.

00:45:24.420 His sources

00:45:24.880 is the

00:45:25.460 George

00:45:27.080 Brouquet

00:45:27.620 mentioned

00:45:28.340 above.

00:45:29.320 Brouquet

00:45:29.800 lasted only

00:45:30.520 three years

00:45:30.980 in the

00:45:31.180 Congo

00:45:31.360 before dying

00:45:32.020 of either

00:45:32.540 typhoid or

00:45:33.480 malaria.

00:45:35.060 A common

00:45:36.060 occurrence for

00:45:36.640 the EIC

00:45:36.980 where the

00:45:37.620 annual mortality

00:45:38.300 rate for

00:45:38.760 European soldiers

00:45:39.380 was 20%.

00:45:40.480 Shit.

00:45:41.260 They would

00:45:41.460 go down

00:45:41.680 and sacrifice

00:45:42.500 our fucking

00:45:43.560 lives to

00:45:44.460 stop tribal 0.96

00:45:46.160 conflicts and

00:45:47.000 slavery and

00:45:47.700 eating hands

00:45:48.640 and whatever

00:45:48.900 fucking crazy

00:45:50.000 shit.

00:45:52.080 And then we

00:45:52.860 get to pay

00:45:53.260 for it.

00:45:53.680 Now we get

00:45:54.060 the pay.

00:45:54.640 Right?

00:45:55.180 Oh,

00:45:55.560 evil European 0.98

00:45:56.260 colonialism.

00:45:57.020 This is

00:45:57.240 Western,

00:45:58.000 you know,

00:45:58.540 it's just

00:45:58.900 Holocaust after 0.94

00:45:59.640 Holocaust with 0.95

00:46:00.320 these people.

00:46:02.260 Incredible.

00:46:04.020 And then again,

00:46:04.560 the diseases

00:46:05.120 take,

00:46:05.460 and then they

00:46:06.200 spin it,

00:46:06.680 right?

00:46:07.500 Typhus,

00:46:08.220 like a

00:46:08.560 dysentery,

00:46:09.700 typhoid,

00:46:10.340 malaria,

00:46:11.220 all these diseases

00:46:11.860 pop up,

00:46:12.380 people die,

00:46:13.240 and then they

00:46:13.840 turn that into,

00:46:14.940 well,

00:46:15.240 this was an

00:46:15.820 official just

00:46:16.700 conveyor belt

00:46:17.580 mass murdering

00:46:18.380 campaign.

00:46:23.280 They are,

00:46:24.240 what are they?

00:46:24.880 They are,

00:46:26.000 liar.

00:46:27.200 That's right.

00:46:29.700 Okay.

00:46:33.820 In the,

00:46:34.480 let me finish

00:46:35.200 this paragraph

00:46:35.620 and then we'll

00:46:36.080 wrap up here.

00:46:36.500 in the 1894

00:46:37.620 incident recalled,

00:46:39.320 Fives is

00:46:39.940 recounting to

00:46:40.600 Briqueux his 0.97

00:46:41.820 desperate attempts

00:46:42.720 to feed his

00:46:43.360 soldiers while

00:46:43.960 battling slave

00:46:44.860 lords in the

00:46:45.400 area.

00:46:46.100 There is no

00:46:46.600 mention of

00:46:47.120 rubber because

00:46:47.660 this particular

00:46:48.400 place had

00:46:49.060 little of it.

00:46:50.220 The slaving

00:46:50.740 business, on the

00:46:51.360 other hand,

00:46:51.680 is flourishing,

00:46:52.880 and Briquet notes

00:46:53.580 its devastation

00:46:54.540 everywhere.

00:46:55.480 Fives had

00:46:55.880 arrived a few

00:46:56.340 days earlier

00:46:57.020 and held

00:46:58.340 paraplay with

00:46:59.380 local chiefs.

00:47:00.180 They had

00:47:00.440 agreed to

00:47:01.000 supply his

00:47:01.480 soldiers with

00:47:02.000 food for

00:47:02.480 payment.

00:47:03.380 They then

00:47:03.820 reneged and

00:47:05.500 fled into the

00:47:06.180 forest.

00:47:06.720 Fives sent his

00:47:07.700 troops in

00:47:08.200 pursuit and in

00:47:09.320 the ensuing

00:47:10.080 fight, a

00:47:11.360 hundred of the

00:47:11.900 chief's soldiers

00:47:12.560 were killed.

00:47:13.180 After that, the

00:47:13.860 chiefs made

00:47:14.480 good on their

00:47:15.520 promise.

00:47:16.620 All right.

00:47:17.140 Anyway, it goes

00:47:17.620 on for a little

00:47:18.080 bit here.

00:47:18.420 But yeah,

00:47:18.840 bunch of

00:47:19.700 fucking lies.

00:47:21.060 Bruce Gilley,

00:47:23.780 professor of

00:47:26.540 political science

00:47:27.300 at the Mark

00:47:28.100 O. Hatfield

00:47:29.200 School of

00:47:29.900 Government at

00:47:31.280 Portland State.

00:47:32.620 Holy shit.

00:47:33.960 So if this

00:47:34.400 guy's Portland

00:47:35.000 State, I suspect

00:47:36.680 he'd be fired

00:47:37.640 after this.

00:47:39.680 Imagine my

00:47:40.960 shock, right?

00:47:42.340 Imagine my

00:47:43.080 shock.

00:47:44.000 This bunch of

00:47:45.160 lies and just

00:47:46.280 deceit.

00:47:47.800 And this is

00:47:48.940 why it's so

00:47:49.320 important to look

00:47:50.020 historically.

00:47:51.060 Break these

00:47:51.620 things down.

00:47:52.520 And I know we

00:47:53.420 won't be able to

00:47:53.940 convince everybody.

00:47:55.120 I know that

00:47:56.240 won't happen.

00:47:58.840 But enough to

00:48:00.500 tell the truth

00:48:01.520 to those who

00:48:02.500 are willing to

00:48:03.020 listen, to

00:48:04.880 have them

00:48:05.520 100% once

00:48:07.600 and for all

00:48:08.280 let go of

00:48:09.880 any and all

00:48:11.340 guilt for

00:48:12.660 being white,

00:48:13.800 for our

00:48:14.240 forebears, for

00:48:15.480 what our

00:48:15.860 ancestors did.

00:48:17.100 All of that

00:48:17.820 stuff just needs

00:48:18.540 to go.

00:48:18.880 It needs to go

00:48:19.300 out the window.

00:48:19.680 We did

00:48:21.020 nothing wrong.

00:48:22.760 That's the

00:48:23.300 mantra.

00:48:23.980 We did

00:48:24.460 nothing wrong.

00:48:26.760 We don't have

00:48:27.260 to say, well, we

00:48:27.840 try to improve

00:48:28.500 things.

00:48:28.980 We can, and

00:48:29.960 ironically, that is

00:48:31.660 the truth, right?

00:48:33.160 In many regards,

00:48:34.160 we try to help,

00:48:35.860 but no good deed

00:48:37.160 goes unpunished.

00:48:38.020 And now they're

00:48:38.360 turning it against

00:48:38.920 us.

00:48:39.340 Absolutely incredible.

00:48:40.080 All right.

00:48:43.040 So, we have a

00:48:45.720 couple of more

00:48:46.160 things we can end

00:48:46.860 on here too.

00:48:47.360 Resin Revolt over

00:48:48.180 on Rumble.

00:48:49.020 Excellent

00:48:49.240 presentation.

00:48:50.660 Thoroughly

00:48:50.980 enthralling,

00:48:51.740 informative, and

00:48:52.240 entertaining.

00:48:52.860 Bravo, bravo.

00:48:53.620 Thank you,

00:48:53.940 Resin Revolt.

00:48:54.380 Very kind of

00:48:54.860 you.

00:48:55.320 I appreciate

00:48:55.680 that.

00:48:56.100 Thank you so

00:48:56.420 much for your

00:48:57.140 kind and generous

00:48:58.340 super chat,

00:48:58.940 Resin.

00:48:59.660 Always good to

00:49:00.260 see you, sir.

00:49:01.220 Thank you.

00:49:01.660 Let me check if

00:49:02.140 we have any ones

00:49:03.040 I've missed on

00:49:03.760 Odyssey.

00:49:05.700 The second one,

00:49:06.420 I understand.

00:49:06.960 Sorry for the

00:49:07.260 outburst.

00:49:07.640 It's just, this

00:49:08.240 stuff really gets

00:49:08.700 me.

00:49:08.880 Oh, from

00:49:09.280 earlier?

00:49:09.660 No worries.

00:49:10.120 No, that was a

00:49:10.460 great comment,

00:49:10.920 second one.

00:49:11.320 Thank you.

00:49:12.220 Appreciate that.

00:49:15.460 Tommy Katz,

00:49:16.240 this narrator

00:49:16.720 sounds pathetic.

00:49:17.680 His voice

00:49:18.140 angers me.

00:49:18.960 Is it, who's

00:49:19.940 mine or

00:49:20.460 someone else's?

00:49:22.820 Well, if it's

00:49:23.260 mine, I'm

00:49:23.600 sorry.

00:49:25.520 No, we did

00:49:26.260 that one, and

00:49:27.780 I think we're

00:49:28.340 caught up.

00:49:29.920 So, that was

00:49:31.820 kind of the main

00:49:32.420 meat of what I

00:49:34.360 wanted to cover

00:49:34.800 today.

00:49:36.100 I might just

00:49:36.820 pull that out,

00:49:38.020 make it its own

00:49:38.560 segment or

00:49:38.920 something, so

00:49:39.260 you can share

00:49:39.600 that if you

00:49:39.980 want to send

00:49:40.320 that particular

00:49:40.760 thing.

00:49:41.220 But I remember

00:49:42.180 it vividly.

00:49:43.080 I mean, I

00:49:43.360 started looking

00:49:46.340 into these

00:49:46.680 things after

00:49:47.040 2001 or

00:49:49.520 9-11, the

00:49:50.220 terrorist attacks,

00:49:52.160 the collapse

00:49:53.720 of the towers

00:49:54.560 and that one

00:49:56.020 other building

00:49:56.660 in September

00:49:58.340 of 2001.

00:49:59.300 That's when I

00:49:59.600 began looking

00:50:00.000 into all kinds

00:50:00.500 of stuff,

00:50:01.080 right?

00:50:01.720 Onto this

00:50:02.320 path, trying

00:50:03.000 to find truth

00:50:03.680 and awaken

00:50:04.600 to all these

00:50:05.160 things, right?

00:50:06.000 And along

00:50:06.460 the way,

00:50:07.680 maybe this

00:50:09.460 is like

00:50:09.680 2003, 2004

00:50:11.400 or something

00:50:12.160 like that,

00:50:12.540 maybe a little

00:50:13.260 bit later.

00:50:13.800 It's hard to

00:50:14.420 pin down the

00:50:14.880 exact years

00:50:15.320 there, but I

00:50:16.080 came across

00:50:16.660 that documentary

00:50:17.860 that I mentioned

00:50:18.320 to you.

00:50:20.040 Congo,

00:50:20.500 White King, 0.59

00:50:20.960 Red Rubber,

00:50:21.360 Black Death.

00:50:22.320 Oh my God,

00:50:23.100 you know what I

00:50:23.300 mean?

00:50:23.820 And those are

00:50:24.320 the kinds of

00:50:24.700 things that

00:50:25.180 kept me,

00:50:26.040 I mean, I

00:50:26.300 wasn't like

00:50:26.700 anti-white,

00:50:29.180 but it was

00:50:29.480 like this weird

00:50:30.000 kind of like,

00:50:30.360 oh, look at

00:50:30.760 what the

00:50:33.220 royals do,

00:50:35.140 or, you

00:50:35.340 know, kind

00:50:35.620 of thing,

00:50:35.880 whatever.

00:50:37.000 And look,

00:50:37.380 today they

00:50:37.800 don't deserve

00:50:38.240 that praise.

00:50:39.180 It's like

00:50:39.680 clarified in

00:50:40.200 the segment

00:50:41.400 on King

00:50:42.400 Charles,

00:50:42.960 you know,

00:50:43.140 his World

00:50:43.460 Economic Forum

00:50:44.040 super diverse

00:50:45.140 coronation in

00:50:45.960 the latest

00:50:46.340 Western Warrior.

00:50:47.660 Check that

00:50:47.940 out, by the

00:50:48.180 way, if you

00:50:48.440 haven't seen

00:50:48.700 it yet.

00:50:49.580 Went through

00:50:50.060 the WF

00:50:51.280 King here

00:50:51.720 going through

00:50:54.860 his coronation.

00:50:56.540 They don't

00:50:57.220 deserve it,

00:50:57.960 but these

00:50:58.540 guys back

00:50:59.120 then, this

00:50:59.620 is like

00:50:59.920 1800s,

00:51:01.260 early 1900s.

00:51:03.340 I think

00:51:03.920 there are

00:51:04.140 much better

00:51:04.900 regions than

00:51:05.700 anyone in

00:51:07.080 the few

00:51:07.340 remaining

00:51:07.580 European

00:51:07.880 royal families

00:51:08.460 have today.

00:51:09.260 These were

00:51:09.660 probably genuinely

00:51:11.020 good men that

00:51:11.880 tried to do

00:51:12.300 good things,

00:51:12.860 and they

00:51:13.080 tried to

00:51:13.400 improve,

00:51:14.380 and they

00:51:14.740 figured,

00:51:15.180 you know what

00:51:15.400 I mean,

00:51:15.520 like they

00:51:15.840 came down

00:51:16.680 to Africa,

00:51:17.280 they saw

00:51:17.640 clearly these

00:51:18.240 people have

00:51:18.680 done nothing

00:51:19.200 with it.

00:51:21.160 We'll bring

00:51:22.240 them civilized,

00:51:22.940 we'll help

00:51:23.420 them out,

00:51:23.760 we'll bring

00:51:24.100 them civilization,

00:51:25.200 right?

00:51:25.600 Maybe we can

00:51:26.180 stop the

00:51:26.640 slave trade.

00:51:27.120 It was like

00:51:27.320 this, and

00:51:27.880 you have to

00:51:28.480 understand,

00:51:28.880 Britain today

00:51:31.640 is accused of

00:51:32.440 slave trade,

00:51:33.660 and blah,

00:51:34.040 blah, blah.

00:51:34.440 They were the

00:51:34.780 first to end

00:51:35.440 it, and

00:51:35.740 they went on

00:51:36.180 a ruthless

00:51:36.720 campaign,

00:51:37.800 sacrificing their

00:51:38.820 own lives to

00:51:40.540 end it in

00:51:41.180 other parts of

00:51:41.780 the world.

00:51:42.560 There's still

00:51:43.120 slave trade

00:51:43.800 today in some

00:51:44.780 of these parts,

00:51:45.400 still to this

00:51:46.080 day.

00:51:46.780 It's so

00:51:47.360 ingrained.

00:51:49.720 And it's

00:51:50.220 almost like,

00:51:50.820 if you're

00:51:51.260 going to guilt

00:51:51.680 us for just

00:51:52.340 trying to

00:51:53.000 help,

00:51:54.000 why should

00:51:55.360 we at this

00:51:56.000 point?

00:51:56.220 I get that

00:51:58.780 adventurous

00:51:59.780 spirit they

00:52:00.420 had at that

00:52:00.760 time,

00:52:01.080 they wanted

00:52:01.340 to chain

00:52:02.440 stuff,

00:52:03.000 they wanted

00:52:03.200 to colonize,

00:52:04.720 we're not

00:52:04.880 seeing as

00:52:05.220 some rape 0.99

00:52:05.980 of the

00:52:06.260 real,

00:52:06.400 this was

00:52:06.700 seen as

00:52:07.000 not yet

00:52:09.460 undeveloped,

00:52:10.780 raw nature,

00:52:12.360 and even

00:52:13.920 people to

00:52:16.200 form, to

00:52:17.100 shape, to

00:52:17.780 help out,

00:52:18.380 we can

00:52:18.980 teach and

00:52:19.600 build schools

00:52:20.600 and universities

00:52:21.620 and we'll

00:52:22.140 build railroad

00:52:22.780 tracks and

00:52:23.500 we'll bring

00:52:23.860 these buildings

00:52:24.640 to them,

00:52:25.200 we'll bring

00:52:25.580 Palladian

00:52:26.020 architecture

00:52:26.620 there and

00:52:27.040 classic

00:52:27.500 buildings from

00:52:30.760 antiquity,

00:52:31.600 stuff.

00:52:33.020 I genuinely

00:52:33.520 think it was

00:52:33.960 based on

00:52:34.700 those kinds

00:52:35.520 of aspirations.

00:52:36.300 And then

00:52:36.520 later on,

00:52:38.540 it goes

00:52:39.380 sour, it

00:52:39.860 doesn't succeed

00:52:40.460 in all areas,

00:52:41.040 and now

00:52:41.940 we have a

00:52:42.280 bunch of

00:52:42.800 activists

00:52:43.520 and anti-whites

00:52:44.900 and Jews

00:52:45.960 and leftists

00:52:47.280 and racially

00:52:48.840 motivated people

00:52:49.660 who hate whites,

00:52:50.560 who hate

00:52:50.800 Western civilization,

00:52:52.000 weaponizing this

00:52:53.060 against us.

00:52:56.240 It's a

00:52:57.400 travesty,

00:52:58.300 but we just

00:52:58.780 have to let

00:52:59.900 go of that

00:53:00.300 guilt.

00:53:01.280 And we're in

00:53:02.080 the situation

00:53:02.540 we are today

00:53:03.400 partially because

00:53:04.380 of those kinds

00:53:04.880 of things and

00:53:05.280 how they've

00:53:05.760 spun that

00:53:07.120 history.

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Red Ice TV - May 12, 2023

King Leopold's “Genocidal” Rule Over Belgian Congo Is A Hoax

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