Originally posted by: IAmLuvBolly
Nope. Sorry. I completely disagree here.
First of all the premise that he was talking about recent times sounds like a very weak public relations cover up. But even if he was, how the hell does one not count the Balkan war? Over 100000 Muslims were massacred. There were mass rapes of Muslim women by Serbian soldiers. Over 2 million displaced. It was a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. How in the four letter word does a grow ass prince who is on the verge of becoming a crown prince and a statesman not think of the Balkan war? To borrow his own words, it happened so close to him. His own mother was in Bosnia as part of a Land Mines Survivors network right before her death. Give me a break.
Yes, this statement was absolutely 100% racist. In the same way that all those reporters or even government officials in the past two weeks have been racists. All the talks about this war being different because this is a different civilization than Iraq and Afghanistan, and these blonde hair blue eyed refugees are not Muslims. They are all, including William, looking at this from the lens of this is happening to our own people and not those dark skinned people in Asia or Africa. That’s racist.
Should we do a quick history course of what role Europe has played in the wars of Middle East and Africa? There is a reason these regions have been volatile in recent decades and Europe is a huge part of that, of not the main reason.
Absolutely..they didn't fight among themselves..someone incited those wars for their own benefit..exploited those nations, left them in dire circumstances and then have the audacity to call them undeveloped, uncivilized n primitive.