I've seen this posted a few places and there's amazing number of people who aren't able to pick up on it. For the first frame no it's not really MSG people. It's a British person selling opium to Chinese kids. They're tricking them. They're British it's what they do. For the second frame I'm deeply concerned about how many people aren't able to read the facial expression and body language of the two native women. Somehow some of y'all looked at them and thought yeah they seem happy despite the frowning faces and sad looks on their face. It's implying the rape.
Drug pedaling Brits and rapacious conquistadors. That's the message of this comic. Media literacy not at a high it seems
It's because it's a fucking gross depiction. Everyone gets that.
It's also the weirdest mix of historical innaccuracy and self censorship.
they should give the indigenous women knives
Narrator voice: the Spaniards did not, in fact, "love" brown women.
(It took about forty years after contact for the church to declare indigenous people as actually human with the 'Sublimis Deus' papal bull in 1537.)
I'm surprised it didn't take longer.
Well that was the church, not the conquistadors or the spanish crown and emperor. I believe the history went along the lines of some clergy felt the conquistadors were being a little too barbaric and unchristian, so they convinced the Spanish to debate it a few decades later and eventually convinced them to take a break for a few years.
pretty gross whitewash of the rape, torture and enslavement of many thousands of women and children by colonizers
I'm pretty sure that the second page is depicting the scene before the rape takes part, both natives look displeased because they were forced to be there. And the left one could be a kid.
Idk what's being whitewashed in this metaphorical rape illustration tbh.
People are completely media illiterate and see the "main"character of the picture being happy and thus immediately think it's a celebration of the bad thing
And all of the straight up genocide.
Yeah,that post wasn't even funny by 4chan standards.
I don’t think I understand the first slide. The Japanese invented MSG.
I thought it was referring to the Opium Wars
Dunno how you get that. MSG has nothing to do with opium.
Some nations like the British colonized and conquered by fucking with the people. The other end of the spectrum, Spain and others just fucked the people.
The hell kind of sick joke is this?
The conquistadors literally drug women out into the valleys underneath where the Inca were barricaded up and raped them so their screams would echo up to the besieged, whom they later either slaughtered or enslaved, and beheaded the rulers after forcibly converting them to Catholicism and hid their remains so they couldn't be worshipped in Inca tradition. Is that what you consider "just fucking"?
Wrong. The Spaniards did a lot of murder.
Funnily enough a pretty large portion of Robinson Crusoe is about how superior the British colonial method is because healthy slaves make more money.
The french name for this is "café au lait" (for the french).
