[HN Gopher] Is Norway the New East-India-Company?
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       Is Norway the New East-India-Company?
        
       Author : solididiot
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2021-12-27 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | josephcsible wrote:
       | Strange to paint the East India Company as evil while
       | simultaneously admitting it's the only reason that Hong Kong was
       | ever liberated.
        
         | AussieWog93 wrote:
         | I don't see it as strange at all.
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         | Hitler turned around Germany's economy in the 30's. Stalin
         | liberated Eastern Europe from the genocidal Nazis. Nelson
         | Mandela plotted terrorist attacks as a young activist.
         | 
         | Good people (and organisations) do bad things, and bad people
         | do good things. It doesn't change the fact that the British
         | East India Company was rotten to the core, and the Opium Wars
         | were absolutely abhorrent abuses of China's sovereignty and
         | human rights.
        
       | unixhero wrote:
       | No. This reads to me like oil envy.
        
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