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A ghost laid to rest?
Are the claims about a full-scale genocide in King Leopold´s so-called Congo Free State really Woke-revisionist history?
The first link goes to an interesting article in "The American Conservative" which argues that the real threat in the Congo at the time were the Arab slave-raiders and various local warlords (many of them cannibals). The essay is a scathing criticism of the book "King Leopold´s Ghost", which claims that 10 million people were killed in the Congo Free State during Leopold´s rule of the area.
The second link goes to my old review of a book published in 1897 dealing with precisely this issue.
Bless the ice
Apparently, Pope Leo blessed a bloc of ice (!) recently at some kind of climate activist event. Wtf, I love Pope Leo now. Could...he...be...a covert panentheist?!
It was but a dream
So I´ve been browsing the interwebs. Is the far right´s flirt with Pope Leo officially over now?
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