Chiron
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@Chiron: I've got two alternate history questions for you:
1. Just how inevitable do you believe that the eventual partition of India was with a PoD of January 1, 1914 or later?
2. Just how inevitable do you believe that the eventual French exit from Algeria was with a PoD of January 1, 1914 or later?
If the British hadn't treated India as a place to loot and instead made its people British Citizens with equal rights and industrialized it, India would be a unified Commonwealth of the British Empire. If they do it in 1914, it is still possible as there was a sense amongst the more educated Indians that this was a way forward. If the British had been less racist and willing to embrace India it was possible and we be taking orders from the British Empire.
As for Algeria, if the French had simply made all Algerians citizens without pre-conditions and allowed local rule, they would still hold it today. Instead they were racist and engaged in petty insults and assaults on Muslim Women and turned them against them.
Nothing is inevitable, but to prevent collapse is very hard to do and requires openness and not exclusion, and restraint. One of my neighbors only just today realized I was Muslim after 10 years of insulting my faith in casual conversation with me.
He took a few moments to get over his BSOD because he thought that because I supported Trump and was a member of Gab, that I was a Christian. He asked why I never tried to kill him.
I explained that Abu Sufyan who said and did far worse things than he did was forgiven by the Prophet Muhammad so I forgave him and shared a root beer with him.