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praptak ◴[] No.42162573[source]
"They can have the former only by complete destruction of every Indian-man, woman and child"

Unfortunately this is not a rhetoricallly exaggerated and obviously impossible choice. Settler colonialism exists and relies exactly on this approach. I wonder how certain could Gandhi be that the British wouldn't choose this approach.

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1. zerr ◴[] No.42162589[source]
Because British already knew the taste of cheap (free) human labour?