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		trextrex on Jan 15, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through ... Surely, it was quite noble of them to stop the slave trade in Benin while colonising, exploiting and draining their wealth.

larkeith on Jan 16, 2018 [–]

This is an ignoratio elenchi - the parent discussion was regarding the destruction of the Walls of Benin; other matters of British occupation of Benin as a whole are irrelevant unless related.

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