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"Time to chop off some Congolese hands for not meeting their rubber quota!" (infosec.pub)
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[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 4 points 5 months ago

Still a lot of denial about this in Belgium. At school I was told that the accounts of hands being cut as a punishment for minor slights were greatly exaggerated.

Don't try to make jokes about someone's great-grandfather just asking the Congolese to lend a hand also, the posh people I said it to pretended they didn't get it.