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Consumers of Rubber

855053_1 — 2025-04-22 17:18:30 UTC

Argument

855053_1 — 2025-04-22 17:18:45 UTC

Consumers of Rubber are responsible for the details of around 10 million people because if it wasn't for the businesses doing so well from the Europeans buying and using the rubber for everything and anything then King Leopold wouldn't have had to exploit and killed the Congolese people.

Evidence 1

855053_1 — 2025-04-22 17:19:05 UTC

As it states in the Consumers of Rubber article "You brought this valuable commodity without any concern for its origins. As obedient supporters of capitalism, you failed to question where the rubber came from and how it was harvested."

Evidence 2

855053_1 — 2025-04-22 17:19:12 UTC

As it states in the Consumers of Rubber article "You knew exactly how far your leaders would go to make a profit"

Evidence 3

855053_1 — 2025-04-22 17:19:18 UTC

As it states in the Consumers of Rubber article "Your complicity allowed Congo to become the most profitable colony in Africa by the opening of the 20th century and the site of some of the most horrific colonial atrocities."

Reasoning 1

855053_1 — 2025-04-22 17:19:25 UTC

This evidence show consumers of Rubber are to blame because they used the rubber for everything and they used it as something that was just at the used of there finger tips without worrying about where it came from.

Reasoning 2

855053_1 — 2025-04-22 17:19:34 UTC

This quotes shows that they were feeding into King Leopolds trap and making him richer so he wants to keep doing this so he can keep his wealth.

Reasoning 3

855053_1 — 2025-04-22 17:38:47 UTC

This piece of evidence shows that Consumers of Rubber because they are what drove King Leopold to the actions that he did