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Well of course it isn't. :) Amongst people who think it is, there are basically two reasons: 1. Africa is where brown people live. 2. We (in the UK) tend to
by parenthephobia 11y ago
Well of course it isn't. :)
Amongst people who think it is, there are basically two reasons:
1. Africa is where brown people live.
2. We (in the UK) tend to have a romantic rose-tinted view of how the British Empire treated its colonies. We imagine that our rule was a net positive for the countries we occupied, bringing civilization to primitive tribes. One of the effects of losing the war is that the German people weren't allowed to forgot the atrocities of Nazi Germany. We, on the other hand, were allowed to forget our own atrocities.
- hackuser 11y ago> We imagine that our rule was a net positive for the countries we occupied Just adding to your excellent points: The words net positive are used to justify almost every attrocity in history, including Hitler, Stalin, Mao ... torture by the US government (not comparable to those three but the same rationale) ... etc. etc. You have to break a few eggs to make an omlette, as they say.