> The continent was raped, looted and pillaged by Europeans and Americans. Complete populations were enslaved. Natural resources were stolen, cultures were dest

> The continent was raped, looted and pillaged by Europeans and Americans. Complete populations were enslaved. Natural resources were stolen, cultures were destroyed. Our species is a violent one. The same can be said of other continents. Africa had the same problems long before America was hardly even a thing. You could just as easily give counter examples of say gunboat diplomacy cracking open Japan and hurling it out of stasis and into modernity. > The top post on this thread is saying the apartheid government was bad yes... But they made the trains run on time! You are not doing the people you purport sympathy for any favors with such an attitude. Trains need to run, electric grids need to work. The observation on competency in no way implies endorsement of the previous government. People are objectively worse off now, believe it or not (look into it before arguing), while you get to moralize from far away. Nobody is arguing for a return to the previous regime obviously. What you're doing simply isn't helpful.