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Attributing any mention of possible positive impacts of British colonialism to apologism on the part of the poster is itself a bad look. Let the good and bad b
by onecommentman 2y ago
Attributing any mention of possible positive impacts of British colonialism to apologism on the part of the poster is itself a bad look. Let the good and bad be dredged out of the swamp of the past, washed off and compared. Nobody alive has any significant skin in the British Raj at this point.
Save your self-censorship argument for Tibet, Kashmir, Taiwan, Ukraine, Kashmir, etc. Talk about bad looks (and actual personal danger for some).
- bdangubic 2y ago“those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it…"
- Two4 2y agoTo clarify, we're talking about the idea that colonial subjugation might not have been any worse than the power structures that were displaced in terms of excess deaths. This is not the same as saying the British built railways, and also demonstrably untrue, both statistically and philosophically. A passing knowledge on the horrors of colonialism would qualify one to identify this idea as colonial apologism.