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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could we call them different flavours of imperialism, though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Words like this are fun for schoolkids but don't say anything at all about what was actually done. It's an effort to take something phenomenally complex and reduce it to a slogan. Slogans are good for fostering outrage, but not much else, and they distract attention from detail. Leave slogans to politics, not history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always welcome being condescended upon. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If that's what you want to take from it, it's up to you. That was not my intention. What I said is entirely true.