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How can people try to defend imperialism/colonialism?

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But, as far as I can tell, most other 'imperialism' made little difference to the levels of suffering that would have gone on anyway. There were some especially grim affairs in Tasmania, Patagonia, Namibia and Congo but both before and after the colonial period there were equally grim matters. read more

Can you be more specific about the ‘horrific human suffering’. The Spanish involvement in America did involve some horrific suffering. But, as far as I can tell, most other ‘imperialism’ made little difference to the levels of suffering that would have gone on anyway. read more

Make no mistake, Ireland has many friends and sympathisers in Britain. For centuries there have been people in Britain opposed to the colonialist endeavours in Ireland and elsewhere. Any Irish person who takes issue with someone simply because he's an Englishman is misguided. But I'm sure most people are just ripping into those who defend imperialism. read more

There was another strand of justification, though, that did argue that imperialism was good for the colonized. This can be best seen in Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden." In this view, the people who got colonized were lesser people who needed to be civilized and brought into the modern world. read more

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