Call to topple Christopher Columbus statue from its Barcelona perch
Hey, hey.
Ho, ho.
They have more sympathy for Twain, To a Person Sitting in Darkness than for Kipling, The White Man's Burden.
None at all for the liberal imperialism of J S Mill.
But all of that concerns imperialism and the supposed civilizing mission that was cited in its justification, and justifies interventions today.
Colonialism, something quite different, is at issue in the attacks on the half millennium long white peopling of the Americas, of Oceania, and various other parts of the world.
As massive and destructive of indigenous societies and cultures as the Volkerwanderung was to the Roman world, but also its opposite because the European civilization that replaced utterly the native societies was so vastly and progressively their superior.
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