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Colonialism was worse than Nazism. This sounds controversial but it’s really not. Just imagine that non-white people are also people. It’s easy if you try.
Imagine that Nazis succeeded and really did establish a centuries-long Reich. That they used racial superiority to take land, kill people, set up concentration camps, practice torture, and loot. That’s exactly what happened to non-white people. For centuries.
European colonialism went on for hundreds of years and killed millions. It was a global scourge, a web of atrocity unparalleled in human history. Millions were tortured, starved, subjected to disease, and oppressed. Our resources, labor, and very humanity was stolen — and we carry “debts” that continue to this day. You still keep our artifacts in your museums and our jewels in your crowns.
The only real difference between colonialism and Nazism is that the former happened to non-white people.
So it didn’t happen.
It was just a nice civilizing effect, it brought railroads, and left good architecture. Today ‘colonial’ is a selling point for holiday homes, or furniture. A style, a fantasy really. Colonialism was all good until Hitler tried colonizing white…
