body { -ms-overflow-style: scrollbar; overflow-y: scroll; overscroll-behavior-y: none; } .errorContainer { background-color: #FFF; color: #0F1419; max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 10%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; } .errorButton { margin: 3em 0; } .errorButton a { background: #1DA1F2; border-radius: 2.5em; color: white; padding: 1em 2em; text-decoration: none; } .errorButton a:hover, .errorButton a:focus { background: rgb(26, 145, 218); } .errorFooter { color: #657786; font-size: 80%; line-height: 1.5; padding: 1em 0; } .errorFooter a, .errorFooter a:visited { color: #657786; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 1em; } .errorFooter a:hover, .errorFooter a:active { text-decoration: underline; } #placeholder, #react-root { display: none !important; } body { background-color: #FFF !important; }

JavaScript is not available.

We’ve detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using twitter.com. You can see a list of supported browsers in our Help Center.

Terms of Service Privacy Policy Cookie Policy Imprint Ads info © 2023 Twitter, Inc.

Conversation

In general, colonialism was a net _____ for the cultures who got colonized

Positive
40.3%
Neutral
16%
Negative
43.7%

4,974 votesFinal results

67

31

27

Replying to

Doesn't look like you have many formerly colonised followers. 😜

1

1

Replying to

I can't tell which side this is supposed to be support for

7:06 PM · Jan 7, 2020

Replying to

I've almost never heard the descendants of colonised people be anything less than vehemently against colonialism. It was a dominatory invasion. Their remnants lie in museums like the Pitt Rivers. Pillage, dispossession, dissolution... common descriptors in postcolonial places.

2

Replying to

Yeah, I feel a bit mixed about it? Like, it depends heavily on the individual place that got colonized - wide variety in how shitty the colonizers were - and while original cultures were often suppressed, a lot of benefits came too (tech and medicine).

1

Show replies