Can’t help thinking that the movement to tear down statues of slavers and imperialists around the UK has also been energized by a backlash against all the Union Flag waving triumphalist racist garbage we’ve been forced to swallow for 4 years in the name of Brexit. /1
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A moral calculus that tried to weigh in the balance folks who survived illness due to pencillin against people who died in the Bengal famine would be blatantly morally bankrupt. So let's not even go there.
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What I *can* say is that the existence of the British Empire magnified the effects—on a global scale—of phenomena local to the British isles, whether for better or worse. (Just as today events in the USA resonate globally, even though the USA is only 5% of the human population.)
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Oh absolutely, it was definitely rhetorical as far as answering it fully on Twitter. More to promote thought and a recognition of the cultures we have taken from. I don't think many people appreciate the sheer amount of wealth we took out of India, for example.
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It's an *interesting* question but I wouldn't trust any answer delivered by an historian of British descent writing within living memory (say, 120 years) of the end of the British empire (arbitrary: 1996, departure from Hong Kong). Leave it to posterity.
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