I won. "Most [Brits] think the British Empire is more something to be proud of (59%) rather than ashamed of (19%)."https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/07/26/britain-proud-its-empire/ …
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What you won, alas, is the votes of people kept ignorant of the atrocities of Empire by wilful historical amnesia. Congratulations!
The choice, @ShashiTaroor, was between Britain's empire and other, much worse ones. You don't have an answer to this.pic.twitter.com/pQRdnGpVGg
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Actually I do. And it's NO. Losing an Empire through postwar exhaustion does NOT expunge sins of loot, depredation, massacres &racism.
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When this is what passes for a historian in the UK, you can see why survey results like that are returned
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British did do that too, but a lot earlier
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'we were better than Nazis'. Whatay fine colonialist argument.
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Moral relativism at its worst. Your answer to everything appears to be 'Look over there! Belgians! Nazis! Russians!'. No help to victims.
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