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I’ve noticed even in the way people write about it a tendency to try to filter things enough that you can even stand to look at it. (Some of this I’m sure is what I’m choosing to look at. I haven’t even attempted to look head on at Belgium in the Congo for instance.)
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What are the dimensions of sorrow, negative outcomes, outlier incidents and undue processes that are different in your opinion? Or other indicators/metrics that lead you to say so? Would love to know. Were the Imperialists kinder to Asia? Also, the role of religion?
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Isn't Africa, by which I mean living Africans, unambiguously better off for colonialism? African population increased 10x and life expectancy went from ~25 to ~60 years; both trends commencing with European colonialism. Not to get all Mere Addition/Repugnant Conclusion but...