Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
What exactly is this discussion about anyway?

Britain did not leave its colonies looking like Mordor: that's not really something we should be obliged to be thankful for.

The natives were oppressed by their colonial overlords: they would have been oppressed by native overlords otherwise.

It all seems like a lot of puffery to me.

Yeah, but now they are free to be oppressed!