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I don’t think that is at all accurate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_genocide



Yeah. I'm from Malaysia, and while we definitely benefited in many ways, to state that we do not still have massive and pervasive social issues as a result of colonization is insane. I'm glad you posted the link above and spoke up. I didn't even know where to start, but was worried someone might take the original comment seriously.


This viewpoint is still way too popular and was also used to genocide millions of indigenous people, we definitely need to keep speaking up against that.


what point are you making?




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