Oddbean new post about | logout
 A lot of non-Western elites were, in earlier centuries. Colonialism was good for some!

The same people today who denounce colonialism, glorify the process when it happens to the West. 
 They see our colonization as payback for theirs. Of course, they colonized us, first, in Europe, and the populations are partially mixed-race, now, making "us versus them" sort of nonsensical, but whatever. 
 Our elites claim it is payback for previous acts of colonisation, to be specific.

I rarely hear actual immigrants saying anything like that, unless they are academics who have abandoned their birth culture to suck up to our elites.

Both this, and previous episodes of colonialism, are substantially campaigns of class warfare, with a lesser role as intra-elite conflict. 

They're winning hard presently, judging by the birth rate and the banking and property sectors.