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You are "cherry-picking" by talking about the entire US history. Again, we're not living in those eras. we're living in NOW, when blacks are by far the most violent in America,Actually if you want to talk about race and violence in the US, we talk about racial violence from the start, not what you cherry pick. When we do that, we see whites are the most violent and it's not even close.
If we are talking about the world,
INDIAN HOLOCAUST under British Raj: 1.8 BILLION excess deaths (350 million Muslim), IGNORED by Anglo media - Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide
So now you want to talk about the British in India. OK, I'll go there with you.
First, I have to refute your absurd claim of 1.8 Billion deaths, from a weird website that doesn't even provide an identity. 35 million is closer to the actual number.
Britain responsible the deaths of 35 million Indians, politician who says we need to face up to colonial past points out
To be serious, you’d also have to answer questions like, ‘How many people did the brutal rulers the British supplanted, murder?’ too. The British didn’t take over from liberal democracies.
You’d also have to ask, "How many lives did the British save?" You could ask, ‘If the British had won the American Revolutionary War, how much more quickly would all the slaves have been freed?’ You might then lament an early curtailment of colonial power, no? But you don’t want that. You want to make a point, and I’d guess you want to protect yourself from complexity and reality too.
Then, to give it context, you could ask about all the other murderous regimes in the world, and see where Britain’s activities lie to gain a deeper understanding. You might ask how non-colonial projects kill in large numbers, or how Britain tried to stop Nazi Germany alone when others collaborated or stood idly by.
Then you’d start to get somewhere intellectually. But… I don’t think you want to get anywhere intellectually.
Speaking of intellectuals, here is one point of view about Britain conquest >>
Karl Marx: "The question is not whether the English had a right to conquer India, but whether we are to prefer India conquered by the Turk, by the Persian, by the Russian, to India conquered by the Briton."
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