This.
It’s the past, we can’t go back, we can’t make it right for those who suffered (which BTW included the overwhelming majority of our own population). We need to park the Colonial Guilt: everyone responsible, and everyone who suffered is very very dead. It would be better for both sides to move-on: portraying modern societies as victims just gives indigenous politicians get-out clauses for their own corruption and viciousness. Exhibit A: Mugabe.
Constantly forgotten. There are terrible evils in this world, but (small-‘r’) republicans are desperately tilting at windmills, playing to the shoulder-chip gallery with a queen-sized Dead Cat…
Gonna need some reasonably recent evidence for this statement.