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Daily reminder that ALL atrocities are bad. Yes, even of your favorite polity
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Actually, quite the opposite is true for colonialism. Colonizers often chose a "favourite" group of local people and gave them a tiny sliver of power on the condition, that they help oppress everyone else. I'm not judging that btw.
Right but if you follow that power dynamic up the chain the cause would still be the group that picked the " favorite".
This doesn't resolve the "favorite" group from their role, but rather distributes blame to all involved
Moreover, the intentional pitting of Group A against Group B in colonialism is specifically to make it so that Groups A and B never realize that they could overtake their colonizers by cooperating.