It's great to see someone [Roger Kimball] standing up for colonialism, especially British colonialism. I agree wholeheartedly with this observation, for example:

Had Britain had the courage to face down Gandhi and his rabble a few years longer, the tragedy that was the partititon of India might have been avoided.

I do have one word of advice for Roger: Stay off the college lecture circuit. I don't think they're ready for this much diversity!

He is right that Roger Kimball, who is kept by the Bureau of Weights and Measures as the standard wanker unit (SWU) from which all other hyper-elitist wankers are judged by, probably isn't welcome at any self-respecting university. Here's more of what Arserocket quoted, a cute response from not-so-special-K to one of the unenlightened savages who doesn't like him all that much:

As for colonialism, this third-world feminist of color should get down on her knees and thank Siva that her country was the beneficiary of British colonialism. Without it, she would never have heard of feminism or even of the third world, since the very concept depends upon the freedom, education, and language that the West brought to savages countries in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Europe once sought to bring enlightenment—literacy, civil society, modern technology—to benighted parts of the world. It did so in the name of progress and civilization.

-Ben | Comments
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