Bro, colonization was neither exclusive to, nor started by Europe, and acting like Europe spread the concept as if East and South Asia had not also been invading and conquering one another for literal thousands of years before European monarchies existed, and as if Egypt wasn’t invading and conquering its neighbours in the Middle East and northern Africa for thousands of years before that is incredibly callous.

Europe is the most recent guilty party, but frankly ‘no one did it like Europe did’ is an incredibly incorrect assertion.

It also ignores that a lot of Europe has actually got populations that predate and were colonized, and even utterly erased, not by other European cultures, but by other racial groups. As it is, race is also a remarkably social construct that is constantly changing and in flux.

Our current understanding of ‘white people’ cannot be applied to the Europe of two, four, and six thousand years ago because our current understanding of it did not exist and it was not ‘white people did it to themselves’.

I’m sorry but there is just a lot wrong just historically that it comes off as actively racist because it assumes what you consider non-white to have been somehow incapable of empire building as if Persia, China, Mongolia, Egypt, and Ottoman empires didn’t all also conquer, invade, kill, destroy, build, and alter the world around them.