Tag: Canada
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Peter Shawn Taylor: Colonialism contained ‘good things as well as bad.’ Why can’t we just accept that?
3 May 2023. By Peter Shawn Taylor for the National Post. Nigel Biggar’s new moral report card on the British Empire argues it’s wrong to dwell on its failures without recognizing its successes. Shortly before he died in 2013, Chinua Achebe — often considered Africa’s greatest novelist — was asked if his view of colonialism…
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National Post: Colonialism isn’t as bad as everyone thinks
1 May 2023. ‘Canada isn’t the only place where left-wing activists are blackening the names of colonial-era figures like John A. Macdonald and Henry Dundas for not living up to modern, ultra-progressive ideals. When British ethicist Nigel Biggar found himself defending 19th-century mining magnate Cecil Rhodes against exaggerated claims of racism from Oxford University students,…