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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
The thing I've always said about the British Empire is that it was better than the alternatives, that might sound like excusing our past but if people knew what the Spanish, Germans and even Belgiums got up to in their colonies they'd understand the point.
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But that takes you nowhere. There is no "better" way of being invaded - if it wrong, there is no less wrong. This road leads to mitigation and validation.
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Originally Posted by jonbxx
I will just leave the definition of islamophobia here;
You may consider you thoughts or opinions rational but can you also see that they can also be classified as islamophobic at the same time?
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As we're dealing with definitions:
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based on or in accordance with reason or logic.
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I see no reason or logic here, only supposition and conjecture.