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Today's Colonialist Narrative Is Racist—and Clueless | Opinion
When I was growing up in the United States in the 1970s, we viewed "colonization" as a thing of the past: Europeans (and others) grabbed and plundered faraway territories, spreading technology and expertise and also, inadvertently, diseases. The …