Why isn't the struggle of Europeans to expand their empires

>>2578252
Even the Congo has been greatly exaggerated.

http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/07/24/mythologies-about-leopolds-congo-free-state/

>>2578381

>wow I'm sure this non-academic site which claims that first world populations have genetics predisposed towards "first world values" and which promotes "alternative views" on race and diversity will not try to minimize the deaths in the Belgian co-
o wait

With some of the points raised;
If 1 million or 10 million people died, it would still be ranked as a horrible humanitarian disaster and would still discredit colonialism.
His argument that each Force Publique soldiers had to kill 200 people is fairly nonsense, it isn't like they had to shoot everyone, just disrupting agriculture and commercial life is easily enough to spark famines and epidemics.
The argument over African agency in this case is fairly irrelevant, as those were Force Publique soldiers, it was the existence of European colonialism that enabled them to engage in such actions. Colonialism is not just focusing on the actions of the whites involved but the effects on society as a whole.
The Belgian commission of 1919 and Charles C. Liebrechts, a high official in the Congo Free state, both estimated that half the population died. The "alternative hypothesis" put forward doesn't do anything to counter that, at most the numbers can be altered, but the relative suffering and misery on the populace is unchallenged.

This doesn't do much to counter the Belgian Congo, at most it can be possibly (I'm sure there are other demographic researches into the Belgian Congo population) claimed that the extensiveness scale is off, while intensively it rests the same.

>>2578654
>a non-Academic site that frequently cites academic sources
>a site that promotes what were normal views on race less than a generation ago
>a site that acknowledges that evolution is real and not current liberal neo-Lysenkoism

Oh man, how awful.

>>2578252
>Why isn't the struggle of Europeans to expand their empires into Africa seen as heroic?

because white people are brainwashed into feeling bad about themselves and their history

>>2578252
because the media is run by Jews, and the jews prefer stories about their subjugation of white people. Hence most heroic historical epics tend to be set in WW2

>>2578252
>two-sided and beneficial to both sides.

It was deeply exploitative. When the coloniser built railroads, they bypassed urban centres and served only to transport extracted resources from the interior to the coast. When the coloniser built schools, it was in order to train clerks for the colonial administration. Rather than trying to develop the economies of their colonies, colonisers focused on short-term profits and exporting as much raw material as possible.

>>2579282
All those things benefited Africans without any net loss. Your complaint is that the Europeans didn't give Africans everything for nothing which is the retarded demand of a simpleton.

>>2579286
Being denied the ability to govern themselves was a net loss. Despots have been able to thrive in African states because colonial powers never bothered to develop democratic institutions.

>>2579282
Our culture glorifies badasses not benevolent altruists.

>>2579339
Sounds very unchristian.

>>2579337

Why didn't/haven't Africans developed them themselves?

Fact is, life is better now in Africa than it's ever been. Slavery, war, famine and disease were always there. At least food supplies and disease are much better.

Still, the best thing most Africans could have done for their descendants was volunteer for a North American slave ship. That says all that needs to be said about how low the bar was for any interaction to be a net improvement.

>>2579349
I don't think you'd know.

>>2579374
They now are though.

>>2579396
>beating spear chuckers is badass

>>2579339
Blacks wouldn't even be grateful to get handouts. Earning something creates appreciation for it.

>>2579407
What are you going on about now?