Aileen has some demons to work through, and one of them is people who think that colonialism has a bad rep and should make a comeback like it’s fucking mom jeans in the late 2010s-early 2020s. Oh, and like colonialism went away, which it never did.

There are no digressions this time. It is just pure, directed pettiness.

Sources

Giley's Article: https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/the_case_for_colonialism

Books   

• Laurence Bergreen: Columbus: The Four Voyages

• Patrice Lumumba: Congo, My Country, (https://archive.org/details/congomycountry0000lumu)
• Melanie Manion, Corruption by Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong

Websites

• https://eastafricaschoolserver.org/content/_public/Local%20Topics/East%20Africa/British%20colonialism%20in%20East-Africa%20during%20nineteenth%20century.pdf
• https://journals.openedition.org/eastafrica/586
• https://www.redalyc.org/journal/152/15264516009/html/ 
• https://www.choicehacking.com/2022/01/04/what-is-the-cobra-effect/#tve-jump-17fac229951
• https://www.cato.org/commentary/case-against-case-colonialism
• https://www.vox.com/2014/10/13/6957875/christopher-columbus-murderer-tyrant-scoundrel 
• https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1083&context=tdr
• https://web.pdx.edu/~gilleyb/A%20Response%20to%20My%20Critics_AQSpring2022.pdf 
• https://www.ewmagazine.nl/nederland/achtergrond/2018/02/the-good-side-of-colonialism-interview-bruce-gilley-597263/
• https://fortune.com/europe/2022/09/13/queen-death-hong-kong-mourning-british-colonial-rule/