He is talking here about mass slaughter or genocide including slaughter of women and children not 'mere' brutal colonial exploitation or the deaths of male warriors, such as the Zulu, who died rebelling against British authority when they were confronted by soldiers equipped with artillery, rifles and machine guns.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

You really like to move the goalposts. But no, "the millions whipped out by the famines due to the incompetence, racism, and indifference of the British" is neither a "mass extermination", nor does it contradict my claim that most of Africa was taken without large-scale butchering, nor is it unparalleled by earlier empires (for example the Mongols in East Europe again, Rome in newly conquered Dacia). As for completely dehumanising enemies, as a way to differentiate from earlier empires, come on! "Barbarian" wasn't a word invented in the last five centuries, nor "slave".

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}