Comments by "N Velsen" (@nvelsen1975) on "What Colonialism Did For Taiwan (& Japan)" video.

Health data seems to contradict your claims. You can't grow taller and longer-living people on regular famines. If there were indeed still food shortages during that time, those must still have been far less severe than what happened before. And to be fair, a life expectancy of under 30 is pretty horrific.
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Tankie...
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Which kinda makes sense, because the maoist faction thanks their existance and rule to their weird on-and-off alliance of convenience with the Japanese invader during the war, while the currently ruling anti-maoists don't asociate themselves with the Cold War era where Japan (basically unreformed since they were bayoneting babies and holding beheading competitions) was the good anti-communist bulwark supported by the US and China was the evil evil commies who had a big beef with both the US and Russia.
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@mrniceguy7168 You're right, but most of the time if you talk about to positives of colonialism, especially European or American colonialism (Philipines), you get lynched by hordes of angry racists. Some of the earlier academic works are downright painful to read; a whole chapter ragging on and on about how evil all white people are, before they go 'But we can conclude this railway the British built, is still the economic backbone of the country'.
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@bobweiram6321 Did anyone say "Gosh, I wish some Fox News-indoctrinated racist hater would show up and begin preaching Chinese inferiority"? No, I don't think anyone did. So why are you here?
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