# Is this the beginning of the end?

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**Created:** [July 22, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end/947060 "2021-07-22T15:36:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end/947060/281 "2021-07-29T13:06:09Z")

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Oh God, I found it:

> [@un-PC beliefs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-pc-beliefs/555823/17):
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> As for the OP, I’ve said before that I think many things were better back in the days of the British Empire. Sadly provided you weren’t ethnic, of course.
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> To expand on that a bit: There are quite a few countries out there that just can’t seem to get their shit together and are now actually _worse_ off than they were at independence. The British Empire wasn’t all Tea, Cricket, & Kittens but I still think the basic idea- an industrialised, stable, civilised country “taking over the affairs” of a struggling one has merit.

My grandparents lived under British rule, and let me tell you, it fucking sucked. And amazingly, it sucked for them SIGNIFICANTLY LESS than it did for the vast, vast majority of British subjects, who were browner than they were.

That’s got to be the most ignorant White-Man’s-Burden bullshit I’ve ever read. And he seems to know it, too, but brushes it off with: “Sadly provided you weren’t ethnic, of course.”

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