You’re venturing really damned close to a “might makes right” argument simply because the people benefitting from an atrocity don’t have qualms about the means of their enrichment does not make the acts any less atrocious. You don’t get to say Spanish slavers in South America weren’t abhorrent and a point of shame cause slavery, rape, and pillaging were all the rage in 17th century Europe, innit?They had an opposition, ideaological and individual. Who part for complete outsiders thought badly of colonialism in 1715?
The idea that Australians celebrate the day ships landed and the conquest and genocide began is as equally cringey as fuck as Americans celebrating the propaganda bullshit that is thanksgiving.
I’m sorry, but you don’t get to say imperial Britain was any less a force of evil than the Nazis because their atrocities weren’t perpetrated on the people of Europe. To do so relies on inherent racism. And the same applies to modern day American imperialism and the Israeli settlement movement. It’s not ok to fuck off entire groups of people just because they’re different.