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Love it when I get get smeared by racists - means I'm doing something right! Check this out @juergenzimmerer (also cited), @KimTodzi, @africasacountry - Also the article's title "In defense of German colonialism" tells you everything you need to know. https://www.freiewelt.net/nachricht/verteidigung-des-deutschen-kolonialismus-10084821/
Author is Bruce Gilley, who has already been widely discredited following the publication of this piece https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/the_case_for_colonialism
Gilley writes: "Der kongolesische Aktivist George Kibala Bauer, der lieber in Deutschland als im Kongo wohnt, monierte, das Buch »vermeidet eine kritische Beschäftigung mit dem deutschen Kolonialerbe."
English translation: "The Congolese activist George Kibala Bauer, who prefers to live in Germany rather than in the Congo, complained that the book avoids a critical preoccupation with the German colonial heritage."
1. I moved out of Germany when I was 15 (partly due to the country's inability to overcome its legacy of racism and colonialism) so that is false
2. Super primitive argument - instead of engaging with substance, the author makes false assumptions
2. Super primitive argument - instead of engaging with substance, the author makes false assumptions
My original piece for @africasacountry on the legacy of German colonialism critiques a recent book collection by two German historians that features 0 African historians/voices: https://africasacountry.com/2018/03/what-are-the-politics-of-colonial-memory-in-germany
Somewhere at Portland State University students still get indoctrinated with Bruce Gilley's discredited alternative facts - Scary! But hey...at least those ain't my kids...*sips tea*
