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tury colonialist powers brought with them chaos, conflict, fear

and humiliation, rather than well-being, happiness, culture and
civilization. Even if one accepts that the colonialists did provide
some benefits for their colonies, still the harm they wreaked was
many times greater.
Karl Pearson's words cited below, devoid of any humanity
or compassion, summarize these Darwinism-based views:

The struggle means suffering, intense suffering, while it is in
progress; but that struggle and that suffering have been the stages
by which the white man has reached his present stage of develop-
ment, and they account for the fact that he no longer lives in caves

A picture of the Congo under French colonial rule. The native
peoples in the jungle were slaughtered by whites regarding
them as a species of animal.