The case for colonialism: For the last 100 years, Western colonialism has had a bad name. It is high time to question this orthodoxy. Western colonialism was, as a general rule, both objectively beneficial and subjectively legitimate in most of the places where it was found... User Kiss_Me_Im_A_Liberal, in the authoritarian orangutarian whataboutist voldemort 100 billion subreddit, 12 Sep 2017
Article in Third World Quarterly argues that "Western colonialism was, as a general rule, both objectively beneficial and subjectively legitimate in most of the places where it was found, using realistic measures of those concepts." User smurfyjenkins, in the International Relations subreddit, 12 Sep 2017