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The "logic" seems to be that when evil racist Whites discovered aboriginal peoples they justified treating them badly because they saw people living like savages rather than their civilized and sophisticated forbears.

If only the evil racist Whites had known how civilized and sophisticated the aborigines' forbears had been they would have treated them as equals.

I call BS on that. Do we treat Italy as an equal to Germany because it once hosted the Roman Empire, or Greece as an equal to France because that's where Plato and Aristotle were born?

Just because some great empire arose from a certain place doesn't mean that the people occupying that area now are worthy of the same level of respect. Certainly as humans they deserve a certain level of respect and dignity for being fellow humans. But if they weren't able to hold onto their technological or sociological gains, then they should be treated accordingly.

When the US dissolves into a post-apocalyptic wasteland with scraps of food being fought over by rival gangs and tribes, we will get just the level of respect we deserve which will be not all that much.