As do I, and that&#x27;s why I understand the whole &quot;generational white guilt&quot; spiel, cause I hear it often. Even an educated person such as yourself will be quick to jump the gun.<p>I get it, condemning their actions gives you the higher moral ground, you feel like a mensch and somehow detach you from whatever shared responsibility you think you shoulder.<p>IMHO, we can&#x27;t judge old-day actions with current-day ethics. The same way we don&#x27;t generally allow ex post facto law, we should be careful to deliver ex post facto moral judgement. If there&#x27;s a place for moral relativism, it is probably when comparing different times in history.<p>That is not to say I excuse everything that was done during the  colonial times —there are plenty of recollections of senseless atrocities— but there&#x27;s definitely a tendency to look at all this in a reductionistic and emotional way that I don&#x27;t think is fair.