<i>Indians are actually being nationalists for telling poor little Mark to go fuck himself and his idea of a cheaply done monopoly.</i><p>... which is <i>still</i> different from being in favor of or somehow defending colonialism (leaving aside the notion that he must think of them as &quot;filthy&quot; Indians).<p>We can criticize Andreessen for any among a giant pile of good reasons for doing so, while understanding that in this instance he was talking about something like anti-Westernism and should have used something like that phrase instead of the one he did.<p>100% of your dislike for him remains and is well-founded without undermining your argument with the belief that he really thinks those &quot;filthy Indians&quot; ought never to have escaped colonial rule.<p>(I have zero motivation to defend Andreessen on anything he&#x27;s actually said or done -- I just object to the misinterpretation and mischaracterization going on here because it destroys valuable conversation and debate.)