<i>Please [don&#x27;t] disagree with my point that he really didn&#x27;t say take India back to British colonialism.</i><p>He didn&#x27;t literally &quot;say&quot; that, but it&#x27;s (nearly) irrelevant to point that out.  The bigger point is that what he indisputably <i>did</i> say was, by itself, utterly idiotic and offensive.