Jacques,

Thanking people for their irritated responses to your biased and trollish article doesn't make you look good. It makes you look like you're acting in bad faith and hiding your intent by trying to give the impression that you're taking the high road.

Like at some point a few days from now you'll talk about the angry responses you got and then say "But no, I didn't get angry myself. I responded with total civility" as if that earned you points or something.

I think that if you were the kind of person to take the high road you would engage seriously with the full scope of the history and try to empathize with the people who do feel that colonialism was bad, before writing an article like this.

To be honest I'm not sure what you are. Maybe you're trolling? Or maybe you're just a guy who really believes this stuff because he reads the half of history that makes people like him comfortable, and is surrounded by other people who do the same.

Either way, I wish you the best.