Whites are the only race prohibited from having any pride in their ancestors. Millions of white students across the West are told daily their history is a litany of crimes, while foreign immigrants are told to be proud of their heritages and to believe that without white racism and imperial exploitation their cultures would have flourished beyond anything seen in the West.

They have declared a racial war against whites consisting of four angles: i) denigrate white history, ii) celebrate third world peoples, iii) condemn as racist negative statements about the history of non-whites, and iv) call racist any white who admires the achievements of his ancestors.

These angles are intrinsically connected around the idea that modernization of white nations was possible only through the "underdevelopment" of non-white countries that had long been more advanced. White nations became rich by plundering non-white nations, derailing them from their own "communitarian" path of progression, destroying their identities and "self-respect".

Only years of British self-flagellation have given Tharoor's argument any force. The argument is devoid of empirical support. The British had the easiest time taking India over because it was a totally corrupt, inefficiently-run, caste-divided, backward, starving, inept, irrational empire. The little statistic he offers in the just cited passage is incredibly misleading and not quite accurate. It is based on calculations by multicultural historians, such as Kenneth Pomeranz, who were determined to elevate Asia over Europe as part of creating a multicultural curriculum. They argue that Asia was "richer" than Europe before the industrial revolution began in 1750/1820 and that only the exploitation of non-Europeans enriched Europe.

But all the estimations about Asian superiority have been refuted. First, it should not be surprising that India and China were generating a higher percentage of the world GDP since these two nations represented about one-third and one-quarter of the world's population, respectively. They were producing a lot of rice for hordes of people barely surviving.