text: Victimitis: It's not so much racism as racialism, which in the latter case is the tendency to reduce complex issues to matters of race and racial privilege. There are an awful lot of white people in the U.S., and in Canada for that matter, who don't meet any reasonable definition of privilege. As for the stain of colonialism, the author takes liberties with history, thus rendering her argument overblown. European colonial powers didn't send invading armies into China and India. They sent naval ships, which established outposts, and they co-opted local governance structures in order to insinuate (and eventually impose) mercantile regimes. Actual military power and force was later used to sustain British suzerainty in India when the locals started to rebel against the British-imposed system but by that point the invaders had long been inside the gate, so to speak. It would help the author's argument were she to be a little more objective in her approach.