As opposed to the West’s genocide of millions upon millions of natives across their colonial projects? How about the millions killed as a result (directly or indirectly) of wars of aggression in the global south? Or perhaps the ongoing & unrelenting support by the West of genocide in Gaza?

Or are we not allowed to compare these things because of who the perpetrators are?

And, in the case of colonial crimes, don’t tell me to “let bygones be bygones” until apologies have been made and reparations disbursed.

In the meantime, the West is complicit and can instead direct their holier than thou attitude and patronizing lectures inwards.