A US-based website with more than a million user is demanding an apology from the authoritative magazine that published it.

In the publication Third World Quarterly, Bruce Gilley of Portland State University says for the last 100 years, Western colonialism has had a bad name.

It is high time to question this orthodoxy.

He says Western colonialism was, as a general rule, both objectively beneficial and subjectively legitimate in most of the places where it was found. The countries that embraced their colonial inheritance, by and large, did better than those that spurned it.

change.org  says Gilley’s attempt at satire has failed.

It insists the publication retract and apologize for the printing what it calls an appalling article.

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