In Mihi Forbes' report on Rimmer's political influences, we hear Canadian Professor Tom Flanagan eulogising about how much more civilized our colonising ancestors were than the indigenous people they dispossessed;
If they were so civilized, why did they enslave people, and name places in indigenous peoples' lands after slavers?
https://buttondown.com/unsettling/archive/new-zealand-connections-to-caribbean-slavery/
Or if that's a sign of being civilised, why did they stop?