> I hesitate to say the slaughter of indigenous would not have happened, frankly the British are simply better at hiding their iniquity.

The British indigenous headcount is likely only surpassed by Ghengis Khan, and I am not at all convinced they really went out of their way to hide anything. At the time, nobody cared about the folks they slaughtered and enslaved, and many Western cultures _still_ don’t care about them. They are the people that do the mining, make your sneakers, and develop your shitty games. They are the tech support people that are doing the needful, they are the folks living in the lands where we dump our trash - we in the West have _never_ cared for them, why start now?

The British didn’t need to _hide_ anything, they know that if they don’t bring it up, nobody else in polite society will either.