[nhchris]

Then HN is an exception, because I never come across it otherwise. Which is not surprising, given the complete absence of those instances of slavery and imperialism from pop culture.

Sorry, near complete - I'm sure if you really try, you can dig up some movie showing it, and claim it has equal weight to the torrent of movies about US's slavery.

[morelisp]

Really? I see it all the time.

For example, last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35024471

And two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34947944

It actually seems like some people can't shut the fuck up about it in every thread even peripherally touching upon African history.