[catlover76]

They aren't acting "as if" French colonialism never happened.

Are you saying that because someone was born in country X, which committed Y misdeeds ~100 years ago, then that person is not free to draw attention to current misdeeds that are like Y happening now by the hand of others?

That's absurd and ungrounded in any real system of ethics or morality--and also untenable, given that every country/religion/group/whatever has at some point done pretty fucked up shit.