Yeah, because the Algerians just famously sat around and waited for the French to leave, and even if they fought, not like they were in any actual danger.
Yeah the French totally left all on their own, and this love of the freedom fighters is comparable to American conservatives.
That thread is a gold crap mine of dunk tank posts.
There's definitely a doubling down effect with some of them. You press them on issues of imperialism, make them realize their privileged position depends on the subjugation and exploitation of the global south, they can only mitigate the cognitive dissonance by either moving left or by owning up to their neo-colonialist mindset, and it turns out a lot of lanyard dorks are perfectly willing to accept the step from implicit to explicit racism.