Probably because it’s a bit misleading as your link shows. GDP per capita was low everywhere, barely above subsistence. Their % dropped when others started growing rapidly.

Nope, India/China's GDP dropped upon invasion and decimation of trade routes by the Western countries with the GDP gain.

People underestimate how key the US was to the opium trade in China. The US was a bigger trader than the UK/Germany/France combined at one point.

The data linked doesn’t indicate that was the primary reason, there is a small dip in GDP per capita (-10%?) for India/China but it was basically flat.

Looks like before industrialization the richest countries were only moderately better off. Once it began to take off that gap became enormous.

Yes the data linked is limited in scope.

I’ve certainly noticed an abundance of vitriol against anyone who mentions the misdeeds of the British Empire, of which there are many. There are also a bunch of Empire apologists that will pop up every now and then.

Are there many people like that ?

PS : direct link to the talk in the (spam filled) website

https://youtu.be/_S955fkSZd8

While the parent comment is heated and not factually incorrect, the reason for the down-votes has to do with the willful ignorance of the west towards some of the worst atrocities committed by places from where it derives its value systems from.

The Nazis were the bad guys and they are gone. The Soviets and USSR were the baddies after, and they are gone.

The west and esp. US+UK pride themselves in never having been that evil. In the mean time, the EIC committed atrocities on a scale rivaling those exact boogeymen of the West.

Accepting the crimes of the EIC, would have them facing some of the worst Hypocrisy of their society, and that isn't the most fun thing.