Global Western colonialism is so infused in media that this DealBook article frames Greenland as a “deal” to “approach.” Capitalism involves assessing and quantifying land while removing the people- Inuit are mentioned nowhere in these media articles. 1/ - ThreadSky

hollyguise.bsky.social • 48 days ago

Global Western colonialism is so infused in media that this DealBook article frames Greenland as a “deal” to “approach.” Capitalism involves assessing and quantifying land while removing the people- Inuit are mentioned nowhere in these media articles. 1/

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melancholyjaques.bsky.social•48 days ago

I don't know if it's global Western colonialism as much as it's the NYT policy of always framing the story the way Trump wants them to frame the story.

nigelad.bsky.social•45 days ago

I can't find this article. Is it behind a pay wall? Did you read it? Can you summarize?

jckspk.bsky.social•48 days ago

Agree. Language matters a lot and the ‘deal’ language conceals coercion and thus theft, while revealing ignorance and inhumanity.

reel-indig-pod.bsky.social•48 days ago

My coworkers had no idea there were Indigenous people in Greenland. 💔

hollyguise.bsky.social•48 days ago

The land is framed as brokered between Western empires. That’s what empires, capitalism, and imperialism do.

hollyguise.bsky.social•48 days ago

I’m going to be a little non-media- only a social media- voice from an Alaskan Inupiaq perspective who calls out the media and these Western nations for treating the land like a commodity.

hollyguise.bsky.social•48 days ago

The erasure of Inuit voices from these political/diplomatic discussions as well as the media is LOUD.

alarcos.bsky.social•48 days ago

As far as I can tell, the Greenlandic PM hasn't been erased ... except perhaps in the US media? But I'd be happy to hear many more greenlandic voices being platformed on this (and any other) topic.
https://www.politico.eu/article/greenland-prime-minister-mute-b-egede-donald-trump-denmark/

alarcos.bsky.social•48 days ago

And this here isn't Franco-German imperialism but EU solidarity!
https://search.app/U8FZDLxvBgojK6GP6

betsy-cazden.bsky.social•48 days ago

Do they include the cost of going to war against the rest of NATO (which includes several nuclear-armed nations), destroying the post-WWII world order, and subduing a highly resistant population? Or nah, just pay the natives $24 in plastic trinkets and call it done?

hollyguise.bsky.social•48 days ago

I’m going to generalize here and say most treaties with Native nations are done by death, removal, eradication of food and water sources, and like bayonet constitutions.

betsy-cazden.bsky.social•48 days ago

Yup, certainly true of the ones I'm familiar with.

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