just had a guy go full debate nerd in favor of British colonialism, so to reiterate:
Decolonization does not require sending settlers back to their country of origin & implying it does feeds into settler myths about decolonization. it requires the upending of the settler-colonial state structure.
Decolonization does not require sending settlers back to their country of origin & implying it does feeds into settler myths about decolonization. it requires the upending of the settler-colonial state structure.
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Actual, real lives are not supposed to be chips in some salon ego-driven words game
It becomes even worse when you notice the inconveniences they themselves perceive as grave injustices
systemic privilege can cause people to become alienated from others, shifting the survival of marginalized people into an abstract concept instead of reality.
'No Bob, playing solitaire at the office does not make you the superior hire'
-The French, to this day.
It's extremely messed up.
"so you want a genocide? you freak. you genocidal freak"
also wtf 😅
People feel this uncritically and believe it to be common sense, and it makes landback a tough sell
Decolonizing your mind is shedding the superstructure of thought that has infected your ability to see things:
That doesn’t mean sending people away; it means breaking down the mental processes that causes you to other.
Realizing your wrong may shatter your paradigm, but thats good.
I need to remember to reskeet this every week or so
like yeah dude, im not surprised the colonizers want to keep political control 🙄
hoping he uses this as a chance to self-crit & not be such an enlightened centrist.