Mentions (38)
"In honesty it feels like many are simply not ready to accept that peaceful protest is not enough to stop the insidious force of colonialism. Feels bad man"
"Deadass we go in and these people are watching a presentation on "decolonizing bird names" that started with a land acknowledgement."
"she would be like our polyamory is a radical queer decolonial project"
"They have no defense mechanism prepared to deal with it and just seem neurotic. Both sides essentially are arguing from the same "oppressed versus oppressor" mindset"
"imagine Belgium did this for Congo, France for Algeria, Britain for India, Japan for pretty much east and south asia? heck Germany even ignores its genocide in Namibia which was the first genocide of the 20th century"
"Every day i wake up and think wow, how is it that theyve spent 100s of years being afraid to be colonized by americans to just get colonized by indians instead"
"She didn't know that white and black Americans are descended from Europeans and Africans, she thought they were just different indigenous ethnic groups. Had never heard of colonialism in general."
"Israel's approach to Arab hostility is increasingly just "use maximum force because Arabs only understand strength" and it continues to run into a brick wall because people to work like that."
"But anyone with sense likely see me as some vile "colonizer"."
"Someone else told me that I am putting a 'double standard' on Israel, because Arabs also conquered a lot of lands in the past during the Islamic conquests in the Middle Ages, and it's an unfair double standard to now say that Israel isn't allowed to also do that."
"Swifts new album has colonised the charts"
"Wtf does it mean? I wanna call myself pro-Palestine and pro-Indigenous and anti-Imperialism and all that shit but idk what any of the actual goals are. Articulate yourselves mfs, what does "landback" mean, what does "from the river to the sea" mean."
"only so many ways u can travel. tourist, colonialist, artist, drifter, smuggler, missionary, sexpat."
"I'm from Australia where the entire identity of the nation is associated with the atrocity of colonial occuptation and displacement/genocide of indigenous population."
"Combine that with first-hand experience of the evils of capitalism, and you're breeding straight up communists whose sole path to personal fulfilment will lie in trying to organise the fourth group of the non-educated working class."
"There's a large element of settler colonialism and the "domestication of the frontier" wrapped up in these figures obviously"
"it's like a slightly uncomfortable reminder of the country's history, that they are relatively new inhabitants of that land"
"Israel was created by colonial powers. It would have never been created without direct sponsorship from the UK. The colonial powers saw it as killing two birds with one stone: controlling a strategic trade route and a good excuse to get the communists (A lot of Jews were communists) out of Europe."
"a bunch of women dolls coup a displaced people yearning to assert their independence"
"for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents"
"It's the closest thing you've got to being an English colonist getting sent to Africa to die of Malaria."
"people who have been living in Europe and the Americas for hundreds upon hundreds of years who share their cultural and political views totally aren't colonialists despite getting help from the fucking British Empire to push people out of their homes"
"every rebuttal i find online is just some le epic libshit that's like "but this doesn't account for how yt ppl CHOSE to colonize""
"It also reminds me of people who say "decolonization is not a metaphor" just insane politics."
"Do things like change their name from Jose to Moctezuma because they're renouncing all forms of colonialism etc etc."
"the backlash from this is going to constitue a turning point for how the west views its latest colonial project"
"People seem to consider colonialism as a sort of 'ultimate evil' while conquest is almost given a pass or at least seen as more acceptable by most people."
"It feels like a 3.5 hour long crime drama about doomed love and colonialist mass murder being interrupted by an I Think You Should Leave sketch"
"direct experience being fucked over by the settler governments"
"We learn very little about the Americas prior to colonization. But especially North America. Does anyone have any sources where I could learn more about Ancient societies in North America prior to colonization?"
"even though every humorless hater I know was DMing me about British imperialism"
"twitter leftists - anti-Ukraine, anti-Israel (overall just gonna be anti-war and anti establishment position / anti colonization)"
"I don't understand if there's actually a qualitative difference between empires in ancient times that conquered and invaded each other and colonial empires other than the distances involved and things like ships"
"Whole ass nations in Africa were subjected using flags and drawn lines on a map."
"From what I understand much of the cultural resentment between Hutu and Tutsi stemmed from the preferential treatment the Germans and Belgians gave the Tutsi's, who they considered more aesthetically appealing and racially superior. I can definitely see some blue-haired freak having a take on how th"
"Cuisines have ALWAYS been influenced by other cultures, via trade, immigration, or, yes, colonialism and imperialism."
"at a postcolonial university library surrounded by postcolonial literature, which is governed by postcolonial frameworks."
"I would assume they're literally not even aware that they're kind of... colonizing the space way longer than acceptable."