#say no to settler colonialism

[soxiyy]

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[recreationaldivorce]

The settler's work is to make even dreams of liberty impossible for the native. The native's work is to imagine all possible methods for destroying the settler.

- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (trans. Constance Farrington)

[violentdevotion]

still very funny to me. no offence but everyone I know who's ever met a white south african has hated the white south african. you guys just suck immensely

[3liza]

a looooooooooot of American leftist perspective on what is good or possible with basic policy about land use, recycling, public transit etc is so fucked up purely because we are completely unaware that much of Europe has been doing stuff we consider pie in the sky laughable dreamerism (like effectively and safely going home from shift work or from a nightclub at 3am on the subway, or recycling anything instead of strip mining a mountain every time we need to bottle beer, or turning vacant office buildings into apartments, etc) for decades or centuries.

you do not find out about it unless you're fortunate enough to visit and stay long enough to actually interact with the infrastructure, not just as a tourist, because likewise the Europeans just assume we can take buses everywhere or get 25¢ for a beer bottle and simply choose to live in suffering and profligacy out of simple American degenerate preference for driving cars and smashing bottles until an American tells them exactly how bad everything is here, which they can hardly believe

[greencarnation]

scalding hot take here but maybe bombing and massacring more civilians isn't going to get rid of the resistant fighters radicalised by watching civilians and loved ones be bombed and massacred

[ceasarslegion]

Just saw an accelerationist call Obama a settler colonist for retiring in Hawaii. Isn't he like, FROM Hawaii? 😭

[askinnyblackman]

i just saw that video of the child in gaza with his head blown off and i just want to say to everyone preaching “lesser evil” and “harm reduction” to say: eat my ass

you have been voting for the lesser evil for so long that it seems you have either forgotten or become desensitized to the fact that you chose evil

the problems you claim to condemn cannot be solved by the institutions that are causing them, and you know this

[millionsofbooks]

something about the tiktok ban that i haven't really seen people here talking about is the experience of tiktok users not from the usa, which was, as far as i can tell, on the whole, very positive. it was actually really nice to, for a short period of time, be on a major social media network and able to interact with people across the world without usamericans constantly inserting themselves into every conversation.

usamericans kind of take over people's fyp regardless of where you're from. this is partly to do with the fact that the creators fund is only available to usamericans so most of the shitty content farms are from the us. then there's also the cultural aspect of the fact that being a citizen of the most powerful empire in the world is a significant privilege, and also a privilege that 99% of usamericans are seemingly unable to acknowledge, plus the us centrism and exceptionalism, plus the constant need to cast themselves as the underdog, and, well. it's annoying.

so, like. everything of what i've seen (which is not to say that other opinions don't exist, just that i haven't seen them) is that it was really nice when the usamericans were gone, and it kind of sucks that they're back.

[cbs-scorpion-coffee-shop]

1000 years of history in one image

End Colonialism.

[soxiyy]

“ALL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DESERVE SELF DETERMINATION IN THEIR HOMELANDS!!!”

My brother in Christ you can’t even acknowledge Israel’s right to exist and the thought that Jews are native.

P.S. the thought that only one group can be indigenous to a piece of land IS colonial thinking. Both Israelis and Palestinians are indigenous to the land, deal with it.

[botaniqueer]

I am thinking about how our country forces native ethnic groups onto a registry in order for them to even have shallow access to their cultural practices.

Also thinking about how it’s really messed up that said country (the country that killed them in order to be born) is what determines which of tribes are recognized. This means they can never have full sovereignty and are always depended on their colonizer.

For Yom Kippur I’m going to reconsecrate myself to serving colonized people worldwide. (Both because I am an American settler myself and live at their expense, and because I’m from a colonized background as a Filipino and should have solidarity from that alone.)

[wereoz]

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Mohammed Alaloul, a cameraman at Anadolu Agency who lost so much family. Please watch this and find his posts sharing about his family on Instagram to remember them.

[illegitimatetenenbaum]

I’m getting reported to whoever one reports things at a university because I made a “death threat” to another student when I told him “Israelis aren’t settlers. Die mad about it.” He and the professor both take the stance that I told him to go die. And listen, I agree that that wasn’t the best turn of phrase and I should have worded myself differently-you’ll get no argument from me there-but are you freaking kidding me?

[sweenstar-reblogs]

sry to be emo on main but i think watching the world tacitly enable genocide and settler colonialism (both violent and ‘non violent’ forms) despite having so much hard proof that it’s objectively Bad has . kind of ruined me

[saying-odd-shit]

believing in protecting endangered animals also means being anti colonization by the way. colonialism and protecting native ecosystems do not mesh. any studying ecologist could give at least five examples off the top of their head but also it shouldnt surprise you that people without connection to a land will raze it

[botaniqueer]

One of my hot-ish takes (more like 40°C) is that unless they intend on criticizing their politicians in full and without letting attachments get in the way, people are directly complicit in the abuses their candidates commit.

I don't need to say much on Republican voters because they're more honest about liking genocide and human rights atrocities and everyone knows they're ghouls; it's like pointing out water is wet, but this applies to everyone else too. Biden's genocides are his voters' genocides too. Obama's bombings have implicit support if that person voted for him and has said nothing. White Germans who said nothing and pretended everything was okay because things weren't terrible for them personally are complicit in the Holocaust.

Also as always, in case vote blue folks decided to bring it up, I voted for these people too, while knowing and being honest as to what they were; but I don't let that get in the way of calling them out. US presidents again are a white supremacist institution so even if someone farther left got in (as I would prefer), I would still be ethically bound to harshly criticize them. I expect other settlers to be able to do the same.

Otherwise I'm just another settler exploiting stolen land and only wanting to to help myself, and silence folks I've left behind for speaking out and bringing out my discomfort.