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Israeli settlers steal Palestinian farmers’ land in occupied West Bank (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Modelled after the settler colonial tactics of the Americans, British, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Boer, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, Chinese, Germans etc etc

Settler colonialism is an old evil, we saw it do immense damage in the 18th and 19th centuries. Many of us live with its legacy and are still picking up the pieces.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's actually not how modern China gained territory. The settlements in Xinjiang were explicitly designed to not step on the traditional Uyghur economic/cultural center of Kashgar. Instead, settlement surrounded Urumqi, a place that used to be a backwater of backwaters (the name meaning "beautiful pasture"). Even today, Kashgar and it's surrounding areas are majority Uyghur (by far), while Urumqi is majority Han.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@zerfuffle cherry picking "backwaters" to settle isn't the same as not colonizing at all, nevertheless I wasn't talking about Xinjiang in particular.

Here is a good example of classic settler colonialism by the Chinese.