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Settler colonialism is a real thing that happened in history with devastating consequences for indigenous peoples around the globe.
Still very much happening but it's only really being called out in Western societies. Meanwhile indigenous Tibetans are having their culture erased by Han Chinese, etc...
I got the "pshaw what about tibet" response when I mentioned the ansarallah movement's statement of solidarity with all settler-colonized people on the planet
they got mad when i asked them what they thought "settler-colonialism" meant
they ended the conversation in anger when I brought up the slavery and torture that the Chinese stopped in Tibet
thats the kinda person who will look you dead in the eye and say "Colonialism can be good, look how bad the Aztecs were" 
I was trying to read an article on decolonization from some Ivy league school and on like the second page there was a footnote about how not just the west does colonization but cHiNa tOo! I couldn't kee reading it after that lol
Still very much happening but it's only really being called out in Western societies
"white people are the superior master aryan race because they're so much more enlightened and progressive than the savage inferior untermenschen"
White supremacy is the black hole at the center of liberal thought: not directly observable, but made apparent by how all of their other ideas orbit around it.
This is a great line, I'm totally going to steal it
By all means!
Libs are so shocked by how china can develop its own chips or russia can beat nato in ukraine. They genuinely believe the west to be masters of the universe and nothing can be done without them willing it so. Their hubris will hit them hard as their precious rules based order declines.
It [the name Turtle Island] sounds so cute. It makes me want to live here even more, if 130 years of relative safety for my family weren't a good enough reason.
How fucking absolutely ghoulish do you have to be to say some shit like this. You live in relative wealth and safety BECAUSE your ancestors and the rest of the colonial establishment committed atrocities against the indigenous peoples of America, stole their land, and continue to erase them even as they live today.
Imagine knowing that today tribal land is some of the most disadvantaged areas of this country, with poor access to healthcare, education, aid, etc. and the absolute extreme hardship their ancestors went through and then saying this shit being a privileged cracker ass mf. Absolute genocidal maniacs.
PPI has been around since 1989 and views itself as Bill Clinton's "idea mill" aka think tank. Why I call them a fossil fuel think tank is detailed here. They oppose climate action, defend fracking, and receive donations from Exxon Mobil.
it's safe to say that their upvotes are farmed, and their organic support is mostly bourgeois economics and political science majors and interns who hope to work for PPI or a similar think tank one day. It's basically a Neera Tanden farm.
The creator of r/neoliberal, Colin Mortimer, is the Director of the Center for New Liberalism at PPI, which seeks to "develop a salient identity around the center-left values that have increasingly come under fire in this age of populism."
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Reminder that [r/neoliberal was created by and is astroturfed by a fossil fuel think tank called the Progressive Policy Institute, as part of their "Neoliberal Project"](https://archive.is/dNo5d#selection-533.230-533.424)
PPI has been around since 1989 and views itself as Bill Clinton's "idea mill" aka think tank. [Why I call them a fossil fuel think tank is detailed here.](https://archive.is/4Voil#selection-595.0-597.270) They oppose climate action, defend fracking, and receive donations from Exxon Mobil.
it's safe to say that their upvotes are farmed, and their organic support is mostly bourgeois economics and political science majors and interns who hope to work for PPI or a similar think tank one day. It's basically a Neera Tanden farm.
The creator of r/neoliberal, [Colin Mortimer](https://twitter.com/Colinmort), is the [Director of the Center for New Liberalism at PPI](https://archive.is/Jq2sO), which seeks to "develop a salient identity around the center-left values that have increasingly come under fire in this age of populism."
Neera Tanden farm
Salt the earth
This should be a copypasta/canned bot response everytime the word "neoliberal" is used. Or at least when "r/neoliberal" is used.
Not enough people know that place is astroturfed to hell - to an even greater extent than most subreddits
: Indigeneity is itself a Complex(TM) topic that needs to be defined first before going anywhere.
Edit: from that article:
A left-wing kibbutznik who lives a few miles from Gaza and drives sick Palestinians to Israeli hospitals is no less a colonialist than a right-wing theocratic settler
Ah fuck I didn't even think about the left wing kibbutznik
The article is a comedy goldmine
In invocations of settler colonialism, Berkowitz hears progressives giving up on effecting change through political means.
Decolonization isn't political, apparently
Apparently "terrorists" is more accurate and descriptive of ebil hamas than "settler colonialism" is of the neo europes.
drives sick Palestinians to Israeli hospitals
white man's burden but its cringe DSA radlibs
settling and ethnically cleansing palestine, leftistly
love when colonizers catch a whiff of solidarity between colonized peoples and start whining about how they're all meant to be separate nations with their own mutually unintelligible culture that can be easily fragmented and subsumed by the empire.
Yeah wtf? Why take the creation story for one culture and apply it across a diverse array of cultures and peoples? Lmao
Cope and seethe
also i know this is just a trope of reactionary writing, but postcolonial theory is decades old, why are they all acting like it's something that only sprung up recently?
Someone using "settler colonialism", "turtle island", etc etc is akin to hearing a Republican bring up Hunter Biden in that I know I can simpy discount everything they say about everything.
It's also more aggravating than the Republican version -- the MAGA vibe of "I'm just a simple man who believes what I see" is way more tolerable than "My niche hyper-privileged worldview represents the pinnacle of human intellect".
Hm. I wonder why one of those is more tolerable to you than the other. What a mystery. Also complaining about intellectual smugness is rich coming from the official technocracy fandom subreddit.
hyper-privileged
[cough] excuse me? colonized peoples are hyper-privileged now I guess
but postcolonial theory is decades old, why are they all acting like it's something that only sprung up recently?
because now people are applying it in ways that pose a very immediate and significant threat to western interests in the middle east, and discourse about how palestinians are somehow the colonizers didn't stick, so the best move for maintaining western hegemony is to denounce it. up until now, ignoring it or paying small inconsequential lip service towards it was the better move (because jumping the gun on that would end up being received a lot like republican fearmongering about CRT), but that only remains the case as long as the material impact of it can be contained.
I can't believe the white man viciously took our land, destroyed our culture, and replaced it with reddit
White people really think liberation is a massive "Draw 4 Reverse" Uno card. Nothing but perpetual fear that "they'll do to us what we did to them" like that doesn't immediately betray the reality of settler-colonialism.
This is something every pan-racial (for lack of a better term) movement will run into. Every movement needs its foundational myths (in the folkloric sense, not the "stories that are false" sense) and common beliefs to function. When you're trying to unite disparate peoples whose main reason for joining together is to increase political/bargaining power, you're going to have to either choose to prioritize certain narratives over others or create new narratives whole cloth.
The crackers have to label this as a "pan-racial" thing because they don't want to admit that "whiteness" is a construct and they have no culture.
White people have a culture. Think 'petri dish'
As Chris Hannah once sung, "Just what exactly are the great historical accomplishments of your race that make you proud to be white? Capitalism? Slavery? Genocide? Sit-coms? This is your fucking white-history, my friend. So why don't we start making a history worth being proud of and start fighting the real fucking enemy?".
ctrl+f "apartheid" NOT FOUND, I wonder why?
Recently, I stood on a windswept street corner in Brooklyn
Finance imperialist stepping over homeless people to write for the PMC soy fascist periodical
Just by way of concentrating the mind, let’s remember the specific nature of the violent resistance practiced by Hamas,
"nooo you ignorant workers have to be brainwashed by our demonic ideology" 
director of the Hannah Arendt Center
the PMC anti-communist journo who infamously was racist against the eastern Jewish judge who presided over the holocaust. Its so telling that woke PMC today celebrate a disgusting soulless monster like that! :amber:
Amber.
In invocations of settler colonialism, Berkowitz hears progressives giving up on effecting change through political means. “The left has replaced its faith in proletarian subjects and utopian solutions with a view of the Indigenous as innocent and oppressed. It’s an ethics rather than a politics.”
What the fuck does this even mean?
It means the only valid form of politics is 
They're doing what what's called class reductionism but doing it for real instead of the imagined thing liberals think we do
I wonder what these liberals mean by "the left" in this context?
yea ima be honest leftists need to stop talking like that yesterday
tbh it sounds more like a liberal thing, or at least someone who hasn't given up on the USgov
it has the same vibes as "institutional racism" where you constantly repeat the passive-voiced option so it sounds less bad and alarming (don't @ me, instutions are just full of racist crackers and their lapdogs, 99% of the time "institutional" racism is literally just normal-ass racism)
Kind of interesting how “turtle island” became the defacto name for North America among some indigenous peoples and activists. Only a few tribes (out of literally 1,000s), the Lenape and Iroquois of the eastern woodlands on North America referred to it roughly as such with translations from the 16th and 17th centuries it’s difficult to know exactly what the context of this story was but it’s become so popular in some circles. If you had a Time Machine and were transported back to pre contact Pacific Northwest, nobody would know about Turtle Island. It’s literally putting indigenous peoples into a monolith.
I am unfamiliar with this topic, can someone explain to me what this person got wrong?
I don't see how indigenous movements using a name that was originally used by only few peoples puts the whole of indigenous peoples in a monolith.
They're also acting like indigenous people have to treat their culture as undead. Existing, but not changing. The Navajo may have not used the term 'Turtle Island' before colonization, but it doesn't mean Navajo people post-colonisation can't adopt the word as part of a greater pan-indigenous movement of solidarity against the horrors of colonisation.
This reply was actually pretty good:
This is something every pan-racial (for lack of a better term) movement will run into. Every movement needs its foundational myths (in the folkloric sense, not the "stories that are false" sense) and common beliefs to function. When you're trying to unite disparate peoples whose main reason for joining together is to increase political/bargaining power, you're going to have to either choose to prioritize certain narratives over others or create new narratives whole cloth. Since legitimacy tends to come from either time or power and these movements lack power, most groups are going to pick the first option (in reality, a mix between the two options). Due to the relative prominence of the Eastern Woodlands in both American/Canadian history and members of tribes from that region in the creation of pan-Indianism, narratives from those tribes are going to be prioritized. And other people are going to go along with it, because joining with the movement is more beneficial than fighting it, especially for something as minor as this.
Fascinating stuff, thanks!
Even if they are right (and likewise I’m too ignorant on this to know) this comes across as concern trolling given the context. If they were making this criticism to the activists as another activist it could be a completely reasonable criticism but theyre making the comment in an r/neoliberal thread where theyre trying to make themselves feel better about being the beneficiaries of colonialism.
Oh yeah, it's 100% concern trolling, but it's useful to understand why it's wrong.
What even are neo liberals? Lol. I mean, I know the definition but who are these people? Just rightists who have taken LSD before?
They’re just fascists who think looking at genocide is icky but otherwise wouldn’t stop it.
A species of aligned White supremacists that use graphs and economic vocabulary to legitimize their claim to power. e g: Techbros, lanyard professionals, econ, polisci, and business school majors.
I want to unread that thread
Wow 20,000 words of white cope
Shit isn’t hard indigenous is easy to define, you know it when you see it, and it ain’t you 
Oh this shit pisses me right the fuck off. These lily-white nerds bent over a keyboard arguing over a group of people that their proposed policies hurt the most. Hope they enjoy the climate change that's brought upon the world despite indigenous groups predicting it for centuries.
stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin