I was gonna ask “Are Mestizos settlers?” but I quickly realized that the answer to this question probably isn’t black and white. If the answer to this isn’t just “Yes” or “No” then what determines whether or not a Mestizo person is a settler?

  • CountryBreakfast
    61·
    2 years ago

    But even in other settler states, people can decolonize their consciousness and resist settler ideology.

    Im afraid this is not true. Decolonization is simply about returning land. Ideology doesn’t make you a settler. There is no “deprograming” that leads to decolonization and there can be no function for such a deprograming, outside of settler justification, without return of land.

    • Muad'DibberA
      8·
      2 years ago

      Totally agreed. There’s so many frustrating “decolonize your mind” takes on twitter and elsewhere, as if having the correct ideas can undo the harms of colonialism.

      It’s so much simpler: return stolen lands to indigenous sovereignty, period.