This is a thought that I have been tackling for quite a while now, but in the event of a country or region undergoing decolonialization, how should settler populations, especially multigenerational populations, be handled?

For example in the example of Israel, once the nation is reestablished as a one state Palestine, what would happen to the settler population? Especially those that aren’t living or participating in illegal settlements or exploitation?

This question is complicated farther by multiple generations of people who were born in a location and have no ties to any other country or location. Those people don’t have anywhere to go and can’t be “sent back” to where they came from as they have no ties. For example if a person’s grand parents immigrated decades ago to a country as settlers, and then their children and then grandchildren were born and lived their whole lives in a location, what would you do with those grandchildren? You can’t just throw them back to the country their grandparents were from. This question is made even harder when the generations start spanning back much farther.

Another problem that I am running into is that many solutions including “leftist” ones essentially boil down to ethnic cleaning even if they do not say it outright. Or they completely ignore the question or resort to some fantasy scenario where the settlers magically disappear or all agree to move.

So how should these populations and people be handled?

  • @CountryBreakfast
    7•1 year ago

    I’m so sick of this delusion by settlers that the only proper leftist take is the one that lets them continue to live their lives without consequences and without suffering.

    Its just a take from real Indigenous people, scholars, activists, elders, and leaders. There will obviously be upheaval brought by genuine decolonial action but that isnt the fucking same as sending hundreds of millions of people back to Europe As if its even possible or makes any damn sense.

    Also, fuck the left. I don’t give a goddamn what some leftist is saying. I don’t get my directions from them.

    • @freagle
      -4•1 year ago

      Its just a take from real Indigenous people, scholars, activists, elders, and leaders.

      It’s a highly selective take, one that matches your interests.

      There will obviously be upheaval brought by genuine decolonial action

      Like literally entire cities of millions of people being evacuated from lack of water.

      but that isnt the fucking same as sending hundreds of millions of people back to Europe

      Again, try reasoning about reactionism and what is likely to happen, because it sure as shit isn’t going to be a bunch of white people being like “oh, it’s OK, we’re all proles, I totally understand why you won’t let us destroy that habitat anymore and why my kids can’t grow up in the way I did. Please, teach us your ways”

      As if its even possible or makes any damn sense

      Have you even studied what happened in the USSR?

      Also, fuck the left

      Ummmm…

      I don’t give a goddamn what some leftist is saying.

      Yeah, that’s what I’m saying about you.

      I don’t get my directions from them.

      Wut?