They really don’t want us to connect the settler-colonial struggle with Palestine. They hate it. 🤔
Sometimes Indigenous groups were better armed than colonizers.
“If Israel didn’t exist we would need to create it” - Joe Biden
Course not; because if Amerika’s subjects-of-empire recognize themselves in Palestine, the only way the crackerverse can regain anything close to solidarity with the settler-colonial empire is by killing enough of us to make us shut up.
Nothing but bad faith whinging and settler apologia. They can incant “both sides! nuance!” and put “indigenous” and “colonizer” in quotes all they like, but stolen land is stolen land, and nothing makes genocide acceptable, least of all the passage of time, especially when the genocide is ongoing.
The article, remarkably, contains no arguments, presumably because there is no real defense of apartheid and settler colonialism. It cites and references the theories of anti-imperialist, leftist, and indigenous scholars, but does nothing to refute them, banking instead on the idea that their white settler audience will recoil in horror at the idea of justice. In the absence of any real assertions, all that’s left to do is to point at your opposition and intone how radical, unrealistic, and unacceptable their ideas are while carrying yourself with a smug, uncritical self-satisfaction that demands total intertia. “How dare Hamas fight against their oppressors! Demanding land-back is unfair to all the settlers who already stole the land.”
Bonus point for the anti-Hamas atrocity propaganda.
They know they can’t openly say “landback is just code for white genocide” but they want their WASP audience to think that, hence their article just being empty fearmongering about this “trendy academic theory”
It has been really weird watching the self-proclaimed “unbiased” “centrist” media in the US start to say the sort of things that Fox news was saying a decade ago. Something something overton window.
Archive: https://archive.is/btkG6
“To talk of settler states and oppressed Indigenous people, and claim an umbilical connection between Palestinian struggles and those of Native Americans, is to construct a morality tale stripped of subtleties—a matter not of politics, but of sin.”
It lines up exactly as I expect it to with these settlers. “Refusal to recognize that what they’ve done and been doing to Indigenous and Black bodies for 400 years is only different from what Zionist Occupation is doing to Palestine right now in scale and intensity.” And this cracker Powell’s whinging is little more than more proof-positive that in the settler-colonial West, in the Five-Eyed Empire, you simply aren’t allowed to make the cracker colonial feel uncomfy in any way for what their ancestors did, and what they by proxy uplift every time they write one of these finger-wagging screeds.
It’s Kluxism, the self apologizing.
A trendy academic theory
The author btw
Thread from a Diné comrade: https://twitter.com/majerle_lister/status/1743758429184049393?t=0Qu6VI20jfsrThfLOCx1kA&s=19
CraKKKers with Main Character Syndrome explain things to me.
Powell’s wife, Evelyn, served two months as a midwife for Navajo Health Services. Michael spent the time wandering the reservation and finding comfort “in this achingly beautiful land and its people.”
mf literally wrote the book on dry crevices
Nearly all magazines are liberal magazines, but The Vertlartnic is so starkly a propaganda outlet for liberal apologia.
tier articleLiberal authors are just nazis that aren’t open fascists because they think its ‘bad optics’
The other interpretation is that they’re fascists who found out what Julius Evola thought of white Americans (“culturally N*gro”) as opposed to Native Americans (noble “children of the Sun” whose influence would have greatly elevated US society).
Let me guess: Aztecs, Apache, sacrificial ceremonies, and the existence of empires like the Inca are brought up?
Uh oh…a spectre is haunting. They wouldn’t be writing shit like this if they weren’t afraid of the dots being connected
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