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@lemmy.worldColonialism is the exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.
Oh, so what is and isn't colonialism is dictated by which side of a glorified fence the government-funded murderers, torturers and rapists are born on?
Don't you liberals have anything substantial to hide behind?
they wanted to exterminate and replace them. Not colonialism.
So Native Americans weren't victims of colonialism, then?
It doesn't take a lot for you to show your true colors, does it?
Germany famously didn’t manifest any colonial holdings
Oh, so apart from the colonialist slaughter inside the Soviet Union that Germany didn't do (according to you), they also didn't perpetrate bog-standard colonialist genocide against the Herero and Nama in Namibia, eh?
What is next, apologist? The Holocaust was a hoax, perhaps?
A week after the government lifted mask mandates here in South Africa the lady who usually helped me at the local pharmacy was dead. She was immunocompromised, and it took just a week of people huffing their breath on her for her to catch COVID and die. Just like that.
I wear my mask religiously whenever I walk into any building. No one is getting COVID because of my criminal negligence.
But it's not just that. I also wear my mask because I don't believe people should be allowed to simply forget COVID and all the shitfuckery about our society that it exposed.
Sorry, I know this rant doesn't help you in any way.
Don't know why you're getting downvoted for this.
I can only guess that the liberals on here are thoroughly invested in treating fascism and colonialism as some kind of "aberration," unfortunate oopsies, in their otherwise pristine concept of the liberal nation state.
Fascism is against your own people, colonialism is against other peoples.
That is literally the dumbest thing I have ever heard said in regards to this subject.
You mean the history books that will never, ever classify the Nazi slaughter in eastern Europe as colonialist, despite the fact that colonialist justification doesn't get more blatantly colonialist than "lebensraum"?
Or do you mean the history books that completely ignore the perfectly blatant fact that the wellsprings of fascism are all "western" (ie, white) countries that have deep histories of colonialist slaughter and exploitation?
Are those the history books you are referring to?
Because Arab lives have no value in
Israeliwestern society.
FTFY.
To be fair, Jewish lives also only matters to the west if they are busy murdering brown people.
Sooo, which part of...
I was reading them long before you were born, Clyde.
...didn't you get the first time around?
Again. If you are so desperate to cling onto your favorite capitalist-parasite-by-day, fascist-vigilante-at-night wish-fulfillment fantasy I won't stop you. But if you want to get all reactionary and salty when people point out the obvious about the media you have invested so much into you should expect pushback.