They really don't want us to connect the settler-colonial struggle with Palestine. They hate it. 🤔

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.

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.

A trendy academic theory

The author btw

Thread from a Diné comrade: https://twitter.com/majerle_lister/status/1743758429184049393?t=0Qu6VI20jfsrThfLOCx1kA&s=19

Nearly all magazines are liberal magazines, but The Vertlartnic is so starkly a propaganda outlet for liberal apologia.

tier article

Let me guess: Aztecs, Apache, sacrificial ceremonies, and the existence of empires like the Inca are brought up?

Liberal authors are just nazis that aren't open fascists because they think its 'bad optics'

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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