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Scottish Dragon8/03/2018 1:20:11 pm PDT

re: #94 JordanRules

What year did settler colonialism in the U.S. end?

I think you would have to see it as a period where it is in decline. When you see Arizona become a state in 1912 I think, that might be a hard end to physical colonization.

I’m sure she means the word in some other sense of cultural supremacy. I saw one post on her twitter feed advocating that native Americans should learn their tribal languages or white people will do it for them, which is risible nonsense. It’s hard enough trying to teach white American students basic English.

So Eurocentric culture is ‘colonizing’ native indigenous cultures and I have no damned clue how you stop cultures from appropriating and trading and commercializing stuff from one another or why you should try to stop it. I really don’t get this. Cultures that remain in contact will make irrevocable changes on each other with respect to language, durable goods, religious beliefs, mores and food.

The appropriation here is taking a word…colonization…and misusing it in a way to set an inflammatory definition on unavoidable human contact. The fact that Europeans stole land and lives from American indigenous people is crime enough. You will get no argument from me if you want to talk about racial disparities in law enforcement, education and public health. Those things are not ‘colonization’ however.