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tomenzgg@midwest.social 4 weeks agoIs there a definition of relevant that, for you, doesn’t include the impacts and effects of the thing in question?
Are you going to argue to me with a straight face that the only relevant aspects we should be concerned about with colonialism is whether ownership is current and active?
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 4 weeks ago
Now you’re asking me how I might agree that not having any colonies can still count as colonization?
tomenzgg@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
If you strip the land of resources when you owned it such that people can no longer use it, your colonization of that land – while in the past – is still relevant to the people now trying to eke out an existence on that land.
Playing prescriptionist with definitions isn’t going to absolve Europe of the still ongoing effects that their colonization has caused.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 4 weeks ago
It’s interesting that you spent so much time defending your racism rather than trying to dismiss the allegation.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Europe’s a race, now?
My only response was that you statement that Europe’s history of colonization (which, again, isn’t even true as Europe still has colonies) is still relevant as the effects of that colonization is still present today.
Something you haven’t refuted or even contested; how is acknowledging history racist?