He called me a setter and a nazi out of the blue, and I asked him if he slanders everyone or if he has a reason for saying that about me, then he replies with this legendary quote:
If you’re Amerikan, then you live in the bowels of the single most brutal settler-colonial entity to exist in the modern era. “Settling” is not a once-and-done action; it is a constant state as long as you are on settled land.
That’s about as bad as it gets. That person is unhinged!
Sooo they should go settle somewhere else? Where do they expect them to go? Or maybe they just want US to kill themselves. Hmm, maybe Hexbear isn’t that well-reasoned at its heart…
It’s fucking easy to virtue signal “colonialism bad”. It’s much harder to propose a solution that doesn’t involve even more mass death of innocents. If someone doesn’t have primum non nocere at the heart of their politics, they are not healing anything. They are just doing blood for blood.
Well Italy, Japan and Germany all did some bad stuff in WWII so why don’t we swap places.
let’s not.
It would be the source of many memes
I swear I’ve seen that same account screeching that it is good if Donald wins because any amount of collateral damage is acceptable as long as some number of “crackers” are put up against a wall.
Just a repugnant little internet troll. An excellent example of why defederating from hexbear is the right course of action.
If you find those comments you should post them over here
If you search their comments for “cracker” the rage is a decent portion of their content.
What I remember was basically like https://lemmy.ml/post/20607225/13895181 but specifically tailored to whether or not Donald is a threat we should all vote against.
Pretty delusional. Repub pogroms wouldn’t be targeting the classic liberals this person despises. IDK who they expect will be doing reconstruction afterwards. Of course they’re participating on instances where fragile mods protect ahistorical clownery.
lol that’s hilarious. I’m posting that one for sure
I guarantee you they are also American or from a settler country. Racist too
Sometimes I wonder if it is time to return to the trees
100%
As a white American descendant of colonial settlers, they’re not entirely wrong, it’s just that their anger is misdirected. It should be directed at those in power rather than regular people. It’s unreasonable to expect all descendants of colonial settlers to leave, but it’s not unreasonable to ask them to be aware of their history and how the systems of power and control that were put in place then are still going strong today.
Given I can’t see your original comment they were responding to I’ll reserve judgement regarding whether what they said is reasonable.
Honestly it all is ludicrous. You absolutely should know your history but trying to hold every white person in existence liable for the actions of people who died long before we were all born is silly. You can’t change the past you can only make the future. You might as well blame my dog for the suffering of the past. It accomplishes nothing. What’s worse is that some people have developed a complex about the history especially if they of a race that was harmed historically.
Don’t blame people alive today for mistakes and cruelty of the past. That is unfair to everyone involved.
You have to be careful not to go too far in the other direction as well. We may be blameless for atrocities that were committed by our ancestors but we do bear some responsibility to address the lasting effects of those atrocities and to oppose the continued settler-colonial project of which we are still part.
And don’t take this the wrong way, responsibility does not equal guilt. Every US citizen is not guilty of invading Iraq, for example, but every US citizen does bear some responsibility to oppose the systems of power that allowed such a thing to be done in our name.
I can’t say I agree but I respect your opinion
Yeah, but then people use that logic to deny that there are structural inequities that need to be fixed.
Thanks I was making a comment much like yours where I was being compassionate towards an Israeli who was conscripted at 18 like 20 years ago and didnt want to hurt anyone and worked as a secretary, and who seems traumatized by the experience, and who is very outspoken about the Israeli genocide…
She’s a victim of the machine too, and her hands are mostly tied, so I think that its unfair to say she’s a bad person for being in the IDF
i’m curious though. what about prisoner states?
were the prisoners considered colonists, or just the lords considered colonists?
It might surprise you that the prisoners weren’t the ones in charge of any so-called prison colonies.
i’m not challenging you. just asking questions, since most white folk in australia are called settlers despite the majority having ancestry from prisoners.
I don’t know enough about the history of Australian colonization to speak authoritatively about it. If I had to guess I’d say that those who found themselves on the wrong side of the British empire’s laws were given some kind of choice and found the option of being sent to settle Australia preferable to whatever alternative was presented. In that sense they could be considered settlers, but it could possibly have been a choice made under duress.
That being said it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest to hear that they were similarly brutal towards the aborigines as settlers in America were towards the native Americans. History is complicated and there is no black and white, but there are rights and wrongs and it’s important to recognize that while genocide can be explained, it cannot be excused.
well said
According to demented fuckwads: All americans are settlers who should settle a different country to atone for the crimes of their forefathers…
Colonialism was terrible, but technically all land is settled. Humans always moved and settled somewhere else, even before we could be classified as homo sapiens, and that was often brutal too when we encountered others. There’s ultimately no space where we truly came from or belong to.
Im pretty sure we all came out of africa
Ethnic cleansing and ethnonationalism is okay as long as it’s anti-West, clearly.
Those people presented a problem so it was fair that they got eliminated
There’s a lot of validity to pointing out that colonization is an ongoing process. Just ask any native tribe that’s lost their fight over sacred lands so some jackass oligarch can pump oil the short way.
I’m not sure “ethnically cleanse all people with European blood” is the answer.
There’s a lot of validity to pointing out that colonization is an ongoing process. Just ask any native tribe that’s lost their fight over sacred lands so some jackass oligarch can pump oil the short way.
I agree, it’s just, you know, “White person living” isn’t “continuing colonization”. Shit like the Dakota Access Pipeline is continuing colonization. Seems to be the issue with a lot of tankie takes. They find an actual issue that needs to be fought, and proceed to get nearly every detail of it wrong.
It’s because their legitimate anger gets harnessed by bad actors.
Taking illegitimate actions fucks up the legitimacy of legitimate anger. Why should anybody relinquish power if the other side can’t do it any better?
That’s not to say we don’t need a change. But if you’re poor, blaming the rich, then you’ll be rich, blaming the poor later. Neither breaks the cycle.
Anyone said this?
well i got banned form lemmy.ml for calling attention to communists threats, so clearly there is a double standard
Lmao, these pricks are actually hurting their own base by alienating themselves so hard.
Sucks to suck 🤷
The whole settler thing is never going to resonate when you’re accusing someone whose family has been there for generations of being complicit.
I understand I benefit from colonialism, but my hands are kinda tied! I It’s like I don’t even own property the super wealthy are the real colonisers! We mostly went from beneficiary to bystanders, to victims as well. And I call out genocide every chance I get but to the hexbear I might as well have done the atrocities myself…
Yeah when I joke with my native buddies about the whole “stolen land” thing (which absolutely white colonizers stole land from natives in Canada) I’m always like “well boys, they didn’t give any to me and my family, because we still don’t own shit.”
The working poor are part of the victims, we aren’t part of the victimizers. Myself personally, I wouldn’t shed one single fucking tear if all the generational colonialist pigfucks had to return all the land they own to native Canadians.
Just do the best you can with the power you have.
Nobody wants to heart this, but: All of the abuses of power on the large scale are personal issues that have continued, unresolved, into the large scale, because we haven’t resolved them on the small scale.
Do your part. Process your shit. Through that, you gain the perspective to use what power you do have well, without fucking yourself or others over in the process.
I mean they aren’t wrong. Just because the natives have been exterminated doesn’t change the fact that they were here first.
I’m pretty sure exterminated is the wrong term…
The “natives” are still around you know
Are they wrong about the solution being exterminating all Americans?
out of the blue
Lol, this is why i love this comm
What’s that mean?
It means I really enjoy the posts in this comm
I though you might like this
glad you do
Heh
Some truth there… but kinda odd to be spazzing about america when Israel is genociding people to settle Palestine as we speak lol
Man people out here really just trying to make everything related to the conflict, huh? Switch off lol
nah, mate
alright, well, just be mindful of history because it gets very complicated very fast.
If you’re Amerikan, then you live in the bowels of the single most brutal settler-colonial entity to exist in the modern era.
They are not fully wrong. What were you banned for?
My post was deleted for being rude to someone calling for my death…
EDIT: Im banned now! apparently calling attention to threats is a bannable offence!
Get out of there while you can
Surely the Dutch win that contest
Normies in shambles… my empire good, my empire strong…
Why not? Amerikkkans don’t have an ethnicity or culture anyway
Uhhhhh… then we’d be settling some other place??? how do yo not get this?
They do tho
It’s cute how hard you try to be inflammatory.
