I don’t usually use ‘evil’ to describe things but I don’t know any other word to describe settler states and their tendency to massacre and torment people they stole their land from and gleefully brag about all the horrific atrocities they’ve committed/want to commit. Never before have I seen a group people that take more joy in the suffering of others than the kinds of people that want to wipe out entire societies and claim their land for their own.

This is the kinda shit where if you write villains that act exactly like this people will slam you for bad or unrealistic writing, but no, it would actually be perfectly in line with reality all things considered.

EDIT: ps I know me not good at writing things. Wish I can write my thoughts on this better, but I can’t really get it into right now

  • allnaturalanthrax [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Is colonialism a symptom of whiteness or is whiteness a symptom of colonialism? I don’t know which one came first but one of them of them is the symptom and the other is the cause. We need to find and treat the cause.

    • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      Whiteness is a symptom of colonialism. That particular distinction was invented in response to Bacon’s Rebellion, which had rebels of all ethnic backgrounds. The (bourgeois/feudal lord) response was to invent the category of blackness, as opposed to whiteness, as a legal category that would be subject to the mistreatment that led to Bacon’s Rebellion. Everyone else would now be lumped together despite existing ethnic distinctions between English, Dutch, German, etc and provided with little titles and cutouts so that they could see a path for themselves beyond that of their black previous compatriots. That worked fairly well and reinforced itself over time, becoming the legalistic political basis of chattel slavery.

      To be clear, settlers were already colonists that murdered indigenous people, stole their land, and dehumanized them. But it wasn’t based on whiteness in particular, as the category hadn’t been invented.