These countries are essential to the European project. The EU compromises of countries who were colonisers, non-colonisers and colonised.
The EU’s goal is to unite and facilitate peace. Sure, we have unhealthy power gradients that need to be worked on, but the EU is not a coloniser/settler state.
It’s not a distortion, it’s filling in the picture.
Oh, yes it was a distortion. Europeans are the only people in the world that insist that European colonialism has concluded, and so it is a convenient (and insular) narrative to suggest that “uniting” colonizers and colonized peoples would mean a governmental coalition of exclusively European states and is actually more beneficial to the reproduction of colonialism elsewhere – as in the global south where it has historically and presently done the most harm – than it is to any “European project” oriented toward “peace.”
I’d be surprised if you’ve read any decolonial scholarship, let alone the voices of colonized peoples at all, and then spew this nonsense. How many people in this thread even considered consulting indigenous peoples of Canada in this matter, or even talked about their experiences at all in the past year? Asinine.
It is the most colonizer thing imaginable to misread the “purity test” as, “interacting with any indigenous people” right after fucking tokenizing them to demonstrate your moral purity. When I say, “listen to their voices,” I’m talking about, y’know, not doing exactly what you just did. You didnt talk to them about, “politics?” Gee, I wonder where a person like you would draw the line at what is considered, “politics.” Even if you did genuinely empathise with those people, why the fuck did you not apply that empathy when you say they should be colonized further for their own good?
You guys are Nazis and don’t even have the stomach to admit it to yourself. Fuck off.
I’m not sure if this is meant to evoke a narrative that only exists from distortion or just from a small group.
These countries are essential to the European project. The EU compromises of countries who were colonisers, non-colonisers and colonised.
The EU’s goal is to unite and facilitate peace. Sure, we have unhealthy power gradients that need to be worked on, but the EU is not a coloniser/settler state.
It’s not a distortion, it’s filling in the picture.
Oh, yes it was a distortion. Europeans are the only people in the world that insist that European colonialism has concluded, and so it is a convenient (and insular) narrative to suggest that “uniting” colonizers and colonized peoples would mean a governmental coalition of exclusively European states and is actually more beneficial to the reproduction of colonialism elsewhere – as in the global south where it has historically and presently done the most harm – than it is to any “European project” oriented toward “peace.”
I’d be surprised if you’ve read any decolonial scholarship, let alone the voices of colonized peoples at all, and then spew this nonsense. How many people in this thread even considered consulting indigenous peoples of Canada in this matter, or even talked about their experiences at all in the past year? Asinine.
I’ve actually talked with a few Canadian Cree in the past year. But not about politics or the EU ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
“I can’t be racist, I spoke to a black guy.” Yeah dude, I bet you were super woke with them. Unreal.
I’m sorry that - by chance - I passed the arbitrary purity test that you set up
It is the most colonizer thing imaginable to misread the “purity test” as, “interacting with any indigenous people” right after fucking tokenizing them to demonstrate your moral purity. When I say, “listen to their voices,” I’m talking about, y’know, not doing exactly what you just did. You didnt talk to them about, “politics?” Gee, I wonder where a person like you would draw the line at what is considered, “politics.” Even if you did genuinely empathise with those people, why the fuck did you not apply that empathy when you say they should be colonized further for their own good?
You guys are Nazis and don’t even have the stomach to admit it to yourself. Fuck off.