• @AdamEatsAss
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      554 months ago

      It’s a weird word to use to describe state sponsored terrorism.

        • @AdamEatsAss
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          44 months ago

          Settlers is a weird word… Not evil.

            • @[email protected]
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              4 months ago

              Yeah but for most people who aren’t knowledgeable about history, the connotation isn’t necessarily negative.

              It should be, but it isn’t. “Settlers of Catan” is probably one of the most popular board games ever, and it’s all just friendly people trading sheep and wood and shit.

                • mathemachristian[he]
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                  04 months ago

                  I would argue that settlers is whitewashing colonization since it has all the hallmarks of exploiting a foreign land and shipping the goods abroad but it’s very conveniently unsettled.

                  Like how the american frontier was claimed to be unsettled land just waiting to be settled.

              • @[email protected]
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                24 months ago

                most people who aren’t knowledgeable about history

                sorry but that’s as the kids say a skill issue

      • @JacksonLamb
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        124 months ago

        “Settlers” isonly weird to you if you discount all the other times settler colonialists stole land and committed ethnic cleansing and genocide.

        • @NormalPerson
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          74 months ago

          Maybe they meant using the word settler instead of something more apt, like invader, pillager, trespasser, violator, etc.