• @AdamEatsAss
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    556 months ago

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

      • @AdamEatsAss
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        46 months ago

        Settlers is a weird word… Not evil.

          • @[email protected]
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            6 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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                06 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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              26 months ago

              most people who aren’t knowledgeable about history

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

      • @NormalPerson
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        76 months ago

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

    • @JacksonLamb
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      126 months ago

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