• Todd Bonzalez
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    41 month ago

    Yeah, because it’s not the settling part of a settler that is harmful. Settling in new lands is a foundational human behavior.

    It’s displacing people when you settle on their already claimed land, and treating yourself as superior that tends to badly violate human rights.

    In the fantasy world of Catan, we don’t genocide the natives to gain territory. This doesn’t make Catan harmful, it makes it a game.

    • mathemachristian[he]
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      01 month 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.