Look at the result of the US election and tell me why you think it is beneficial to promulgate this simplistic colonizer/colonized, oppressor/oppressed narrative. It is no longer useful. Identity politics has become the new McCarthyism of the left. I am on the left, and I want us to extract our heads from our collective asses and start talking about things that matter to non-indoctrinated people.
I genuinely don’t see what one has to do with another. Colonialism is an expression of capitalism. It’s the same shit, it’s just a way of describing a slightly different colour of shit. Canada was created to DO colonialism: to extract value from natural and human resources in this geographical area, and transfer that value to private/corporate ownership. Our government was created and to this day fundamentally exists to facilitate that transfer. It’s not even about First Nations anymore. We are all being exploited. Your white guilt is preventing you from seeing the reality you live in. This isn’t about turning you into a boogeyman, it’s about liberating ALL OF US.
Why do you want to just pretend it isn’t a thing? Why do you stoop to defend it? You don’t bother explaining that.
We live in a capitalist society in the West and it has delivered spectacular benefits to most of us, more so than any other economic model that’s been tried.The fundamental problem at the moment isn’t “colonialism”, it is that the balance of power in our capitalist society has shifted over time to benefit the rich more than the middle and bottom of the economic spectrum. From WW2 until about 1975, we had a pretty good balance, but real wage growth stalled after that. How do we fix that? By whinging about colonialism (in 2024!?!) and engaging in worthless and destructive zero-sum oppressor/oppressed victimhood identity politics? Fuck no. We need to shift the political balance in economics to something more reasonable. We need Bernie Sanders-type practical working class socialism, not academic champagne socialism that is obsessed with language policing and fantasy-based kumbaya communism.
Look at the result of the US election and tell me why you think it is beneficial to promulgate this simplistic colonizer/colonized, oppressor/oppressed narrative. It is no longer useful. Identity politics has become the new McCarthyism of the left. I am on the left, and I want us to extract our heads from our collective asses and start talking about things that matter to non-indoctrinated people.
I genuinely don’t see what one has to do with another. Colonialism is an expression of capitalism. It’s the same shit, it’s just a way of describing a slightly different colour of shit. Canada was created to DO colonialism: to extract value from natural and human resources in this geographical area, and transfer that value to private/corporate ownership. Our government was created and to this day fundamentally exists to facilitate that transfer. It’s not even about First Nations anymore. We are all being exploited. Your white guilt is preventing you from seeing the reality you live in. This isn’t about turning you into a boogeyman, it’s about liberating ALL OF US.
Why do you want to just pretend it isn’t a thing? Why do you stoop to defend it? You don’t bother explaining that.
We live in a capitalist society in the West and it has delivered spectacular benefits to most of us, more so than any other economic model that’s been tried.The fundamental problem at the moment isn’t “colonialism”, it is that the balance of power in our capitalist society has shifted over time to benefit the rich more than the middle and bottom of the economic spectrum. From WW2 until about 1975, we had a pretty good balance, but real wage growth stalled after that. How do we fix that? By whinging about colonialism (in 2024!?!) and engaging in worthless and destructive zero-sum oppressor/oppressed victimhood identity politics? Fuck no. We need to shift the political balance in economics to something more reasonable. We need Bernie Sanders-type practical working class socialism, not academic champagne socialism that is obsessed with language policing and fantasy-based kumbaya communism.