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[RE-UPLOAD] Decolonization is Not a Metaphor - Tuck & Yang

Red Menace

CHAPTER

The Relationship Between American Patriotism and the Problem of Settler Colonialism

i think that texts like this uteven beyond this, just the notion of taking decolonization seriously a itis very upsetting to this particular crowd. The accusation that demands for the repatriation of land by the indigenous amount to a facistic demand for an ethno state under which they, the innocent settler, will be forcefully placed in the position of the colonized is nothing but the quivering, shaking, age old insecurity that white europeans have done to others around the world. This sort of pathology is in the mind of enslavers and geniciters for centuries. And these fears, often repressed, come out in grotesque ways, as seen all throughout history.

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