It’s the second to last point in this post that I really want to stick.
It doesn’t really fit into their (originally white European) idea of destroying everything from the ground up and turning it into some communist utopia.
A lot of white leftists on this website dream about a revolution to overthrow the American government, but ultimately, they still want the revolution to be led by them. They want a revolution that mimics European revolutions of the past, because those are the revolutions that they have based their activism on.
They want to destroy the land, and build it back up into a system that they have personally designed, or else they joke about America being invaded by countries such as China or Russia so that communism can finally be brought to America.
This is anti-Native, plain and simple. This is not your land to shape or control. This is not your land to replace one genocidal system with another.
These are people who have not decolonised their minds at all, because they show zero respect and care for the land that they are on. They have absolutely no right to say “America should be nuked” when it’s not their fucking land to wish that upon, and they have no right to sit around tweeting about a glorious revolution when indigenous people are still actively being genocided.
What are you doing to stop this genocide? What is your plan, post revolution, to restore the land to its people? Are you willing to rescind your control of this land to the people it belongs to? And, most importantly, how are you going to ensure that indigenous land is not destroyed during the revolution you’re dreaming of?
I know “burn America to the ground” is just a joke. I know “give America to Canada/Denmark/China” is just a joke. But it’s a joke reinforcing ideas. It’s a joke reinforcing colonisation. It’s a joke that proves that America is not your land, because your callousness and nihilism towards it shows that you do not care.
I mentioned this in the replies, and maybe it’s a stretch, but look at how the state of Israel treats Palestine. They destroy it. They burn the trees to ash. They bomb sacred grounds and historical landmarks. They murder the people who have lived there for thousands of years.
Because, no matter what they try to claim, it is not their land. They have absolutely no respect or care for the land that they’re bombing, because they have no genuine connection to it. They are able to say violent things that lead to violent actions because ultimately, its destruction means nothing to them.
So when white leftists say the same things about America, it proves to me that they have not worked on decolonising their politics, because they sound like a coloniser.
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