Nothing but bad faith whinging and settler apologia. They can incant “both sides! nuance!” and put “indigenous” and “colonizer” in quotes all they like, but stolen land is stolen land, and nothing makes genocide acceptable, least of all the passage of time, especially when the genocide is ongoing.
The article, remarkably, contains no arguments, presumably because there is no real defense of apartheid and settler colonialism. It cites and references the theories of anti-imperialist, leftist, and indigenous scholars, but does nothing to refute them, banking instead on the idea that their white settler audience will recoil in horror at the idea of justice. In the absence of any real assertions, all that’s left to do is to point at your opposition and intone how radical, unrealistic, and unacceptable their ideas are while carrying yourself with a smug, uncritical self-satisfaction that demands total intertia. “How dare Hamas fight against their oppressors! Demanding land-back is unfair to all the settlers who already stole the land.”
Bonus point for the anti-Hamas atrocity propaganda.
They know they can’t openly say “landback is just code for white genocide” but they want their WASP audience to think that, hence their article just being empty fearmongering about this “trendy academic theory”
It has been really weird watching the self-proclaimed “unbiased” “centrist” media in the US start to say the sort of things that Fox news was saying a decade ago. Something something overton window.
Nothing but bad faith whinging and settler apologia. They can incant “both sides! nuance!” and put “indigenous” and “colonizer” in quotes all they like, but stolen land is stolen land, and nothing makes genocide acceptable, least of all the passage of time, especially when the genocide is ongoing.
The article, remarkably, contains no arguments, presumably because there is no real defense of apartheid and settler colonialism. It cites and references the theories of anti-imperialist, leftist, and indigenous scholars, but does nothing to refute them, banking instead on the idea that their white settler audience will recoil in horror at the idea of justice. In the absence of any real assertions, all that’s left to do is to point at your opposition and intone how radical, unrealistic, and unacceptable their ideas are while carrying yourself with a smug, uncritical self-satisfaction that demands total intertia. “How dare Hamas fight against their oppressors! Demanding land-back is unfair to all the settlers who already stole the land.”
Bonus point for the anti-Hamas atrocity propaganda.
They know they can’t openly say “landback is just code for white genocide” but they want their WASP audience to think that, hence their article just being empty fearmongering about this “trendy academic theory”
It has been really weird watching the self-proclaimed “unbiased” “centrist” media in the US start to say the sort of things that Fox news was saying a decade ago. Something something overton window.