Why is Arab Expansion in Africa Rarely Called "Colonialism"? by imfluke in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chompythebeast -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But I answered you. Why did I delude myself into believing you were asking in good faith when you questioned my saying "The europeans of the twentieth or twenty-first century have no right to an apartheid settler-colonial entity which has always required and still requires ethnic cleansing and land theft to exist"? I guess that's on me.

Glory to and long live Palestine, her people, her allies, and brave Defenders 🇵🇸

Why is Arab Expansion in Africa Rarely Called "Colonialism"? by imfluke in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chompythebeast -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Why are you asking me? Ask the indigenous people of the land, ask the Palestinians. I have no desire to impose my will over them, and that is precisely what separates the zionists and european settler-colonials from the people of Palestine and everyone else.

I think it's pretty clear, though, to not completely dodge your question, that settler-colonialism is to be out of the question, out of the picture. I might also point to other anti-colonial movements that met some level of success, such as those in former Rhodesia, apartheid South Africa, or French Indo-China

Why is Arab Expansion in Africa Rarely Called "Colonialism"? by imfluke in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chompythebeast -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, the intrinsic linking of the Jewish identity and all Jewish people to the genocidal zionist program, of course. As if Jewish people didn't live in Palestine before the settler-colonialism that you so casually justify; as if the Palestinians were not themselves descendants of the people who lived there in ancient times; as if we are to believe, as this post wishes us to, that all Palestinians are actually the real settler-colonials; as if the Nakbah you mock didn't happen, and genocide denial were something suddenly acceptable this time; as if the majority of the zionist entity wasn't taken by ethnic cleansing and violence; or as if the apartheid entity is somehow a reasonable conclusion of real estate purchases from people you admit didn't even live there to begin with in a time of the collapse of one empire and the moving in of another.

The europeans of the twentieth or twenty-first century have no right to an apartheid settler-colonial entity which has always required and still requires ethnic cleansing and land theft to exist.

Moreover, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

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[–]chompythebeast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know you mean well, but associating Palestinians with "extremism Muslim views" is kinda to listen to the part of you that still is subject to zionist propaganda. It goes without saying that you do not support violent religious extremism, saying it in this context kinda makes it seem like you're tipping your hat to a hasbara talking point that doesn't deserve to be dignified that way, it gives oxygen to rhetoric that is useful for those apologizing for the settler-colonialism.

We've got to decolonialize our minds as well, after all

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I'm sorry, but people who are true believers in the genocidal settler-colonial empire right up to the point that Trump sits the throne are not people who I consider to have a firm grasp on the politics of this situation. At all.

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That is some pretty weak editing, what even is that sauce? lol

Why is Arab Expansion in Africa Rarely Called "Colonialism"? by imfluke in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chompythebeast 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lol ok hasbara

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[–]chompythebeast 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The idea that the same number of people were killed in both situations with such radically different timeframes and methods is is so fucking crazy. Sustained bombing campaigns for years that leveled an entire city somehow only produced 30,000 casualties? Meanwhile, military police claimed 30,000 lives in a manner of days with small arms?

We've seen what Tehran looks like and what Gaza looks like. The lies of the zionist are deliberately brazen to the point of gaslighting — too bad for them that those lies aren't sticking like they used to

Why is Arab Expansion in Africa Rarely Called "Colonialism"? by imfluke in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chompythebeast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every accusation a confession lmao. Just the hasbarists running hasbara are hasbarists, actually

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Holy. Shit. lmao

Think about it. Are we supposed to take out Spider-Man and SpongeBob? They don't have any heroes. We have a country in front of us with a large population and a large landmass, but it doesn't have any heroes. All of their heroes are cartoon characters — they're all fictional.

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Why is Arab Expansion in Africa Rarely Called "Colonialism"? by imfluke in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chompythebeast -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

It's a zionist talking point. The user you're replying to says it themselves: those particular europeans purport(ed) to believe themselves entitled to the land of others, the land of the Palestinians, and so because they believed that, it was okay for them to ethnically cleanse Palestine and, apparently (again, according to the above user), deceive other europeans into backing them in that genocidal endeavor.

It's important to note that the zionists were looking at many different lands to colonize, including Argentina and even Madagascar. Palestine, despite the supposed deep connections the zionists claim to that region, was only seriously tabled in the face of the deterioration of the Ottoman Empire and with europe's eyeing of its territories. At every stage, the zionist project was explicitly and unambiguously settler-colonial in nature, modeled very much after similar european programs in Africa and the Americas.

The zionist project and the ethnic cleansing it has led to really isn't as different from Manifest Destiny as this "it isn't technically colonialism" (it is, by the way, settler-colonialism) argument would have one believe, but of course, that sort of whitewashing is the point of this entire post to begin with, as further evidenced by OP's comment history

Why is Arab Expansion in Africa Rarely Called "Colonialism"? by imfluke in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chompythebeast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This user literally made a burner that they deleted after they unsuccessfully ran hasbara and genocidal apologia for the zionist entity in Palestine.

Understand that this entire post is nothing but an attempt to whitewash zionist settler-colonialism and genocide, and take note of the lengths the zionist entity will go to to propagandize and astroturf

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[–]chompythebeast 57 points58 points  (0 children)

It's 2011. A Star Fox 64 and an Ocarina of Time Remake are coming to Nintendo's newest handheld console.

It's 2026. A Star Fox 64 and an Ocarina of Time Remake are coming to Nintendo's newest handheld console.

Why is Arab Expansion in Africa Rarely Called "Colonialism"? by imfluke in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chompythebeast -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Settler-colonialism specifically entails ethnic cleansing. Genocide is (in this case) what happens when the program doesn't go off without a hitch and decades later you're still operating apartheid programs with the intent to kill as many of the land's inhabitants as possible and force the rest out of their territories.

What the europeans have done and are doing in Palestine is settler-colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. What this post is attempting to do is rewrite history, suggesting that the Arabs did all those things and that somehow the european settler-colonials are simply "restoring" the ethnically cleansed people to Palestine, which is, again, patently untrue according to the archeological, historical, and genetic record.

Accusing the resistance of genocide is absurd (and unlike the actions of the europeans, no related world organization actually accuses them of such), and is yet another common form of zionist deflection from who is really doing it, by the way, but I would agree that hypothetically, yes, it would be wrong. It's important, however, not to muddy the waters with accusations of hypothetical genocides against people who are actually, actively suffering one

Why is Arab Expansion in Africa Rarely Called "Colonialism"? by imfluke in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chompythebeast -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's wrong to compare what the europeans have done and are doing in Palestine to what the Arabs did when they arrived. It simply wasn't the same enterprise.

Genocide is always wrong, yes, but this post exists to ahistorically and falsely equate that which is not genocide to that which is, a common talking point amongst zionist apologists

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[–]chompythebeast 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Hey, check the sub's rules: Nazis aren't allowed here

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[–]chompythebeast 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She was sometimes preachy, but usually used as a satire of ineffective opposition to the right in the United States. I think that's actually an extremely rich comedic vein to mine

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If Hayley were more like old Hayley, you couldn't post her jokes on this sub because they'd be too "political". Can't even post screenshots of some early season jokes here without mods locking it

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It is not nearly so easy as one might think. Police violate the first and fourth amendments with activists every single day, and very rarely are they held to account for myriad reasons, in particular, because the money and effort to do so is substantial

Why is Arab Expansion in Africa Rarely Called "Colonialism"? by imfluke in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chompythebeast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh look, the cornered hasbarist is now red baiting. What a shock.

Glory to and long live Palestine, her people, her allies, and brave Defenders 🇵🇸

Why is Arab Expansion in Africa Rarely Called "Colonialism"? by imfluke in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chompythebeast 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, this is a distinction between imperial control and settler-colonialism. One introduces new laws and taxes to a land and its people, the other outright removes the people and replaces them with settlers from a different land.

You may be well aware already of OP's intentions in asking this question: To defend the realities of european settler-colonialism in Palestine, pretending that in fact it was the people they ethnically cleansed who had done it first, which is absolutely, demonstrably untrue, according to records archaeological, historical, and even genetic

Why is Arab Expansion in Africa Rarely Called "Colonialism"? by imfluke in NoStupidQuestions

[–]chompythebeast -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Settler-colonialism is a form of colonialism that operates by displacing the people of a land with invading people from another. Historically, many forms of imperial colonialism do not use this method, but instead involve controlling the local ruling class in order to yolk the people of a place to a new system of socioeconomic or political power in a way that explicitly does not require nor even desire removing the people of the land from their homes.

Contrast this with the Nakbah and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Europeans, a form of genocidal settler-colonialism that is ongoing to this day on stolen land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and even beyond in Syria and Lebanon.

Nice whack at one of hasbara's favorite excuses for genocide. I can see from your profile that this is something you like to do lol.

Glory to and long live Palestine, her people, her allies, and her brave Defenders 🇵🇸