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> What is not clear to the German Left is what’s painfully, tragicomedically obvious to all of us from the colonial South: The excuses are the exact same. The settler is allowed to take the land because the indigenous inhabitants are: barbaric; primitive; violent; unethical; a danger to women; [...] The more massacres they suffer, the more the indigenous resort to their own violent retaliations, their own massacres... Every time this happens, the settler-colonial project renews the righteousness of its land-grabbing; every time, the settler-colonial project feels more justified in ethnic cleansing. The colonist doing an ethnic cleansing is merely tragic, but the indigenous attacking a settler village in retaliation is proof of bad blood. Where I come from, we call this the long night of 500 years. Palestine is like watching the 500 years on a speedrun, and it’s downright chilling to watch, in person, so-called antifascists of European privilege, who have never stared at the wrong end of a gun in their lives, comfortably repeating verbatim the arguments we all know from letters to the Spanish Crown.

From: "Oh no you don’t get to blame Netanyahu: Against Germanic bothsideism", https://anarcholatina.blackblogs.org/oh-no-you-dont-get-to-blame-netanyahu-against-germanic-bothsideism/

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