• glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 days ago

    Tbf under the Settlers model a lot of the 1/3 that didn’t vote are internally colonised people, not considered settlers themselves

    • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]
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      4 days ago

      Sure only a small fraction of indigenous people voted but a lot of Latinos voted for trump and a lot of black people voted for Harris. A lot of each probably didn’t vote. While I think a lot of value is contained in settlers, I can see why critics would point to such idealist tendencies as assuming all colonized are conscious actors and all settlers are wealthy and invested in the status quo or fascism.

      • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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        4 days ago

        Admittedly it’s been years and years since I read Settlers but I’m not sure if I’d consider it idealism, more like a vulgar simplified materialism.

      • Jabril [none/use name]
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        4 days ago

        A lot of Latinos are white tho I'm surprised I haven't seen more people pointing this out with all the recent rhetoric around who voted for Trump.

    • ManFreakBeast [he/him]
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      4 days ago

      A surprising amount of internally colonized people went pro-Trump though, some openly for anti-immigration reasons.

      • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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        4 days ago

        This is why we do class analysis and not just identity politics. Plenty of those colonised have ascended to a petit-boug or boug position within the colony (this concept is ever-present in Fanon).

        That’s without addressing the huge issue of false consciousness.