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I think any analysis of Latin America has to contend with the fact that it's as much a settler colonial project as the US or Canada or Australia. I know it doesn't feel *good* or patria grande or whatever to acknowledge that fact but it's true, being settler colonies that have historically been fucked over doesn't make us *not* settler colonies.

("Oh but there are active indigenous communities in-" yeah. Same goes for the US, same goes for New Zealand, same goes for fucking Israel. Doesn't matter here)
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shroomie

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@AppleAmps ik you’re already saying this but you didn’t quite say it explicitly so like. it’s easy to forget that when colonizad latin america is also persecuted by colonial countries. it’s like. it’s getting the double colonial boot

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monaant@toot.garden

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@AppleAmps every country an empire. It's why I don't care for nationalism.

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AppleAmps

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Ehhhh, it depends. Indigenous Latin-Americans sure are but for whiteys like me it's not really that simple. In a way by being here and living on stolen land I'm exerting colonial oppression over the indigenous population while myself being oppressed by those "colonial countries".
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@AppleAmps yeah the double boot applies to i think the land itself, as anthropomorphized by the people on it

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