The Atlantic running a hit piece on critiques of settler-colonialism viz. Palestine and it erases Edward Said. The article should be retracted, but its EIC was literally an IDF prison guard, so we’ll get more of the same

First sentence is giving "Isaac Newton invented gravity in the 1660s"

*authoritative voice* : worker revolution was invented in the 1890s to address the perceived inadequacies by the left of Otto von Bismarck’s social reforms which created the first modern welfare state in Germany

I am but a mere biochemist but even I know that entire paragraph is hot garbage. Misrepresenting what settler colonialism is, the critiques thereof and even getting it's origin as field of academic study incorrect.

As if nobody understood it was wrong until white academia got involved 😫

The 1990s. What a sad joke.

Holy crap-sticks, will have to look this up now

The Asslantic doing Asslantic things

Wow I wonder how this worked out in South Africa, South America, the other parts of the US and Canada outside the East Coast, etc. Oh you’re telling me they primarily ‘displaced’ but did not ‘erase or replace’ the colonised people? Maybe the comparison isn’t apt?