Now that the initial wave of both-sidesm and Israel defending has receded (but ever present) now we have to deal with the more insidious "Stop celebrating violence." This is the real test of valuing decolonialism. Did you think it would be pretty? Nobody is "celebrating" the horrors of war. 1/3

Decolonialism is a violent process cause it must dismantle a system built on genocide. This won't be pretty, & we have to hope for it to take the path of least resistance. But everyone finger wagging so far has been almost exclusively a settler who has never experienced what the colonized have 2/3