this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2024
1 points (100.0% liked)

Memes

45731 readers
67 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] JustAnOrdinaryCreep@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

To colonise doesn't mean to murder and entirely replace an ENTIRE population.

But keep on putting everything except European conquest and colonisation into perspective, you're good at it.

You’re making the above poster’s point for them. Well done. It’s pretty fair to assume that Mo Salah’s ancestors were of that same land regardless of what religious or cultural identity they came from.

[–] Birbatron@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago

There's a difference between colonialism and conquest. Conquest was much much more common in the past than colonialism. Before modern European colonialism, the only people who had made colonial efforts had been the Greeks (with small city colonies in places like Libya, for example), and the Norse, with their colonization of Greenland and their attempt to colonize what is today Newfoundland. Otherwise, the rest was conquest. There's a significant difference between the two.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are multiple forms of colonialism. The term settler colonialism' is relatively new.

Settler colonialism is a logic and structure of displacement by settlers, using colonial rule, over an environment for replacing it and its indigenous peoples with settlements and the society of the settlers.

Practically every example you will find is Europeans getting on a boat and killing natives. The most famous example is Manifest Destiny also known as America.