when you're working on a group project and your friend profusely apologizes for not knowing which nation is bordered by peru, bolivia, and argentina
decolonization doesn't actually necessitate the deportation of the settler population but historically many of them have freely chosen to leave on their own rather than lose their position of supremacy
The only historical example of decolonization in a clearly settler-colonialist state would be in South Africa, where the settler population (defined as the population groups "White" and "Asian" by the SA government, and also as such by the Pan-Africanist Congress during the last decade of the struggle against apartheid at least) continued to increase after the end of apartheid. Only 250,000 White South Africans are estimated to have fled in the period after apartheid's fall, about 6% of the White population in 1996. This is straightforwardly incorrect in historical terms, but it reiterates Frantz Fanon's correct predictions of what would happen in decolonization without settler colonialism or settlers.
You could, of course, make the argument that the White and Asian population groups in South Africa are not settlers now, but that simply offers a different statement than what was originally made- the end of settler colonialism doesn't come with major population shifts at all.
I imagine what OP is thinking of might be Pied-Noirs and Algeria? Only a tiny number of them were left by the late 90s iirc. But even then that was over decades after Algerian independence was won.
im sorry but when DECOLONIZE PALESTINE DOT COM, which is RUN BY PALESTINIANS, affirms that a one state solution and the end of ethnonationalist government in the holy land does NOT mean the jewish population should be expelled, you as a white westerner look really, really silly saying it does. and this goes for both paranoid zionists and antisemitic leftists who are thrilled at the concept
This is also very similar to what indigenous people on Turtle Island (North America) have been saying about #landback. From what I learned from my Indigenous studies classes, #landback would mean ceding power over the land back to Indigenous people, not kicking you personally out of your house, or making you go to Europe or something.
Oh definitely dude that totally sounds more based in material reality than what Marx said
modern medicine believes people get sick because of infections, when really it's because they have fevers
“Marx convinced everyone” is such a funny way to start a sentence as a self-serious lib wonk.
(Oct. 26) @Mondoweiss: One of the bakeries that Israel bombed in Nuseirat refugee camp had just received a shipment of flour from UNRWA meant to cover the food needs of the entire camp. Israel waited to bomb it once all the flour was unloaded.
They let humanitarian aid in. Then they bombed it so that Gaza would starve.
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these people are fucking deranged wtf
I'm a historian.
Honestly? I wish we'd had Facebook or whatever inhuman wasteland this is during WWII so Germans couldn't cower behind the "we were all seduced by that wicked sorcerer Hitler" excuse and claim there wasn't a single Nazi in the whole damn country outside of the Führer's inner circle.
It is these records that are crucial in demolishing the convenient mutually consensual fictions of collective innocence that have fueled so much impunity for atrocity's lesser agents.