The Psychology of Colonialism

[@n.r.4579]

A lot of colonizer leftists really should learn from your description of "John" - and better yet, read the authors you mentioned. Too many assume things that exist only within colonialism will continue to exist in a new, leftist world with a rose, hammer and sickle, or circle A painted on it. Particularly regarding who owns the land (and what "own" means, and whether anyone should "own" land at all).

[@brittanyhayes1043]

Holy shit thank god someone says it.

[@formercrow5242]

Yeah couldn't agree more, I am currently reading colonizer and the colonized, Memmi really gets the noggin' joggin'!

[@TheTroutyness]

I am open to radical change but right now I am very aware that I fall into this trap. My family and friends are asleep and I am disabled. I cannot afford to defy them in a literal sense by design, which makes me a poor ally. I hope this can change.

[@spikedpsycho2383]

Average iQ in sub-Saharan Africa is high 60s to low 70s. non-functional in modern sense. For reference sake, 60 and below is retarded. There is no intelligence culture in native population so they cannot build on what West started. Tribal societies do not build civilizations. If the populations of Iceland and Haiti were swapped,what would happen?Within 5 years Haiti would be a tropical paradise, and Iceland would be human free because they would all have frozen or starved to death after the first winter! Former colonies, were left with superior infrastructure, roads, electricity, plumbing and legal and economic systems, and trade connections even telecommunications to the wider world to that of any other colony. All of the ex-colonies that were once under Britain have been running on its fumes since obtaining their independence, and all of them have been run into the ground over the last 70 years while still maintaining a dismal yet higher rank among the nations of that continent. Geopolitical freedom, personal freedom cannot survive average iQ below 90. Africa fell to warlordism, Middle East fell to Fundamentalist Theocracy. Asia is only post-colonial society that surmounted it's colonial past; they have higher average iQ.

[@upmayo100]

Since this video focuses mostly on the overtly white supremacist colonialism of Africa, as an Irishmen I was not expecting this video to strike such a strong chord with me. @11:04 You talked about how the colonised still bare the traces of colonisation. We still bare some values, techniques and methods with the coloniser. In Ireland we still use the British parliamentary system; still use a capitalist economic system; still speak mostly in English; and to our great shame, to some extent we have held on to the vestiges of the white supremacist ideology used to justify the scramble for Africa.

[@upmayo100]

Many of us like to draw a parallel between the history of the Irish and the history of the African peoples, partly to absolve ourselves of any white-guilt. We point to the fact that long before the colonisation of Africa, it was the Irish who were looked upon as the savage, lesser race. We also point to the indentured servitude that many Irish people were subjected to and draw a false equivalency between that and slavery. The truth is that Irish Catholics participated in justifying the subjugation of the African peoples through our charity and Christian missionary work. We allowed the colonisation to be seen as benevolent and in the spirit of sharing the Christian faith to the "primitive" natives. Additionally many of the Irish in post slavery America were extremely hostile to the freed slaves competing with them in the labour market. White supremacy is only something that we are now starting to come to terms with in Ireland.

[@bungus2012]

Oh fuck yeah this applies to the Irish, they've been colonized for centuries by everyone from the Romans to Margaret Thatcher. This fits the history of pretty much most places that aren't major first world powers today

[@upmayo100]

@@bungus2012 The Romans never invaded Ireland (although they did trade with the Irish to some extent) but your point still stands.

[@bungus2012]

@@664theneighbor5 Lmfao you're a perfect example of why the modern left is useless as it is. Thanks for adding your meaningless complaint and attempt to undermine people discussing things because one or both of us are """colonizers""". Congrats, what could have been a learning experience is now the oppression olympics. Like fucking what? lmfao

[@leenazzouni]

David I strongly recommend that you watch the video of Dr. Graig Considine on the parrarels between the settler colonialism in Ireland and Palestine: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5zYpaKNl99mars

[@beebalmbadil]

your ability to hold compassion as a foundational premise, while seeking truth and accountability, is an inspiration

[@deadra5049]

Thank you for naming her without naming her. 😜

[@Andrewism]

ah, someone got it 😉🤣

[@upmayo100]

@I'm very curious about who the unnamed woman is? 🤔

[@molotovmafia2406]

@@upmayo100 i suppose it´s about candace owens

[@giannisparanis3373]

I am glad this happened intentionally hehe

[@LightGlyphRasengan]

I was wondering if he was referring to the same person lol

[@bilalshamim7275]

I don't know why but this made me cry

[@kai6377]

I think this is my favorite video yet. Short, yet deep. It's interesting to think that there are also people who are colonizers who got colonized afterwards, or people who were colonized and then became colonizers. Which means probably working on the two fronts - to accept your culture and embrace your past, and to shed the mindset of a colonizer.

[@greenfire4115]

You're fitting my reading today man. Thanks a lot. I know it wasn't planned, but you honestly have helped make a bad day bearable. :)

[@camazotzz]

Something Interesting about colonization is that it seems to be an inheritance passed from abuser to abusee. The British and Spanish did colonialism because a similar thing was done to them by the Romans, the Roman are likely descendants of Greeks who fled invasions of their own. None of this is an excuse of course, we do not excuse a man for beating his wife and children because he was beaten as a child, but it does help us understand why people are the way they are.

[@OccupySalemOregon]

That may exacerbate the symptoms. I've met people who came to these same ideas and have done mind-warping amount of those and other types. Not everyone who's imbibed goes down the path many of us are trying to find and open towards total liberation.

[@camazotzz]

@@fallout1953 not sure why people are talking about with shrooms... Anyways, Many tribal people as the per-ceasarian brits were would engage in warfare with their neighbors, but tribal warfare is not the same thing as colonization.

[@merry6671]

@@camazotzz Tribal warfare is literally incompetent colonialism. This has a lot to do with the "African Cope". It is the mentality Africans have to adapt to maintain a minimal level of pride. It is hard for them, as pioneers of slavery, tribalists themselves, "zulu warriors", were all that which the colonialists were, only differentiating in their competence and limited scale as result of incompetence. Tribal warfare is as close to ones actual ethnicity as one can get. It is the lowest on the spectrum of: Tribalism < Racism < Humanism < Veganism. Racism to the degree that we know it today is a great achievement. To think that in pre-medieval periods of time, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Germanic people and More would work together under a banner "white" would have seemed ridiculous. You can see the consequences of the African Cope when they talk about all these cultures, and show all these dances, leaving out the clitoris cutting, cannibal, and murderous nature and history these people came from. It doesn't really have much to do with the British getting back at the Romans. The whole world was already getting back at itself. Africa included. The type of mantra that you try to do has more to do with the African Cope, that tries to paint things uniquely (of the type of thing you hate), failing to even admit that even the slightest thing was "superior" about the people that managed to tremble the armies of those in denial. This video too is filled with that Cope, when he calls people with a strong manifest "privileged", as if they didn't start off with sticks and stones as any other, or "painting their faces blue in the forest" as George Galloway would've called it.

[@aprilk141]

@@fallout1953 this is straight out of the WS handbook. The nerve trying to paint all humanity as violent and power hungry, does he only see what is inside his own mind. Assuming this WS trash is in north America, when he says 'foreign races' he ain't calling himself out as a foreigner, he is using language the is designed to create a white Christian ethnostate. Way too far gone to have words with.

[@Jimmy_The_Goat]

@@aprilk141 genuine question, why would you oppose a white christian ethnostate?

[@pianosopher]

Lmao I saw that Candace owens reference

[@carimavandijk1091]

@@fallout1953 it's been proven colorblindness doesnt work because people implicitely learn things from the society they live in and perpetuate the same stereotypes, prejudaces etc. So yeah, by ignoring racism, racism continues, who wouldve thought.

[@alexn.2901]

Did you name Candace after Candace Owens ? 😭 And Nat after Nat Turner, Christopher after Christopher Columbus and John after John Brown?

[@terran9264]

I noticed that too. Nice touch!

[@ronyungblut9722]

I wondered if it might have been John Smith, from Pocahontas

[@jaymancini8028]

what an insightful analysis of the long-lasting psychological effects of colonialism. showing this to my middle schoolers. would love to see some younger student-friendly videos in the future. one love

[@LogicGated]

Colonisation of the mind, truly explains the insidious nature of racism in contemporary society.

[@andrewmandrona7891]

These last few days have been real interesting. I finally realized how hard it can be to imagine a world outside the grasps of colonialism.

[@TheCardgameWriter]

I love this video. I mean..I haven't finished it yet, I've been re listening to The Colonizer Who Refuses over and over trying to internalize it. But I'm gonna move on and try again later. Thanks for the viewpoints! :)

[@LuckyBlackCat]

I've never a full Fanon book, though I did read a few chapters years ago. If I want to learn more about what Fanon said about the psychological impact of colonialism on the colonized and colonizer, which would you recommend I read: Wretched of the Earth or Black Skins, White Masks?

[@Andrewism]

Wretched of the Earth for sure

[@LuckyBlackCat]

@@Andrewism k thanks!

[@scottwilliams645]

Wow I didnt expect you to be from the Caribbean Its always nice to see other Carribbean youtubers who arent vloggers

[@fynntasticmovienight]

your voice is always so satysfying/good! Like a radio voice, clear and very engaging

[@aname206]

This video is top of the line. I'm subbing, and looking forward to more work.

[@ItHadToBeSaid]

I think this is my new favorite channel

[@ohyui]

I live in the Philippines, an archipelago that was colonized by three nations. Spain colonized us for 333 years and sold us to USA just to save face since they were losing to the Filipino revolutionaries. It pains me to watch that majority of Filipinos are the "colonized who accepts." Some even wish that it would be better for USA to gain authority over us, not knowing the history and how they were brutal to us, Filipinos.

[@mjolninja9358]

That’s also why “Colonial Mentality” is still prevalent in the Philippines, most of them are ashamed of being brown and fat nosed. It’s hard for them to relate in what they consume, they watch hollywood movies, Korean movies, Japanese Animes and rarely any Filipino in sight. They reject history, no questions asked when revisions happen. School prefer children that speaks english. Other Languages other than Tagalog are being heard as sounding stupid.

[@erinmcgraw5208]

You're one of my FAV channels now!!! Your profile pic is giving Basquiat energy!! 💛 Can't wait to watch this channel grow! 💙💙

[@joshmorcombe4907]

I am a John. Listning to you describe John was unsettlingly accurate, and as a person living in North America it makes me feel particularly sick. I guess my question is just what can do, what can I advocate for, specifically? What's the best course of action that I can take so that, even if I fail to be a part of the solution, I can at least stop being part of the problem? What should I avoid doing, what are some common pitfalls of people trying to do the right thing? If anyone has any other good resources or reading I'd appreciate that too. Any advise that anyone has to offer would be appreciated.

[@hestiathena4917]

Seconded. I know all too well the deep sins my country was built upon. I was taught and believed for the longest time that we had made progress addressing those sins, but the last decade has proven beyond a doubt that we are nowhere near where we need to be. I can see some of the areas where I have privilege, but I worry about being blind to others. I want to help, but I am no longer sure what "help" should look like, and all sides involved are so hurt and angry right now that it's a difficult subject to discuss constructively. I feel like the only thing I can do, since I know I can't lead and I don't know who to follow, is to stay out of the way... which probably doesn't really help anything.

[@Theballonist]

Internally disconnect your sense of safety and wellbeing from the state. That is the best advice I can give you. Understand that any privilege or benefit that you receive from being a supportive participant is not the purpose of this system. The purpose of this system is to elevate a very few ultra wealthy ultra powerful people to a place of feeling like gods. Any benefit you receive is simply a mechanism of the system to buy your willing participation. They do not care if you live or die through pandemics and climate catastrophe, and they do not care about your children’s well-being, because the only goal they have is to continue perpetuating a system where all their needs and desires are met personally. Detach yourself from all the stories that there was ever any intention for these empires to build a better world. They use your dreams like parasites.

[@lilithmotherofmonsters6055]

You should start by watching the more positive videos from St Andrewism, and especially be on the lookout for his videos that tell you about how to reconnect with Nature Itself. Specifically, that's what this channel calls solar punk, though I'm certain you, after internalizing that fully, will be able to recognize it elsewhere This is also coming from someone who's Mother Tongue is colonialism fyi

[@Lycandros]

Christopher, great name choice for the Colonizer who accepts. 🖤💜👍💜🖤

[@thecr6402]

@@fallout1953 why are you so bitter?lol

[@serenaduca9945]

I just love how you explained such a complicate theme. Thank you for sharing this 🙏🏼

[@LiberatedIndigenousAborigine]

Thank you, very good! We will share this universal video with everyone in our circle. Wholeness and balance. We will also subscribe. Thanks again.

[@hollyrose9336]

Also, I know I’m commenting a lot, but thank you so much for captions

[@BeyondBinaryThinking]

Superb work. Would love to have you on for a crossover if you'd like to discuss this, or any other topic in a more informal, conversational way.

[@Andrewism]

Sure, i'd love to be on! I like the name of your podcast. Message me on Twitter.

[@kokomiyokoko]

this was great, loved the colorful illustrations - thank you

[@Jacksonidara]

Thank you. It was educative, informative and entertaining. Stood on all legs of the tripod

[@naturalfreeness322]

Amazing detail video, it is pure introspected Genius, it is masterfully laid out, with all the psychological implications of the colonialist Indoctrination, understanding the oppressor the abuser is trapped by their own his unstable values. The most tragic personality type is the Kansas type, the Stockholm syndrome,

[@ericrae7531]

Catching up! There are so many videos! Just commenting to feed the algorithm.

[@Beesativity]

Great video Saint Andrew. I was shocked and appalled that I wasn't subscribed already.

[@dawnbern2917]

Thank you so much for this! I am John. I am ready for all new. No borders anywhere, and I don't mean just territorially.

[@RainbowDevourer]

What does that even mean, "no borders anywhere"? How does one get Russia, India, China, North Korea, the EU and America to suddenly stop being in a vast geopolitical struggle? Its leaders and institutions who wield psychological manipulation as a tool to create distinct world-views on an industrial scale. We are herd-animals after all, and as a wise person said; "people aren't stupid, people are fucking stupid". Most will follow the herd. The best one can hope for is leaders able to create a proper monkey-management-system that also is able to account for ecological survival (out of pure self-interest if necessary)

[@dawnbern2917]

@@RainbowDevourer I am so with you rainbow! I guess I'm looking far far into the future, I'll be long gone, Utopia, without the herd mentality,, free, creative beings living harmoniously within the All. Just sayin' ...

[@sereminar4]

Thanks for another fantastic video!

[@nug9g]

being hispanic, candace feels like an embodiment of mexico's people. a people who had no choice but to submit to colonizer mentality and build its new culture off of white supremacy. although what came of south america's colonization looks very beautiful, our mentality and the things we believe how we hurt how we "love" are a aftermath, the truama of a successful colonization.

[@louisaruth]

another video knocked out of the park

[@notsoancientpelican]

very informative, thank you for posting

[@nmfp2943]

Thank you for a very important video.

[@judielove3784]

When your the colonized who accepts...💔😞 7:50

[@XPimKossibleX]

Please keep going! Looking forward to your take on Fanon! (My) KZbin needs you you grounded inspiring saint

[@crystal-pupa]

this is deep!! thank you ❤❤

[@baiwatch1]

Christopher and Candance were perfectly chosen names.

[@notmyfingers]

This videos needs more views.

[@siancharles-harris2366]

You had me at “so schupid and servile”

[@carn8ge]

Here on Aruba we are still under the thumb of the neoliberal gov and monarchy of the netherlands 😢🤬

[@zyanego3170]

The Monarchy has barely any power lol

[@a55555yo]

loved this video keep going!!

[@marojiyam2258]

you should do videos on misogyny and black women, and our own treatment by black men also - no youtuber I’ve watched has ever touched on this topic

[@Andrewism]

I'd recommend checking out the work of Tee Noir and Kat Blaque, they've both covered these topics extensively!

[@brave_new_india_science]

the description of colonised country is strongly relates me to present day india the marks of colonisation still haunt and shaped us to live with their superior way

[@bloomindoom]

Fantastic video

[@mikaelafpetersens]

Peace!

[@clarissagao9324]

Ah Cesaire's A Tempest perfectly depicts the Nat and Candace!!!

[@individualm6712]

Thank you for this.

[@DrAnarchy69]

Very interesting, made me think a lot and confront some internal bigotry.

[@bashiirabdulmumin71]

Great work brother, how can I get this in writing?

[@kipper1668]

Comment for the algorithm!

[@TakeV]

The framing of this makes me think about cognitive dissonance. I am a colonizer, but I do not want to see myself as one. The options to resolve cognitive dissonance are either to ignore, change the view, or change ones actions. Ignorance is no longer possible, and individual action does not immediately resolve the fundamental material and structural conditions. Thus, the view has to change, and that requires unpacking a whole lotta internalized colonialist views. And that can be really, really painful, but necessary for a better world.

[@alejoflorez3892]

5:55 Good quote

[@hedgehog3180]

for the algorithm.

[@aaronball10]

I’m still very confused. I would likely be John in this case, but I don’t know what to do

[@Rynewulf]

I'd like to know how figures like John Brown and the many emancipation and anti colonial movements amongst coloniser people's figures into this system. It feels like the John's are being sidestepped because of their birth, despite being internationally vital in the real history of the end of the European slavery and the moves to stop acquiring and attempt to undo colony making

[@blessings3154]

Would it be possible to add subtitles?

[@snowflower64]

I like this video, but I think the categorizing of people into discrete categories is itself a colonialist mindset. Being mixed race, I think I’ve at various times been in all 4 of those psychological spaces myself. I think defining categories based on the boundaries the colonizers draw lends legitimacy to the system. In reality I believe these boundaries are neither static nor predestined. The state changes who is and isn’t a colonizer or a colonized based on its current political goals. When I was born a “latine” person in the United States wasn’t “white”. Now a lot of us are white* on paper even as we are constantly targeted and deported. If the lines can shift arbitrarily, then why can’t we take control of the parts we are necessarily delegated the implementation of and try to redraw them? Why define culture by ancestry and geography the way they do? There are people on the other side of the world I have more in common with than my parents, so why define myself by parentage at all?

[@jouthamonisha8143]

food for the algorithm

[@Manyaraz]

understood

[@shinobiighost6946]

"He becomes a reactionary, conservative and a fascist". I would avoid lumping "conservative" in there as being conservative is a mindset where you conserve yourself vs a liberal mindset where you share yourself. Conservative is afraid of and/or dislikes change where a Liberal would embrace it. Conservative is not inherently evil as the way you sorta carelessly threw that in there.

[@lilithmotherofmonsters6055]

Conservatism, as a movement operating within the English language, is inherently bad the way St Andrewdescribed though... That isn't to say all translations of Conservatism into other ideas are equally bad, but we *need* to watch out for Conservatisms that are problematic and toxic and stay away from them. After all, the Conservatism of my grandparents is *literally* "do a colonialism",

[@shinobiighost6946]

@@lilithmotherofmonsters6055 uuhh no, you're thinking of actual villains and speaking along a narrative. Just because something is labeled as "new" and "progressive" doesn't mean it'll be good for us. That's where being "conservative" about things comes in play. Rather than be religious (which if by your logic means you're a conservative even if you're on the left) about what side you're on people should use the mindsets as tools. Stop using the terms that way, it's "problematic" as you say.

[@lilithmotherofmonsters6055]

@@shinobiighost6946 it's not 'problematic', it acknowledging that the language you speak and think in defines the reality you are able to see, and capital C Conservatism, as a concept in English, distinct from "conservatisms" that have the potential to be ok, is as I have described. That capital C Conservatism is one that refuses to acknowledge that death is inevitable, and in so doing clings to life so hard that it gets warped into something toxic to everything younger, simply because it's younger. And again, not all movements that want the world to stay the same as, or at least similar to, the past have had this done to them. Not all those who want to 'conserve' old ways of being do so in a toxic way, but when those old ways themselves are toxic and those conserving them don't see that? Well that's why St Andrewism didn't throw Conservative in the video carelessly like you thought

[@shinobiighost6946]

@@lilithmotherofmonsters6055 I think we are talking about different things and/do view things differently. I'm speaking from a utilitarian perspective if that helps, my original comment is about avoiding labeling and extremism specifically directed at left side politics(don't worry I'm not oblivious to right side extremism but this video is going to be more left side echo chamber than right). That's what progress would be like right?

[@lilithmotherofmonsters6055]

@@shinobiighost6946 progress looks like you realizing someone like St Andrewism is fully aware of the possibility of the video being viewed like you fear it will be by the left, because you know the ideas in this channel are being set up to be a replacement for Conservatism when St Andrewism gets to be an old man. A replacement that is needed because of toxic shit injected into his culture by colonialism that must be purged for healing to happen in a way that doesn't continue uneccessary generational abuse and trauma And fyi, I'm coming from a post-modern perspective that puts the Oppressed of the earth as the people who should be listened to the most so that they can direct resources in a way that ends Oppression. I'm opposed to Conservatism because it opposes my basic human rights, but not all 'conservatisms' do so, and because of that I'm not against all of them a priori.

[@evolvedape3341]

Could you explain the difference between colonialism and empire?

[@katherinehenley2008]

Excellent education

[@RiverOfWetness468]

What is the painting at 1:45?

[@kyleeames8229]

LAND BACK

[@Farisss92]

@@fallout1953 yes essentially because you guys gotta pay reparations

[@thecr6402]

@@fallout1953 correct... we do not think you should deserve land, lol

[@Pixelnova_]

@@thecr6402 yea those Eastern Europeans really exploited... themselves? They were literally subjugated themselves by foreign powers lol. I guess if their skin is white enough though they’re all colonizers 🤷‍♂️

[@DarkwellorBZ]

@@thecr6402 Lol thank god it isnt you making the decisions. they can do whatever they want...in their homeland. which, for the Anglos, all of England. Not Scotland, not Wales or Cornwall. England. i really dont care what the remaining euros do as long as the highest heads are removed from the oppressed nations.

[@matthewrenn]

Feed the algorithm

[@HotBlasterBot]

Guess I have to understand what kind of privileges I have as a colonizer since, while I don't see myself as desiring an outrageously high standard of living for myself; I can't really tell what I should prepare myself to shed once the revolution comes.

[@cessatiolux6250]

Your blood. They hate you for being white. Let go of your self hatred.

[@larpingastheduchyofburgund337]

🩸

[@BillyBasd]

I'm not shedding my blood. Come and take! I want a just world, I'm a cis white guy in the USA. The rest of the world I want for allies in the Great Awakening. If I and my family are chosen to be purged, I will fight with all my power Choose carefully between vengeance and forgiveness

[@KootFloris]

Beautiful, but I'd like to add two groups. 1. The OPPORTUNISTS who are willing to totally abuse their own people, for the profits and power that can be gained by abusing the situation to the max. We see such figures among both colonisers and colonised, think corrupt new 'leaders' in African nations getting rich of their own people. People copying tricks learned from the invaders, and often supported by them. Or take current war & oil industry that may even may incite wars for profit. 2. The DRAFTED PARTICIPANTS. These are local farmers, workers of the colonising nations drafted into being a suppressor, but often being abused as the colonised, though rarely aware of it. He's stuffed full of propaganda. We can see this clearly mirrored in how nowadays the MAGA voters in the USA are being propagandised with fears of foreigners, with thinking freedom is having no access to free healthcare, etc. Like the Nazi's they think they're part of a 'master race' and seduced, bribed and forced (check the recent Russian Forced Drafting for new Cannon Fodder) to die for the ideals of the 'owners' (as George Carlin named them).

[@kyuchrome]

WOOW, such a beautiful and well made video. I pray the Palestinian people never lose their hope and uphold their mother’s tongue, their beautiful olive trees and most importantly their language. Decolonization will happen within my lifetime.

[@darkelwin02]

While I agree with the conclusions of this video, where is the psychology? To my knowledge only Fanon was trained in psychology and contributed to it.... but as I recall a lot of that work is actually Psychoanalysis, not Psychology.

[@Mikae1300]

I find myself rather confused by the Colonizer Who Refuses, John, who I would consider to be where I'm at currently. I'm white and I understand I have privilege from that. I'm a colonizer, so I get benefits from the state that the colonized don't get, and I guess any other benefits that come from that. That said though, I have a lot of trouble picturing what would fundamentally change about my life in a decolonized world. I'd like to abolish the state, so I guess I would lose benefits from that, but then there would be some sort of anarchist support there I would think. I don't own any property to give back to colonized people. I don't make much money and live in a small apartment without living beyond my means. Would living equally in a decolonized world mean I would live in a smaller apartment with less money? I would have to learn some other languages? Pay a reparations tax? That all seems reasonable, but I don't think that's what is being talked about here. So yeah, I don't really understand what the point of being a John is. I guess Johns are just better off getting out of the way? Should I move to another country in Europe and just be free of the colonizer label? I don't know if that would really help or not. I didn't ask to be born a colonizer or to be white. I wouldn't say I have white guilt, but sometimes I really wish I weren't white--like the world be easier to understand then. =( It just feels like my existence is a problem, and any effort I might put into helping indigenous people with decolonization wouldn't really be of any benefit. IDK. I guess I just feel lost and confused more than anything.

[@otherperson]

So a few things. First, I don't believe that decolonization necessarily has to mean a demographic shift in population (although that might have something to do with it). With a stateless society, given the lack of borders, there would hardly be any way to stop anyone from moving wherever they wanted. There also wouldn't be some tax, and while you'd be making less money, that would be because money has necessarily been abolished. To me, the role of the John is to support the colonized people in struggle in the now. That might include learning a new language, or many, or helping monetarily or in actual *combat*. You would not impose your will, but that does not necessarily mean that you would be at the whim of any colonized person at any given time. The first step, however, would be to research whose land youre on, where they are now, what they believe decolonization would look like, and what they think a John could do to aid them in the process. I think language learning is a pretty universal one though.

[@lilithmotherofmonsters6055]

So I know you say the colonized should go back and learn the Mother Tongue of the People they came from... But wtf Tongue do you learn if your Mother Tongue is that of Colonialism Itself? My current best guest is the Mother Tongue of whatever People used to live on the land you currently occupy via colonialism, but at the same time my Anglo Saxon ass isn't really qualified to throw down the best answer

[@imperatorsage5510]

Feeding algorithm

[@psikeyhackr6914]

What is the psychology of technology? I worked for IBM. One of my fellow employees, a White one, asked me why I wanted a computer at home. I thought the question was rather funny. I did not notice any mention of technology in your video. How much of colonization was only possible because of technology? Ships capable of sailing across oceans. Cannons and guns more powerful than the weapons of the natives. Of course any moron can shoot a machine gun. It is far easier than hitting a target with an arrow at 50 yards. But the advance of technology did not stop. Now some pf the colonizers are afraid of the Artificial Intelligence in their technology. The colonized do not see the point of learning double-entry accounting that most of the colonizers do not know. They are brainwashed consumers.

[@juliotoru]

Who wants to be a millionaire ?

[@jerredhamann5646]

1. With the colonizer that accepts one a lot of the rascism was not of the native is a sub-human degenerate but a lot quite commonly among the higher ups the white mans burden of they are fellow humans that must be introduced to the enlightenment and western technology so they may benifit variety. Also a lot of them had surprisingly progessive views on the natives as they in it for the money and lived in a world where military conquest was normal and acceptable. U can have for example the younger son an aristocratic family that acually in interested in the native culture and holds progessive views on race for the time go over there marry a local princess and then colonize the shit and then use his family's vast wealth and support of the government to colonize the hell out of the entire region exactly this happened several times. Going over there and staking some land was a way for a tenant farmer to move up in life at a time when few other prospects existed. India was ultimately colonized by a private corperation. 2. The colonizer that denies i dont really can blamed because u cant pick the society ur born in and societal change is long hard and messy so the average joe is forced into a position of doing the best they can in the nation they live. Also in every society that was a colonial power the was a large anti colonial movement supported mainly by the lowwer classes as basically they were the ones that would have to fight in the colonial brush fire wars and recieve none of the gains but the poor dont get to rule. To me it seems kinda like saying the serfs were agents of fuedalism because they lived in a fuedal society. 3. Similar to 2.t he colonizer that accepts i believe more has to due with assimilate or be punished if they rule u now it benifits u as an individual to tow the line so A dont get punished and B mabey even have an a chance to move up in life the colonies were often run in large part by natives that were the appointed lap dogs of the colonial overlords if the option is brutal repression or some ammount of normalicy and some chance of advancement what are 90% of people going to choose? Most people are not willing to take the risk. 4. Decolonization is an admirable goal but i hope ur in it for long haul the main barrier is being ruled for generations is going to have long lasting social and economic implications. More than likely the changes and developments will take a long time to deal with the colonial legacy, but many nations have made great progress so keep pushing.

[@andrewswift2683]

I'm don't think colonizers is the best word to describe what you are talking about. Domination is probably more accurate, and more reflective of the fact that powerful groups of people have conquered and subjugated weaker groups of people since the Cro-magnons replaced the Neanderthals. In each case, the stronger party imposes its systems; cultural, political, financial, linguistic, and spiritual upon the other. It has been practiced by every race in every region of the globe and today's most obvious example being the cultural genocide of the Tibetans and Uigurs at the hands of the Han Chinese. It is the human social version of Darwinian natural selection. We can imagine a world where the dinosaurs did not go extinct and where we all have scales but it is naive to think that this phenomenon can be done away with. The fact that you advocate for replacing the current world order is just another example of "colonizer" mentality, no matter whether you believe in the moral superiority of your view. Where we go from here is probably where we went from last time.

[@ruddyman4928]

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[@brittanyhayes1043]

Being conservative dose not mean you’re fascist. Left leaning people can become fascist too.

[@oraclex2976]

Why are the formerly colonized now flocking to the land of the colonizers? Can't do without them?

[@mjolninja9358]

That’s because the resources of the formerly colonized country is now in the Colonizer’s land. Places in Africa, Americas, Australia etc. never really needed to go out and kill people because they’re already rich with resources, the colonization happened because some places lacked the resources.

[@korppi164]

Our Western society is based on competence, not tyrannical hierarchies. You get ahead if you’ve got what it takes.

[@sylvia5400]

You only say that because you don't know anything about history.

[@Kalahridudex]

@@sylvia5400 overwhelming majority of societies practiced nepotism like it's the honorable thing to do. The West if one of the few societies that practices meritocracy as a rule.

[@dandankokorohikareteku2620]

​@@Kalahridudexmeriotracy doesn't mean anything , humans are born unequal , parents inheritance for example

[@spikedpsycho2383]

NGO and charitable groups have been trying to help lift Africa out of poverty and starvation for 70 years. It is a waste of time, everything is just the same or worse because there is just no work ethic among the native population so they cannot build on what they started. Tribal societies do not build civilizations. If the populations of Iceland and Haiti were swapped,what would happen?Within 5 years Haiti would be a tropical paradise, and Iceland would be human free because they would all have frozen or starved to death after the first winter! Former colonies, were left with superior infrastructure, legal and economic systems, and trade connections to the wider world to that of any other colony. All of the ex-colonies that were once under the empire have been running on its fumes since obtaining their independence, and all of them have been run into the ground over the last 70 years while still maintaining a dismal yet higher rank among the nations of that continent.

[@john-lenin]

The only thing worse than being colonized is not being colonized. Africa and India and Asia would be hundreds of petty tribal kingdoms living in relative squalor and constantly at war with each other - unless of course one grew strong enough to colonize or exterminate the others.

[@john-lenin]

How about less whining about being a victim and more building on your bipartite history?

[@TheLily97232]

I just came from a video about France colonial empire existing today through Outre-Mer where the comments were sad that the KZbinr showed colonization as something bad. The guys who helped putting forward the anti colonialist mindset we know today ARE LITERALLY FROM FRENCH COLONIES

[@undeadblizzard]

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[@sydknee6443]

Thank you for another awesome video.