When is an indigenous person not indigenous? When they are not declared “colonizers” of course, even if they’ve conquered, displaced, or even wiped out others!
properly used, “indigenous” doesn’t mean “had an ethnogenesis somewhere” it means “was colonised, or is under threat of colonisation”. indigeneity isn’t something that exists in a vacuum independent of colonialism, the french aren’t indigenous to france https://t.co/KRBWshwY7G
— 🔻kalinka 🪂 (@kitschmusik) November 25, 2023
You see, one can only achieve the lofty status of “oppressed” when an “oppressor oppressed you op pressingly”. The Mongols conquered and raped across Eurasia. The Aztecks conquored much of Meso-America and engaged in human sacrifice. The Bantu conquered much of Africa and even wiped out earlier groups. The Inca conquored pro-Queer people and slaughtered them. But they are not considered “colonizers”, so it was just one people following their own ways of knowing and culture when they raped, murdered, and committed genocide and rape! Only Western Civilization and all White people (despite many White Euorpeans having been conquored and oppressed) can be conquorers because only White people imposed “Whiteness” as a “System of Oppression”—it is they who transformed the Mongols, Aztecks, Bantu, and Inca as “indigenous” as the thesis of Whiteness caused the antithesis of Ingigenousness!
Similary, those White Europeans could never be considered indiginous to Europe because the people who came in to rape, oppress, and conquor did not impost “Whiteness” via a “System of Oppression”. Indeed, it is “Whiteness” that causes the actions to become oppressive systems to begin with!
Thus being a “colonizer” has nothing to whether a people colonize or conquer another, that being “indiginous” has nothing to do with being conquered or even wiped out. Only Whites can be colonizers and only non-Whites can be indigenous!
The consequence of this is that Whites have no right to non-European lands… nor their own! After all, trying to keep non-Whites out of Europe makes Whites the “colonizers” in their own land, and the non-Whites coming in the “indigenous”!
Always considered the oppressors and never the oppressed… now that’s a system of oppression.
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