Settlers is just the white washed euphemism for colonizers.
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yucandu@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I feel like they should stop calling them “settlers”. “Settler” implies the little villagers in Civ or Catan, pioneering untamed lands.
These people are invaders. They’re invading someone else’s land. I don’t know where this “settler” word came from but it doesn’t make sense to me and I don’t like it.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Madison420@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I mean no historically settlers are murderers.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Calling them “settlers” is a major part of how all of MSM is complicit in the genocide.
They are terrorists who force people from homes and steal their land.
limer@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
“Barbarian horde” backed by a foreign empire
isaaclw@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I agree, but i also wonder if settler was never a good word, and we just thought it was.
SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Same goes for the “IDF”. In reality they’re the Israeli Occupation Forces, so IOF is much more fitting