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tomenzgg@midwest.social 6 days agoYou’d be correct; a country which suffered from colonialism by a European country; the effects of which continue today. Therefore, the effects of colonialism by at least one European country is still relevant.
You said colonialism by Europe isn’t relevant in the modern age.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 6 days ago
So you’re claiming France currently owns Haiti?
tomenzgg@midwest.social 6 days ago
Is there a definition of relevant that, for you, doesn’t include the impacts and effects of the thing in question?
Are you going to argue to me with a straight face that the only relevant aspects we should be concerned about with colonialism is whether ownership is current and active?
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 6 days ago
Now you’re asking me how I might agree that not having any colonies can still count as colonization?
tomenzgg@midwest.social 6 days ago
If you strip the land of resources when you owned it such that people can no longer use it, your colonization of that land – while in the past – is still relevant to the people now trying to eke out an existence on that land.
Playing prescriptionist with definitions isn’t going to absolve Europe of the still ongoing effects that their colonization has caused.