New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 74
Recent events in the Middle East, namely between Israel and “Palestine,” have thrust the Postcolonial Theory branch of Woke Marxism into stark and stunning relief in a very short time. The world is quickly learning that “decolonization” is always meant to be violent, and the Islamist jihad against Israel is a project supported by the whole of the global Left, including especially the Woke Marxist Left throughout the West. People are horrified, rightly, but what’s needed is clarity. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains the Woke mindset on settler-colonialism and tries to help make sense of what appears to be violent Woke madness once again. Join him for clarity.
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Supporting Israel at this point is supporting genocide.
Go ahead – try to conflate it with the demon of Wokeness.
It won’t work. It’s called Guilt by Association – a pathetic fallacy beneath Lindsay (I thought).
Many good people, increasingly from the right and increasingly Jewish, Oppose Israel on moral grounds against the genocide.
Really important understanding the far left hook up with jihad is really important.
So when will the decolinisation idiots hold the arabs in North Africa accountable ?
We really need to stand up to the neo marxist critical theory post modern drek.
Its hard trying to control deep anger from the total BS they spew .
“Towards the end of the 19th century… the [Muslim Turkish] Ottomans sought to homogenize the population of their [Islamic] empire to construct a new geographic, historic, and demographic reality. This necessitated the extermination of indigenous peoples such as the Greeks in Asia Minor, the Assyro-Chaldeans in Upper Mesopotamia, the Armenians and Syriac Arameans in the eastern provinces and Cilicia, and the Mount Lebanese in the Levant.
[D]uring the First World War… extermination could be put into execution, the Germans having sided with Turkey. Massacres and deportations nearly ended the Christian presence in all the provinces of the [Islamic] Ottoman Empire… No longer able to carry out the bloody deportations as in Armenia and Upper Mesopotamia, the Ottomans opted for the fomentation of an economic crisis crowned by famine… to obtain the desired demographic change… The Lebanese people had to die, by hunger or by epidemic, to stifle any embryo of uprising or separatist isolationist inclination, as had happened in Armenia.
After the First World War which caused millions of deaths, the various peoples liberated from the Ottoman yoke proceeded to construct their identities based on the revival of language, literature, history, culture, the arts, and mythology… They created the modern versions of Serbian, Armenian, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac and made them official national languages. Only a few decades earlier, they were moribund.
The genocide became Tseghaspanoutioun for the Christians of Armenia and Sayfo (the sword) for those of Upper Mesopotamia. In Lebanon, the genocide which cost the life of half the population was not done by the sword but by famine, hence its name Kafno, or hunger, in the Syriac language of Mount-Lebanon.
“The Kafno Ikon – An Exploration”
Tanya Maria Semaan, 2022
see also: the Farhud (and Edwin Black’s 2010 “The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust”) about the expulsion of Jews from Iraq and from all Arab countries in the mid-20th century — despite Jews living on the lands of those countries for thousands of years, there are no longer any Jews in any of the 57 Islamic nations – the expelled Jews became citizens of Israel
Is the Left making a huge mistake by switching to “the immigrant” as its new “oppressed” group? I worked with a large number of immigrants from Latin America. They are largely Christian, family-oriented, and wanting to pursue “the American Dream.” Even Muslim immigrants stand against the Queer theorists and object to the grooming going on in schools.
Losing a sizable percentage of the Black vote, as well as the Female vote, and now, the Jewish vote, should be a major setback for their revolution. And many of the immigrants, once they see what the Left is trying to do, will vote for Conservatives.
We have seen two major types of people moving around. One is forced by natural forces – mostly climate. And the other is somewhat forced by violent conflict or other forms of oppression.
The Puritans came over to America and took advantage of the indigenous people (also giving them new diseases that some died from) because they were being persecuted in England.
The Jews who fled to Israel (Palestine) were being pushed out of Europe.
The South and Central Americans fleeing their homes and heading north face criminal gangs and criminal governments in their home regions.
There are relatively few (but not insignificant) examples of persons being paid to go to another land and take over there. Spain, with its church, seems to have indulged in that quite a bit.
Earth itself has always been a colony for some off-planet group or groups. It is currently a penal colony, though few here recognize it as such.
So while the Woke attakcs against “whiteness” can be seen to be specious, our response to them risk the same fault.