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  • I dislike how disenting opinions get downvoted on Lemmy/technology probably more than even on reddit.

    Everything you said is factually correct.

    I disagree that it means they should be banned but they take money from corporations to produce slopaganda, that’s just true, and even beyond that their videos are well animated but the moment they touch a subject you actually know about you realize they are just internet researched videos that go a little more in depth that reading the Wikipedia page but it doesn’t seem they actually understand what they are talking about, which is fine except that’s not what they present themselves as (same with CPG Greg)






  • Because they were literally military outposts put on Africa by conquest, the fact it was 400 years ago and before the modern state of Morroco doesn’t change that.

    I am not in any way legitimizing colonialism

    You might not intent to, but you’re making excuses for why colonialism doesn’t count as colonialism, which is literally what every attempt to legitimize colonialist projects does.

    The examples I picked are because litterally the same arguments are used:

    • Morroco didn’t exists - modern nation-states will make it sound like the land was unused if it wasn’t claimed by another nation-state
    • It was X years ago, just let it go

    If the people living there had a right to self-determination it would be more complicated, but we’ve seen on mainland Spain that the Spanish so not legally or practically believe in the concept.


    Why do you think a European colonial power should get to keep it’s overseas conquests but you don’t expand the same courtesy to China or Israel?


  • Such definition does not apply to Palestine because they’re part of Greater Israel. Those places never have been a colony.

    Such definition does not apply to Tibet because they’re part of China. Those places never have been a colony.

    Such definition does not apply to Réunion because they’re part of France. Those places never have been a colony.


    It’s been over 75 years those territories are part of Israel

    It’s been over 800 years those territories are part of China

    It’s been over 350 years those territories are part of France


    Moreover, it’s not like we’re talking about a region on the other side of the world, those territories do confine with Israel.

    Moreover, it’s not like we’re talking about a region on the other side of the world, those territories do confine with China.


    The problem with legitimizing colonialism is you legitimize all colonialism. The argument that Morocco didn’t exist as a country is literally a zionist talking point for Palestine