"does anyone else detect a slight colonial narcissism"
if you want people to pay attention to you, speak like you aren't judging a fine wine at a party.
I mean, what does colonial narcissism even mean? Couldn't she have just said "it sucks how we put so much focus on domesticated animals rather than wild animals?
They’re making their views clearer, because they assume everyone is as dumb as them
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@under_fire - if you _really_ would like to know what is meant by (post)colonial narcissism you could google Frantz Fanon but you might have to buy a book or cross some other paywall to get deeper into it.
When you use big words without knowing what the fuck you're talking about just to sound smart to strangers on the internet
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When you expect a person probably talking to his/her peer group to use terms and concepts that you, (outside that peer group) can understand, just to sound like a relatable buddy guy to _your_ peer group which is probably simply annoyed by complicated words they don't use at all cause they're not elitist poofters.
Does anyone else detect a slight white guilt in the amount of work far left leaning activists put into attacking western culture?
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I don't know about any of that, I was commenting on your anti-intellectualism and not on anything racial, or western, for that matter. In fact that Low Arctic person in the meme didn't even mention white, that was Bearzerker. Kinda touched a whining reflex there... and here.
By looking at her Twitter and the wall of text she reposts she's an Indigenous peoples activist and environmentalist. The post and many others reference colonizing/colonizers, the only colonizers i know of that continually get referenced negatively are white people. It's apparent by other tweets that she's of northern native descent, either canadian or american as i haven't been able to find which but thats neither here nor there, as most north indigenous peoples have only interacted with white people. So i, like the other Twitter user, inferred the post was about white people.
Also, i'm not ant-intellectual. I personally don't care for the use of large words for the sake of coveying superiority as the languege used by her tweet, in my opinion, implied. Even if she is speaking with a peer group she posted in public forum. To expect to not receive any kind of opposite response would be blatantly ignorant if how the internet works.
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Two unrelated facts about me: I'm as white as it can get. I don't sympathize with the idea of colonialism at all and I have no post-colonial loss trauma. So when she talks about colonial narcissism I don't feel addressed at all. Is that because of my slight white guilt?
Also, from the general kind of "opposite response" to people who allegedly use "large words for the sake of conveying superiority" I usually infer anti-intellectualism. That's how the internet works.
So to take offense to the term colonizer or be labeled as such i must sympathize with colonialism and/or feel trauma over dissolution of colonialism? Seems awfully narrow minded to me. I will say i do appreciate the attacks on my intelligence throughout, really does nothing but reinforce preconceived notions.
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"So to take offense to the term colonizer or be labeled as such i must sympathize with colonialism and/or feel trauma over dissolution of colonialism?" - No, you take offense because you get it all wrong and feel addressed in your attribute of being white. That's where your whole confusion starts, and confused people have a tendency to feel attacked. That's a vicious cycle, try and get out of that.
if you want people to pay attention to you, speak like you aren't judging a fine wine at a party.
Also, from the general kind of "opposite response" to people who allegedly use "large words for the sake of conveying superiority" I usually infer anti-intellectualism. That's how the internet works.