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The book by J. Sakai, not the type of person, hence the capitalization. There are people who say it's too divisive.

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[-] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Random side point, but look at all our anti-imperialist works: nearly all of them depict the struggles against colonialism. Settler's is unique, because it shows the other side: it holds a mirror up to the culture and history of the colonizer nation: what are his institutions, what is his history, how has he acted and treated people.

In movies like star wars, the anti-imperialist struggle is told through the eyes of colonized, while the colonizers are depicted as mindless automatons ala storm troopers, and soulless military leaders and and killers like vader. I imagine if george lucas had even one storyline focus on the lifestyles of the empire's citizens or aristocracy, or dealt with the more complicated treatment of them being real people and not simply brainless drones, it would've touched too close to home and offended euro-amerikkkans, when depicting the Vietnam vs USA metaphor.

Love star wars obviously, but I can't think of a single work of fiction that deals with the other side of settler-colonialism, and the benefits it brings to the colonizer's lifestyles.

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