1. El Colonialismo como Violencia Fundacional y Estructural.
Esta sección aborda la idea de que la violencia no es un subproducto, sino el fundamento mismo de los proyectos coloniales y la formación de naciones. Se enfatiza que el robo de tierras, la esclavitud y el genocidio son elementos inseparables de la historia de países como Estados Unidos y Canadá.
- America was founded on political violence. Native american genocide, the kidnapping of africans, the raping of slaves, two wars against britain, etc.
- The founding of this country cannot be disentangled from the violence towards black and indigenous people that colonizers meted out all the while drafting lofty documents about all men being created equal.
- Colonialism is a force that has radically transformed the world, sowing seeds of gender-based violence, environmental degradation and economic and social inequality. Settler colonialism must end.
- Fanon states that colonialism is not a machine capable of thinking, a body endowed with reason. It is naked violence and only gives in when confronted with greater violence.
2. La Continuidad de la Violencia y sus Manifestaciones Modernas.
Se discute cómo la violencia colonial no es un evento del pasado, sino una realidad continua que ha cambiado de forma, manifestándose en sistemas legales, políticas de asimilación, crisis de personas desaparecidas y violencia de género.
- On indigenouspeoplesday, remember the violence never stopped. Colonization just changed its form, from stolen land to stolen children, erased histories, and borders that criminalize the very people this land belongs to. We are still witnessing the same injustice.
- The residential school system, the 60s scoop, and the asylum system in ontario created cross-generational state violence against first nations, métis, and inuit families and their nations. Yet, these vile colonial structures are not dead or in the past.
- My heart aches. This is an epidemic of indigenous people going missing and then ending up murdered, especially indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit. The community deserves better than colonial violence.
- 3 naming colonial violence not as history but as ongoing 4 learning and unlearning in the service of justice let us honor the stewards, survivors, and visionaries today and always.
3. La Figura de Colón y la Justificación de la Brutalidad.
Cristóbal Colón es un punto focal de la discusión, simbolizando el inicio de la brutalidad, la esclavitud y el genocidio en las Américas. Se menciona cómo el Día de Colón (Columbus Day) es visto como una glorificación de la violencia y la negación histórica.
- Christopher columbus was a slaver, colonizer, and genocidal tyrant. His name is everywhere, not by accident, but by design. Hes honored because his violence built the foundation this country still stands on.
- Columbus was a murderous genocidal rapist, sex trafficker and slaver. His legacy is violence and brutality. Never, ever, celebrate him.
- Columbus actions marked by brutality. He oversaw acts of murder, torture, enslavement, forced labor, kidnapping, and widespread violence.
- The logic of seeing certain people as disposable and subhuman, which justified columbuss crimes, still drives state violence today.
4. El Retorno de la Violencia Imperial al Centro (Boomerang).
Se analiza la teoría del "boomerang imperial", donde las tácticas de deshumanización y violencia desarrolladas en las colonias son eventualmente redirigidas y aplicadas contra las poblaciones dentro de la metrópoli, a menudo manifestándose como fascismo o autoritarismo.
- The horrors of western imperialism with its dehumanisation and violence were, ultimately redirected into europe in the form of fascism.
- I dont think the american people are going to rise up any time soon but i do think that colonial violence is returning to the imperial core in quite a significant way, and thats, you know, going to have consequences.
- Damn, its like the violence of imperial conquest is being turned inwards upon the metropole or some shit.
- Colonialism works to decivilise the coloniserto brutalise degrade himto awaken buried instinctsto covetousness, violence, race hatred, moral relativism.