Was sich radikalisiert hat sind die Offenheit, mit der Gedanken, die schon ewig rassistischer Konsens waren, aber liberal verpackt wurden, ausgesprochen werden UND die Sichtbarkeit der Gegenwehr gegen diesen Konsens seitens "Stadtbild-Verpestern" selbst.

Etc etc. Actively reconnecting with our place in and dependence on nature and each other as one of many urgent decolonial practices is a very important topic that I care a lot about. It's not my idea, it's what I've learned from my Indigenous colleagues and comrades, and I will keep talking about it

Much like how people are also naturally drawn towards spirituality and end up in Christian cults because of it, we can observe the appeal that these things have and their core benefits, and try to offer our own options that aren't founded on hierarchy, control, and patriarchal/racial dominance

The fact that influential right-wing grifters weaponize people's natural instincts towards wanting to be in the forest and desire to "go back" to what they see as a simpler, less shitty version of society than the one we live in is a problem, but it's one that reveals opportunities for the left

...the experience of a culture of relatedness between the Land and the People and are only looking at it on a conceptual level is hard. Settler colonialism literally has tried to destroy Indigenous Peoples' Ways and connection to the Land. That's not some made up 'replacement theory'. 2/2

Eternal/beyond history vs. Historicized/finite. And these seem to be co-constituitive in the very making of a memory culture centered around singularity and redemptive, eternal, colonial statehood.

not least of colonial/Indigenous genocide, which would never find a similar centrality in any national conscience and will not—not because of lacking severity but bc colonialism is ongoing. The temporal premises & stakes in memorialization are different, almost oppositional, because of that.

I always wanted to counter that, with respect, not pushing my opinion on ppl’s perceptions/hopes. But it dawned on me & is being brutally confirmed in recent years why all that praise is unjustified. Why hopes are being abused bc Germany’s culture of affirmation always entailed an inherent denialism