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2026-07-29 14:33 UTC

Optimistic of you to suggest China will treat the native Taiwanese better than the current nation-state of Taiwan. Tribes (such as the Truku) are still forced out of their homes, forbidden traditional hunting rights, and losing aspects of language. …so hey, maybe YOU learning something wouldn’t hurt too (god I hate it when one person starts talking down to another). That said I’ll look into Morocco. P.S There’s also such a thing as a Paper Genocide (erasure). Colonialism is not simply defined as “extermination and ethnic replacement of native people” - I think you’ve confused Genocide and Colonialism. Two related but different concepts… Also you can Colonise non-native people, eg. The Maori, who have only occupied NZ since the 1300s, and then later were Colonised by the British.

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@SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2026-07-29 14:44

I’m not suggesting that one way or another, because the PRC does not currently have control over Taiwan. I do not know how they would treat the native Taiwanese population, because no such thing has happened. You just gave me an example of the current Taiwanese government engaging in ethnic cleansing of the native population, though. Which would seem to me, to undermine the assertion that China’s mere intent to invade Taiwan counts as settler-colonialism, when a much more clear-cut example is happening right now, not under PRC rule. My point is that words mean things. Settler Colonialism isn’t just “when a country I don’t like does a bad thing”, it’s a very specific process of ethnic replacement, carried out in the US and Canada, South Africa, Palestine, Western Sahara, among other places. But China having poor relations with Taiwan over a civil war that never ended, just isn’t an example of settler colonialism.

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