Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@galad" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>galad</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@notwithstanding" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>notwithstanding</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://libera.site/channel/martin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>martin</span></a></span></p><p>&gt;&gt; It gets worse when colony is inflected to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colonizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonizer</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonization</span></a>. </p><p>… as in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IsraeliColonizers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliColonizers</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IsraeliColonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliColonization</span></a> </p><p>Because now instead of putting pejorative connotations on land, one would be putting those connotations on people or nations in the sense of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BritishColonizers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishColonizers</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FrenchColonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrenchColonization</span></a>. </p><p>In that latter sense, "Israeli Colonizers" and "Israeli Colonization" is simply nonsense. Where is the "home country" for this group, if not <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Judea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judea</span></a>?</p>