How can she be expected to imagine and practise a reality beyond colonial domination while the forces she is trying to imagine beyond remain materially present in the violence affecting her homeland?
... that was what I wanted to contribute to the OP's comment section... because damn, that's... idk, would I sound like a jerk if I said it was that obvious to me what the OP might've been experiencing? and she really needs to be kinder to herself, at least. Or idk...
Lastly, regarding the average USian's out-of-touch online engagement that sometimes has me screaming in frustration: decolonial engagement goes beyond knowing how to identify colonial structures; it's also about refusing to make one's own experience the compulsory reference point through which everybody else's history must be interpreted.
I know that for many people, it's just online interaction, but it reflects what a world without borders might look like if people haven't done the necessary work of deconstructing their own systemic conditioning.
When someone is comfortable showing their ass online because there's a screen separating them from material consequences, what makes anyone think they wouldn't behave the same way without a phone screen separating them from the fists of people overseas? I can easily point to foreigners in Bali as an example, really.
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