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Is Taiwan a settler colonial state? (lemmygrad.ml)
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I remember when I was first learning about settler colonialism, I thought to myself: “Huh, this sounds like Taiwan and Israel” My instincts were correct on Israel, but I never looked too deeply into Taiwan. The fact that the Kuomintang displaced the Austronesian natives is a pretty strong indicator, but is Taiwan really a settler colonial state or are my intuitions wrong?

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[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

There are literally countless indigineous peoples across the entire subcontinent who are discriminated, oppressed and abused by the Indian government, even legally designated as such. There is a literal people's war largely led by rural indigenous people under the Naxal banner to fight against the Indian government. Not just in Kashmir, India is absolutely a settler nation. Nobody knows because the subcontinent is one of the least talked about places on the western internet.