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The word colonialism is a pejorative. The tone of the word in modern language is extremely negative. The point being made is that the word is so negative that t

by AlanSE 7y ago

The word colonialism is a pejorative. The tone of the word in modern language is extremely negative. The point being made is that the word is so negative that the commenter had to go as far as nazis to find another word that is worse.

fit2rule 7y ago
Colonialism is negative for the aborigines. It is a form of totalitarianism. It is not a positive thing, unless you actually are a 'colonialist' and thus privileged to its advances - not to be confused with the lesser 'colonist', which are more often than not the ones chopping all the lumber, i.e. doing the work of it. There are certain religious groups for which the colony is everything...
hrktb 7y ago
The word is pejorative because it’s a bloody move. But I think when people compare colonialism to nazis, they should really separate the economic/political/military move of taking over another country, and what happened from there in some countries which was religious/moral/ethical deeds (I mean by that the slavery, objectification of humans, genocides, cleansing, intentional famines, drug trades etc.) I personally care about that distinction because the later part didn’t stop when colonialism was over, and it didn’t happen that wildly either in a lot of colonies through history. What was done by Belgians in Congo was not “colonialism”, I see it as something way more ethically evil and proper to the Belgian culture of the time. To get back to the balloons, the concept that was described was giant companies using their resources to capture whole captive markets in developping countries and grab mindshares+ad revenue on relatively untouched population. I could totally see the parallel with european companies getting a foot in Asia and extensively use their resources and technology advantage to take over whole markets and become large enough to get the governments under their feet.

by AlanSE 7y ago

fit2rule 7y ago

Colonialism is negative for the aborigines. It is a form of totalitarianism. It is not a positive thing, unless you actually are a 'colonialist' and thus privileged to its advances - not to be confused with the lesser 'colonist', which are more often than not the ones chopping all the lumber, i.e. doing the work of it. There are certain religious groups for which the colony is everything...

hrktb 7y ago

The word is pejorative because it’s a bloody move. But I think when people compare colonialism to nazis, they should really separate the economic/political/military move of taking over another country, and what happened from there in some countries which was religious/moral/ethical deeds (I mean by that the slavery, objectification of humans, genocides, cleansing, intentional famines, drug trades etc.) I personally care about that distinction because the later part didn’t stop when colonialism was over, and it didn’t happen that wildly either in a lot of colonies through history. What was done by Belgians in Congo was not “colonialism”, I see it as something way more ethically evil and proper to the Belgian culture of the time. To get back to the balloons, the concept that was described was giant companies using their resources to capture whole captive markets in developping countries and grab mindshares+ad revenue on relatively untouched population. I could totally see the parallel with european companies getting a foot in Asia and extensively use their resources and technology advantage to take over whole markets and become large enough to get the governments under their feet.