Decolonise to me means depopulate. I originally thought the article was talking about removing people from maths (teachers?) Elon musk colonises mars. Elon mu

Decolonise to me means depopulate. I originally thought the article was talking about removing people from maths (teachers?) Elon musk colonises mars. Elon musk decolonises mars. Colony is a fairly A-political word to me. Colonial has political connotations. So if I wanted to talk about the political elements of the times when colonys were a thing would say colonial. And variations of that word. As we are talking about politics, it seems that colonial seems to be the better word. If I wanted to talk about setting off across the Atlantic and setting up a base, I would describe that as a colony, and the continuing process of that would be colonisation. If I wanted to talk about the negative impacts on the indigenous population, I would describe that as colonialism and the process by extension, colonialisation. Googling around I'm obviously in a minority as far as word usage goes, and I'm surprised I haven't come across this before. It still seems strange how decolonise was the work settled on though.