BLM Endorses Terrorism, To The Surprise Of No One

If you haven’t been on a college campus recently, it can be easy to underestimate how completely incomprehensible everything has become. It’s like traveling to a foreign country. Really, they’re not even using the English language to educate students anymore. Instead, academics believe that their job is to constantly come up with new, overwrought terminology that doesn’t mean anything. They’re inventing terms like “environmental racism” and “racialized communities” and “housing justice” and “lived experience” and “minoritized peoples” and so on. And then, academics will often string all of these nonsense terms together, creating a disfigured, lovecraftian patchwork of wokeness. They’ll say things like, “Minoritized people and racialized communities, seeking housing justice, must wrestle with their lived experience of environmental racism.” And then everyone will nod, like they just heard something profound. It’s Mad Libs posing as scholarship.

It’s not hard to mock these professors, and point out what a scam all of this is. And all too often, I’ve done exactly that. At the same time, we shouldn’t ignore everything that’s going on in academia, because the truth is that some of these terms — which might seem meaningless to the sane population — actually have a very real meaning to leftists. Take the idea of “decolonization,” which became a very popular topic in universities starting in the 1960s. This is a word that, on its own, without context, could mean pretty much anything. What does it mean to “decolonize” the United States, for example? Does it mean we need to recite land acknowledgements all the time? Does it mean we need to physically leave our property? Does it mean we need to be more mindful of our microaggressions towards “indigenous folks”?

Reasonable people can disagree on what exactly the word “decolonization” means. But all along, leftists have known exactly what “decolonization” meant. The faculty members who have taught students about the importance of “decolonization” for the past few decades have understood the word perfectly. “Decolonization” means dismantling western civilization through violence. It means killing any race, creed, or political opponent who stands in their way. In 1961, the Marxist political philosopher Frantz Fanon was explicit about this: “Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon,” he wrote. “Decolonization is quite simply the replacing of a certain ‘species’ of men by another ‘species’ of men.”

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This is not some fringe understanding of “decolonization.” Leftists have been taught that this process, and all the violence it entails, is necessary and appropriate given the supposed evils of colonization. Students at most major universities have been told this for decades, and now those students are in positions of power in various industries and disciplines. This ideology has corrupted everything. A couple of years ago, a researcher writing in the Lancet, which is supposedly a medical journal, published a paper called “Navigating the violent process of decolonisation in global health research.” Here’s what the researcher, named Muneera A Rasheed, wrote: “Historically, decolonisation has always been a violent process and global health might experience the same. Disrupting and calling out neo-colonial practices requires courage to bear the cost that comes with doing so.”

As of this week, predictably, this researcher is using her social media feed to explain the violence in Israel as an example of “decolonization.” And she’s not the only one. We showed you many examples of this the other day. After Hamas massacred men, women and children in Israel this weekend — the Right was shocked and horrified. But many on the Left weren’t surprised at all. They saw the attack as an example of “decolonization,” and they were numb to it, if not outwardly supportive. 

Many university student groups came out with statements making this very clear. The president of the student bar association at NYU Law School sent a schoolwide email saying Israel bears “full responsibility” for the massacre because of its role in perpetuating “settler colonialism.” This is someone the students at NYU Law elected to serve as their representative. And by the way, this person uses “they/them” pronouns, identifies as nonbinary, and changed her name just last year. How long would this student last if you dumped her in Gaza? Probably not very long.

But irony doesn’t register with fundamentalists. All they care about is their ideology. That’s why, at the University of Virginia, a student group described the murder of Jews a “step toward a free Palestine” and a win for “colonized people everywhere.”

Everywhere you looked on social media, you could find leftists using this same language about decolonization and colonizers. 

Here for example was the reaction of one Leftist who couldn’t understand why more people on the Right weren’t aware of the meaning of “decolonization.” Watch:

Leftist says that you are engaging in petty “respectability politics” if you object to Hamas raping and murdering civilians

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— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 10, 2023

It’s like she’s speaking a different language from every sane person in the United States. “Oh, you didn’t know that decolonization meant killing children? You didn’t know it meant mowing down teenage girls at a rave, and shooting elderly women in their homes? What did you think it meant?”

This is how most young people think in this country, believe it or not. YouGov just published an incredible survey on this. They found that, as of October 9th, more than 76% of U.S. adults believe Hamas is deliberately striking Israeli civilian areas. Now, that’s an obviously low percentage, since a couple days before that survey was conducted, Hamas committed the mass murder of Israeli civilians on camera. But it’s still an overwhelming majority of people over the age of 75. If you go to U.S. adults between the ages of 18 to 29, though, only 32% of adults believe that Hamas is targeting Israeli civilian areas. And just 44% of Americans aged 45 to 65 think that’s happening.

Some of that may be ignorance of what’s happening. But it’s hard not to conclude that a lot of these young people believe that Israeli targets aren’t civilian areas. They’ve bought into the “decolonization” theory, which states that colonizers are effectively combatants. They’re fair game, just because they exist. This is yet more evidence that we are witnessing, once again, an esoteric academic theory trickling down throughout society, after beginning in the university system. And now, it’s openly being used to justify actual, real-world brutality.

We saw this with BLM a few years ago. Now they’re back at it. They’re using the theory-driven language of modern academia in order to support mass slaughter. BLM Grassroots, for example, just posted that very quote:

“As Black people continue to fight to end militarism and mass incarceration in our own communities, let us understand the resistance in Palestine as an attempt to tear down the gates of the world’s largest open air prison. … We see clear parallels between Black and Palestinian people. … We, too, dream of a world where our people may live freely on decolonized land.”

So they want Hamas-style terrorist attacks in this country. They’d love to see “colonizers” raped and murdered in their homes. And just in case there was any doubt about that, BLM Chicago, just uploaded a photo of a paraglider with a Palestinian flag, along with the words, “I Stand With Palestine”:

The BLM chapter in Chicago just posted this in support of Hamas. pic.twitter.com/oLA1MwzoVO

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) October 10, 2023

It’s a direct reference to the Hamas terrorists who just flew into the rave in Israel and began executing hundreds of people. For a lot of people on the Right, that post was a shock. It was hard for many people to grasp that the notion that “decolonization” could possibly mean the murder and rape of civilians. But it shouldn’t have been hard to grasp. For years, the Left has portrayed BLM as a “decolonizing” force. As BLM rioters torched stores and police stations and murdered innocent people, the media characterized this violence as a way to decolonize the West. The New York Times, for example, published an op-ed proudly reporting that, “Partly riding the global surge of Black Lives Matter mobilizations, calls for decolonization have swept Europe’s former imperial metropoles.”

This is why BLM, from the beginning, called Israel a genocidal state. It’s why they put abolishing the nuclear family in their official platform. And it’s why the entire corporate media embraced them. In reality, BLM had nothing to do with improving the lives of black people. A lot more black people died after the George Floyd riots than were dying before it. The point of BLM was to act as foot soldiers for “decolonization.” That means eliminating Israel. It means eliminating white people in America. Most people on the Left understood that at the time, they could read between the lines. But a lot of people on the Right, including high-ranking politicians, somehow didn’t see any of this.

That was an oversight, to put it mildly. And it was an unforgivable one. It didn’t happen simply because leaders on the Right neglected to listen in on college lectures. It didn’t happen simply because they failed to go back and research the origins of decolonization theory. It happened because, at the outset, many on the Right immediately accepted the false premise that “colonization” was somehow a bad thing. But that’s ludicrous.

No matter what leftists meant when they say they want to “decolonize” the West, the Right should have opposed it on principle. That’s because colonization was good. It was the process of introducing the rule of law, public health, and human dignity to this entire hemisphere. Before colonization, the natives were ripping the hearts out of children as offerings to their gods. And, by the way, I say “natives” — but the tribes that lived on this continent when the conquistadors arrived were, themselves, not native to this continent. They came here and killed whoever was there first. But in any event, conquering them was the right decision, for all of humanity. We’re all living much better lives now because of it.

That’s what colonization means, in practical terms. It means you’re doing a lot better now, than you would have if colonization had never occurred. That’s clear. And after the massacres in Israel this week, and the shameful and brazen response from many corners of the Left, no serious person can dispute what “decolonization” means, either. It refers to a genocidal ideology that we’ve let fester for far too long. And at this point, the stakes are obvious. Everyone promoting “decolonization” wants to murder civilians not just in Israel, but in every civilized country on the planet. Don’t ignore what they say. Understand that they are your enemy, and the enemy of all civilized people. That’s why, when they call you a colonizer, you should tell them “you’re welcome.” And then you should prepare to defend yourself.

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