A quick explanation of Settlerism by Left-reminders

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The West: *colonizes >75% of the world for centuries as a means of extracting resources and labor, creating the seismic inequality between “first-world” and “third-world” nations that we have today and keeping the latter locked in varying degrees of socio-political turmoil and IMF-imposed neoliberal debt*

People in the Global South: *react to these inequalities and crises by trying to seek out a more comfortable life in the West, where there is generally more stability and better access to resources as a result of that aforementioned centuries-long imperialism*

People in the West: Um Why are all these gross foreigners trying to destroy Western culture? You don’t see me going to their countries demanding safe spaces for white people, do you? They should fix their own problems in their own countries Listen to Hillary and Obama: they need to get over imperialism, sweaty