“Settlers” is not the right word here.
"Colonists", "Invaders", "War Profiteers"
“Assholes”
Meh, an asshole is a jerk who cuts you off in traffic. These people are terrorists.
I’m quite partial to thief.
Maybe not but settler Colonialism sure is
People only think "settler" is some kind of benign word if they grew up being told that colonization by settlers was somehow okay.
Settler colonialism has been brutal everywhere it was carried out. The difference here is they use modern tech - and modern media means we get way more details than in the 19th century.
I think it's because (in America) we learn about the early setters in a good light (and completely ignore or whitewash as much of the native genocide and Chattel Slavery) in our history books. We may learn the big strokes like the trail of tears and the underground railroad, but most of the atrocities aren't even discussed. Maybe in a college class if you made it in a good college with progressive teachers.
That makes sense. When I first started researching the history of US colonization it took me ages to twig that half of it's filed under cute things like "Westward expansion".
I'm not sure about the current state of the science but there were a bunch of studies that showed that first contact with Europeans had transmitted smallpox as early as 1520 which over the next couple hundred years wiped out maybe 50% or more of the native population in advance of colonization such that later arriving Europeans had the mistaken impression that the continent had always been largely empty when some estimates put the native population pre-colonization at 120 million or more.
Scum fits nicely I think, but harsher words also apply.
Death to colonizers
Yes yes, humans deleting the competition and taking their lands just like it's always been. Why are people so offended by something we have been doing since time immemorial? /S
A lot of those look like roads to water tanks with the tanks being obvious in before and after images, just the roads having higher contrast with vegetation around. Clearly a few new roads though.
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