emsenn on Nostr: Settlers love the idea of resistance. They’ll talk about it, read about it, ...
Settlers love the idea of resistance.
They’ll talk about it, read about it, workshop it.
They’ll donate to the right causes, vote for the right candidates, wear the right slogans.
But the second resistance moves—the second it acts outside their framework—suddenly, it’s too much.
🔹 It’s too aggressive
🔹 It’s too disorganized
🔹 It’s not strategic enough
As if the best strategy for survival is always the one that looks polite from the outside.
As if decolonization is a debate club, and not an ongoing struggle against a genocidal system.
Because here’s the thing: settlers don’t just resist resistance—they resist any approach to resistance that doesn’t center their logic.
📌 If they wouldn’t do it, it must be wrong.
📌 If it doesn’t fit their morality, it must be unethical.
📌 If it doesn’t lead to a stable world where they still have a place, it must be a failure.
Which is why they feel so comfortable dictating the terms of the fight from the safety of their position inside empire.
But let’s be real: survival isn’t a moral question.
💀 It’s not about what looks righteous to people who never have to choose between hunger and a broken window.
💀 It’s not about what feels fair to people who have never fought a war they didn’t start.
💀 It’s not about making sure settler liberals don’t have to wrestle with guilt when they read the news.
It’s about not dying under a system that was designed to kill you.
And settlers hate that framing.
Because the moment you stop making your resistance palatable to them—
the moment you stop treating their approval as a necessary condition for action—
you make it clear that their logic, their morality, their entire way of deciding what is and isn’t justifiable...
doesn’t matter.
And they can’t stand that.
So they do what they always do:
They divide resistance into two categories—
✅ Acceptable resistance—non-threatening, slow, symbolic.
❌ Unacceptable resistance—anything that forces a shift before they’re ready.
They tell you to be patient.
To be peaceful.
To wait.
To follow their rules—
the same rules that made this world unlivable in the first place.
But here’s the truth: no resistance in history ever won by making sure its enemies were comfortable.
📌 The world is burning.
📌 Settlers are still debating whether it’s okay to inconvenience their neighbors.
If you want to fight for a future that isn’t just an extension of settler logic—
if you want to fight for a future at all—
stop waiting for their permission.
They were never going to give it.
They’ll talk about it, read about it, workshop it.
They’ll donate to the right causes, vote for the right candidates, wear the right slogans.
But the second resistance moves—the second it acts outside their framework—suddenly, it’s too much.
🔹 It’s too aggressive
🔹 It’s too disorganized
🔹 It’s not strategic enough
As if the best strategy for survival is always the one that looks polite from the outside.
As if decolonization is a debate club, and not an ongoing struggle against a genocidal system.
Because here’s the thing: settlers don’t just resist resistance—they resist any approach to resistance that doesn’t center their logic.
📌 If they wouldn’t do it, it must be wrong.
📌 If it doesn’t fit their morality, it must be unethical.
📌 If it doesn’t lead to a stable world where they still have a place, it must be a failure.
Which is why they feel so comfortable dictating the terms of the fight from the safety of their position inside empire.
But let’s be real: survival isn’t a moral question.
💀 It’s not about what looks righteous to people who never have to choose between hunger and a broken window.
💀 It’s not about what feels fair to people who have never fought a war they didn’t start.
💀 It’s not about making sure settler liberals don’t have to wrestle with guilt when they read the news.
It’s about not dying under a system that was designed to kill you.
And settlers hate that framing.
Because the moment you stop making your resistance palatable to them—
the moment you stop treating their approval as a necessary condition for action—
you make it clear that their logic, their morality, their entire way of deciding what is and isn’t justifiable...
doesn’t matter.
And they can’t stand that.
So they do what they always do:
They divide resistance into two categories—
✅ Acceptable resistance—non-threatening, slow, symbolic.
❌ Unacceptable resistance—anything that forces a shift before they’re ready.
They tell you to be patient.
To be peaceful.
To wait.
To follow their rules—
the same rules that made this world unlivable in the first place.
But here’s the truth: no resistance in history ever won by making sure its enemies were comfortable.
📌 The world is burning.
📌 Settlers are still debating whether it’s okay to inconvenience their neighbors.
If you want to fight for a future that isn’t just an extension of settler logic—
if you want to fight for a future at all—
stop waiting for their permission.
They were never going to give it.