The riots that kicked off in Los Angeles last weekend aren’t just about illegal immigration — they’re part of a revolutionary movement.
“Anti-colonialism” is a term often heard in America’s college classrooms, but off campus virtually no one takes it seriously.
It’s just another harebrained radical academic theory, right?
Yes, the theory is mostly silly — but the practice is deadly serious.
Most Americans and Europeans today feel ashamed of imperialism and racism, and they’re glad to be rid of colonies and slavery.
All that injustice is a thing of the past, however much its legacy haunts our present.
But the ideology of anti-colonialism says otherwise: imperialism and thoroughgoing racial exploitation never ended and never can end, not until “settler” and “colonizer” power is overthrown everywhere.
Israel’s the focus of the most vitriolic and violent anti-colonial rage, but the United States is just as guilty of being a “settler-colonial state.”
Mexico, and indeed all of Latin America, is America’s Palestine, and when illegal immigrants cross the border, when they resist deportation, when they and their allies riot, this is justified resistance to colonialism.
In Palestinian terms, it’s an intifada, or at least the beginnings of one.
Palestinians launched two intifadas against Israel, from 1989 to 1993 and from 2000 to 2005.
These “uprisings” involved rioting, throwing stones at police and soldiers, hurling Molotov cocktails, and violence up to and including suicide bombings, as well as boycotts, strikes and other forms of economic coercion and nonviolent protest.
An American might recognize many of these tactics — though not suicide bombing, thank God — not only as scenes from Los Angeles in recent days but as familiar features from other left-wing protest movements, including those inspired by Black Lives Matter and the killing of George Floyd five years ago.
There isn’t some grand anti-colonialist conspiracy directing all of this, although there are links between one outburst and another: usually the thugs who call themselves “antifa,” for example, are in the vanguard of the provocations.
But a conspiracy isn’t necessary — the ideology is a franchise, teaching anyone who believes in it to immediately identify enemy groups and what slogans to chant when harassing or hurting them.
No radical has to wait for orders to know what to say and do to police or Jews.
On social media, conservatives have joked about the Mexican flags some LA rioters have been waving: after all, if you’re proud of Mexico and its flag, why would you object to being sent back there?
But those flags aren’t being waved to make a point about Mexican territory — they’re making a point about American territory, Los Angeles itself, which in anti-colonialist eyes belongs to illegal aliens at least as much as to any American.
Never mind that Mexico was a product of settler colonization (by Spain) and practiced settler colonization itself in places occupied by indigenous peoples.
Anti-colonialism is not about history or consistent philosophical principles; it’s about power and acquiring it for those who are willing to take to the streets.
That’s one reason the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol four years ago was so shocking, when right-wing supporters of Donald Trump were willing to use a little of the force that left-wing protest movements routinely employ.
The Jan. 6 rioters saw themselves as decolonizing the Capitol, viewing their enemies as a privileged elite who had somehow stolen the election and therefore the country.
That riot didn’t involve arson to the degree seen in Los Angeles these past few days, but it was frightening to the left, the political middle and most conservatives because it showed radicalism could expand into the right.
Too many Americans who would never dream of rioting themselves have for too long simply accepted that left-wing protests are allowed, even expected, to be violent.
They were unprepared for the activist right — not Nazi extremists, but a small subset of otherwise unremarkable Republican voters — to learn from what the anti-colonialist left was allowed to get away with.
The lesson all Americans have to learn now, before it’s too late, is this kind of violence will keep expanding as long as it’s tolerated in the name of anti-colonialism and other progressive causes.
There will be more riots, and then there will be more than riots: the premises of anti-colonialism call for intifada, not just in Palestine but right here in America.
Law, and law enforcement, has to prevail in Los Angeles, but this is a battle that has to be won in the classroom, and the conscience, as well as in the streets.
There will always be some violent extremists, but what sets fire to our cities again and again is the complacency of ordinary Americans who fail to recognize a radical premise when its consequences are broadcast on the nightly news — and world news, too.
Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. To read more by Daniel McCarthy, visit www.creators.com.
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The lesson all Americans have to learn now, before it’s too late, is this kind of violence will keep expanding as long as it’s tolerated in the name of the Democrat Party sponsored anti-colonialism and other progressive causes.
Note how different the world has become just in the last 50 years. The love, obedience and following of Jesus and his word has decreased and the following of Satan and his ways of
Hate, rebellion, crime, immorality, insanity and sexual perversions have become the normal behaviors of those who are disciples of the Democrat Party cult.
Read the Holy Bible the outcome is written in the Bible.
“Most Americans and Europeans today feel ashamed of imperialism and racism,” ??????,,,Like the Chinese, Japanese, Hispanics and Muslims were as pure as snow when conquering and enslaving their captive nations with the sword. The European Spaniards may be blamed for their violence and purges of the people they enslaved in America, but one must remember that up to the Columbian times of Isabel and Ferdinand when the 400-year Muslim occupation of Spain was ended, it took another couple of centuries to deprogram and purge them of the Muslim imperial violence and racism they taught the Spanish people prior to Christianity taking it back. To the winners go the spoils, and whenthese well-organized collectives of the weak secular socialists roaming the American streets today, finally meet the American strong who organize later, but more powerfully, they will fall like wheat under our cycles.
AND In many ways, islam is STILL TRYING TO be conquerers.
ALL because
A) WE stopped worshiping god in school
B) STOPPED saying the pledge of allegiance in school
C) STARTED Demonizing anything masculine, while popping up everything “Feminine”.
D) stopped allowing military clubs, JROTC groups etc, in schools
E) STOPPED PARENTS Spanking their kids!
History has proven that nothing is more lethal to an attacking opponent than a ticked off White Anglo Saxon male with a weapon, or a ticketed black female woman behind the wheel of a car. Just ask the back stabling nuked Japanese still alive after Hiroshima or the Germans that survived WWII. Beguiled white American men designed as nation and women protectors just need to remember who they are and embrace their Viking Heritage that even the Romans were unable to totally tame on a permanent basis. These socialist foreign infiltrators will only succeed temporarily because like evil Hitler they organized first, and was a much better deceiver, but when the honest law-abiding American good and the morally strong organize themselves, it will be curtains for the traitors, like it was case closed for the Fuhrer and the Japanese imperialist Emperor. The illegally immigrated damaged human goods foreign fools all want what we in America have created, but refuse to pay the price in spent honest blood,, sweat, and tears to get it, in any kind of righteous fashion. They should try playing on the right team and all will be well,,,for all.
I do find it strange, when i see pics of these ‘riots’, and such, we often See LOTS OF WHITE WOMEN out there, but few white MEN out there…