cannibality:

as an indigenous person i’ve noticed a consistently colonialist analysis of indigenous people by post-left anti-civ anarchists who keep positing us and our societies as being somehow “outside of civilisation” even though our societies were and are structured by social relations explicable in terms of relations of production and a corresponding ideological superstructure. this is precisely how colonial accounts of our societies have always set us aside as somehow primally “other” and primitivists perform the exact same racist, reductionist maneuver, simply adding ‘and I think that’s a good thing’ to the end of it.

these people cite racist european anthropologists who say shit like our societies are “passionately committed to violence” and then act all outraged when we point out this is the exact same colonial, racist nonsense that imperialists have always been saying about indigenous people, and their own ideological relation to the racist lies they’re telling about us don’t make those things no longer racist or no longer lies.