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This is a worry (and a reliable disappointment, but it has circulated prominently online, so people interested in settler colonialism may as well prepare): Samuel Lair, ‘CRT 2.0’, American Mind, 23/01/25

10Feb25

[I was preparing to write a rejoinder when I realise that this guy is not contesting the truth of settler colonialism. He thinks it should not be taught but has nothing against the fact that it is a specific mode of domination and that it is ongoing. This is when I rest my case; I guess I have a better relationship with truth than he does.]

Excerpt: Now that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being exposed as ahistorical indoctrination, a new permutation of neo-Marxist theory is gaining currency in our schools. It’s called postcolonialism. Its stated mission is to fight “settler colonialism,” a term used to describe any society supposedly built upon the oppression and genocide of indigenous people. Examples of “settler societies” include Israel, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Canada, and the United States. The recent student activism against Israel, which denied the country’s right to exist and celebrated terrorist attacks against it, demonstrated the true nature of postcolonialism and its power to inspire hatred on campus. Whereas CRT is largely an American phenomenon, postcolonial ideology developed within a broader global context, emerging out of the various movements to end empire around the world—much as CRT emerged as a mutation of the movement to end racial segregation in America. What the civil rights movement is to CRT, the decolonization movement is to postcolonialism. The intellectual forefather of postcolonial ideology is the Marxist intellectual Frantz Fanon, whose writings glorified Algeria’s violent resistance to French control in the middle of the 20th century.  Starting in the 1990s, the field of settler colonial studies (SCS) brought postcolonial ideology into mainstream academia. Since then, history, anthropology, and sociology departments across the Western world have been teaching college students that their nation is an illegitimate settler colonial society built upon white supremacy, theft, and genocide perpetrated against indigenous peoples. SCS is now quietly becoming the basic framework for K-12 social studies curricula throughout the country. For instance, Oregon’s 8th-grade history standards ask students “to examine the differing forms of oppression, including cultural and physical genocide, faced by Indigenous Tribes and acts of resilience and resistance used by Indigenous peoples in response to settler colonialism.”


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