{"id":139495,"date":"2023-12-26T12:52:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T17:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=139495"},"modified":"2023-12-26T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T21:02:38","slug":"professors-u-s-a-genocidal-settler-colonial-state-that-needs-to-be-dismantled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/professors-u-s-a-genocidal-settler-colonial-state-that-needs-to-be-dismantled\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors: U.S. a genocidal ‘settler colonial state’ that needs to be ‘dismantled’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘The goal is to dismantle the settler project that is the United States’<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A recent far-left panel discussion titled “From Minnesota to Palestine” featured a pair of University of Minnesota professors, one of whom called for the destruction of the United States as we know it.<\/p>\n

The Red Nation<\/a>, which is “dedicated to the liberation of Native peoples from capitalism and colonialism” according to its website, hosted the event.<\/p>\n

Alpha News<\/em><\/a> reports American Indian Studies Professor Melanie Yazzie (pictured)<\/em>, a co-founder of The Red Nation, told the audience \u201cI hope that you seek to dismantle the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States, also built on stolen land like the settler nation of Israel, does not have the authority to speak in this place and on this land,” Yazzie said. “It is the Indigenous people, who belong to Indigenous nations that predate the advent of the United States and that will be here after the United States is gone, that have the authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that the U.S. giving land back to Native Americans is “non-negotiable” and “is going to happen.”<\/p>\n

“[I]t\u2019s our responsibility as people who are within the United States to go as hard as possible to decolonize this place because that will reverberate all across the world, because the U.S. is the greatest predator empire that has ever existed,\u201d Yazzie, whose “specialties” include “Indigenous feminist and queer studies” and “political ecology and environmental studies,” said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal is to dismantle the settler project that is the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

MORE:<\/strong> Professors champion Palestinian \u2018decolonization\u2019 after Hamas terror<\/a><\/p>\n

Yazzie’s U. Minnesota peer Nick Estes (pictured)<\/em>, also a co-founder of The Red Nation who studies decolonization, U.S. imperialism, environmental justice, and anti-capitalism, said the “default” position of the United States towards Native Americans and Palestinians is “hate.”<\/p>\n

\u201cEverywhere we turn in this settler colonial state we see genocide and we see the celebration of genociders,” Estes told the panel.<\/p>\n

The Red Nation member Justine Tiba proclaimed that the United States “does not have a right to exist. Israel does not have a right to exist. Australia, New Zealand, all of these settler colonial projects do not have a right to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n