What does decolonizing look like?

These professors tell us

“Shabbat shalom and may every colonizer fall everywhere,” wrote Barnaby Raine, who received his PhD in history from Columbia and now teaches at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.

I often post here about how professors at ASU are pushing decolonizing theory into the classrooms. Even administrators have done this, giving it authoritative pressure against those of us who disagree, through workshops about decolonizing. I have written about this movement as a theory that uses the Marxist dialectic to argue that Western European influence on the world through Christianity and capitalism must be reversed. By doing this, the decolonizing want to return to indigenous people’s beliefs about the mother goddess, magical rituals, and the oneness of all reality.

All of that sounds very theoretical. What does decolonizing look like in real life? What kinds of actions are professors who advocate for decolonizing asking for? In this article below, tweets (if that’s what they are still called) from professors are referenced to give you a chilling look at what they want for Israel and other colonizers.

“Decolonization is about dreaming and fighting for a present and future free of occupied Indigenous territories,” Jairo Fúnez-Florez, an assistant professor at Texas Tech, posted. “It’s about a Free Palestine. It’s about liberation and self-determination. It’s about living with dignity.”

This Is What ‘Decolonization’ Looks Like