the framing is bad but this raises an extremely good point that’s going to need to be addressed at some point

there is a very clear and obvious conflict between anti-colonial traditionalist indigenous nationalism and anti-traditional, anti-national globalized cosmopolitanism https://twitter.com/CoralDiBell/status/1285271922587176960

it does seem very strange that people are suddenly cool with ethno-nationalism if it’s for indigenous people, and white nationalists were pretty smart for taking advantage of this to try and get people on board with their bullshit

of course, saying these indigenous nationalists are the same thing as white nationalists is a bad comparison

white nationalists aren’t defending french or italian culture or whatever, they’re defending the legacy of colonialism, the “white” identity, while in contrast the indigenous groups are defending a real culture

the issue is, if you do believe everyone should shed the “shackles of tradition” and embrace a cosmopolitan world, you can’t suddenly make an exception for indigenous people