…in that colonizers use the term to justify their continued brutalization of people fighting back against oppression. It was probably on the-podcast where I first heard the argument that it’s a fairly useless term mainly used to describe any militant enemies of the west, but it occurs to me now and seems so obvious that the term “terrorist” is just a direct replacement for “savage”.

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    Similarly, the west uses “democratic” like they used to use “civilized”, although they never really stopped doing that one either