What is certain is the fragility of white control over the colonial world
Whether conceptualised intellectually as “The Great Replacement”, or “Whiteshift”, in books by rightwing thinkers, or in a less articulate way on the internet as the fear of an invasion by Muslim refugees, or through the deployment of a more apocalyptic imaginary of white decline as in the manifesto of Christchurch’s white ethno-nationalist mass murderer, there is an increasingly available literature portraying people of white European origins as being in a state of decline. As about to suffer a total reversal of circumstances and become dominated by the very people who have long themselves been dominated by Europe.
Unlike what some think this is hardly a new phenomenon. It is actually the case that a feeling of being besieged by the very people whom one is actually colonising is, paradoxically, part and parcel of the history of European colonialism.
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