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Not just them either.
My personal hate is the word "settler", which invokes an image of somebody taking previously useless land and making it fit for human habitation, but apparently has been redefined within the borders of Palestine to mean "armed invader".
Don't hear much about those Russian "settlers" visiting Ukraine...
North American Natives probably resent that sentence....
It is very rare for no humans to make use of land at all. Whenever someone "settles" it, they are taking it away from someone else. Usually force gets involved at some point, even for nomadic tribes. It's why colonialism has a bad rep these days.
Regardless of the negative connotations the word should technically have, it's been sorta green washed. It is a noteworthy term to use when it isn't applied elsewhere (e.g. Crimea)
Settlers have always been invaders. It’s just that it seems different in this context because we’re watching it happen instead of reading about it in text books
Not always. Settling on empty land is possible. The word settler here comes from "Settler Colonialism".
It differentiates from an "Extraction Colononialism" because the Settler Colonists try to replace the current inhabitans, instead of just stealing the wealth and enslaving the inhabitants.
It's just rather unlucky most people use the word "settler"instead of "colonialist" from this term to describe Israelis.
"Empty land" tends to be a consequence of human behaviors. Europeans spreading a plague through North America produced a lot of vacant real estate. Changes in environment - upstream dumping, massacre of native flora and fauna, Chernobyl style disasters - can kill a lot of people in short order and render land vacant.
But the most consistent and heavily practiced method of producing Free Real Estate is by pogrom. Rounding up all the locals and killing them until they leave.
Without that you're stuck. Any area of the planet that's habitable was inhabited tens of thousands of years ago, during the last big outward expansion of homo sapiens. Before that, we had near-human populations stretching around the world as far back as 2M years ago.
And that's not even getting into the volume of mega-fauna and other native life we've obliterated during the Holocene Extinction. There is no such thing as "Empty Land" in a material sense. There's only land that's relatively easy to push other people off of.
Having read Settlers, I've had a much different interpretation of the term since.
I hear it constantly. But its always in a twisted "It was okay when we did it, but these guys are different!" revisionist context.
That is revisionist history. Settler colonialism isn’t a thing that happened in the distant past, it is an ongoing process that is still going on to this day. What is currently happening in Palestine and Ukraine is an exactly what happened in the lands that you live on. You are a settler living on stolen indigenous lands, which were taken by brutal force no less inhumane and heinously than that being used by the IDF and the Russian state. Fuck off with that “previously useless land” bullshit.
But they're right that the word "settler" connotes "an image of somebody taking previously useless land" for the average reader. It's due to ignorance of the grim reality of our history, but it's nonetheless true.