Procrustean Quotes

“In the American context, as we have seen, settler colonialism functions as an all-purpose explanation for capitalism, sexism, and climate change. Adding the Israel-Palestinian conflict to the mix is powerfully energizing, giving a local address to a struggle that can otherwise feel all too abstract. The price of collapsing together such different causes, however, is that it inhibits understanding of each individual cause. Any conflict that fails to fit the settler colonial model must be made to fit.

This Procrustean process is never more conspicuous than when Western progresskves insist that the struggle for LGBTQ rights and the struggle to liberate Palestine are one and the same. ...
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To make Israel fit its ideologically allotted role, theorists of settler colonialism must similarly redefine two central concepts: indigeneity and genocide.”
― Adam Kirsch, On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice