This panel on decolonial approaches is... messy, at best. I'm deeply suspicious of any approach that by default assumes precolonial cultures lacked violences or oppression and want to mythologise them in ways that fail to acknowledge contemporary contexts and community needs.
If we're unwilling to acknowledge the complexity of precolonial cultures as histories that are also messy, what we're pretending (at best) to reclaim is a myth, and usually one prone to co-option by particular forms of nativism. I'm very wary of this turn to almost fetishization.
It is absolutely possible to resist colonial systems without assuming that the only way to do so is through the construction of a sanitised history. A sanitised history itself is coloniality in action; the repetition of this system is by no means decolonial.
(Will I be frothing angrily about this for the next 45 mins to 2 hours instead of sleeping? Probably.)
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