Canadians are not settlers.
They are citizens.
Citizenship is a privilege afforded to them after proving themselves and swearing an oath to maintain and keep an ostensibly functioning country.
Anyone who uses such language as "settlers" and "colonisers" not only does not understand how these words are used and the historical and political context in which they are used but are gullible mouth-breathers or racial hucksters who benefit personally and financially from creating such absurdities for the purpose of division.
The only thing that's 'unsettling' is that people look at board games and find them problematic.
Ultimately, through a set of game mechanics that motivates resource extraction in the name of settling a supposed empty land, the connection between the in-game narrative and the political histories of North America and other parts of the world is clear. As historian Lorenzo Veracini says, “the Settlers of Catan is really about settler colonialism.”
The success of Catan also codified a certain kind of game play that has similarly proliferated worldwide, one that’s invested in the specific historical, economic and political factors of settler colonialism.
This gaming rhetoric quickly began to shape the game mechanics and narrative strategies of not only European games but also global tabletop gaming culture.
Pardon us while we roll our eyes. Hard.
The history of the world is settling and conquest. This notion that 'colonialism' is purely a Western thing, and therefore inherently evil, is ridiculous.
But we expect no better from the Left.
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