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What does it mean?
Critiques colonial expansion where wealth was taken and violence normalized.
In plain terms
Others took our resources and called the violence part of our success.
What can you take from it?
Recognize the human cost behind economic gain.

Where it applies

  • reviewing history
  • analyzing trade
  • environmental justice

Putting it to work

  • study colonial impacts
  • audit supply chains
  • support reparations

Questions to consider

  • Who benefits from the goods you use today?
  • How do we reconcile progress with harm?

Another view

Historical context is complex and not all trade was violent.

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