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because it can be useful. I think people seem to use words in relations to their own emotions in general. Another example is how there is still "white supremacy" as it casually existed in the early 20th century, and it does have to do with the state, so just because a lot of the people who talk about colonialism and white supremacy are suffering from an inferiority complex doesn't mean that it can effectively be removed from discourses that include history and general social trends. As far as I'm concerned, it's still pretty helpful to read things like "the people's history of the united states" and to simply acknowledge the ways that that's connected with the 2019 political machine. There had to be old-school colonialism in order to usher in modern technology and modern day racially-motivated politics.