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colonialist

[kuh-loh-nee-uhl-ist]

noun

  1. a person who supports the system or principles of colonialism.



adjective

  1. relating to, favoring, or arising from the system or principles of colonialism.

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The act, whose music celebrates drug use and puts down colonialist authorities in equal measure, became internationally infamous after a Coachella set that broadcast their views of the ongoing war in Gaza to the world.

From Salon

But such practices didn’t jibe with increasingly modern economies, and colonialists, especially in North America, saw burning as both barbaric and a threat to industrialized capitalism.

Through Amelia, series creator and executive producer Brendan Foley has an opportunity to address and perhaps challenge the colonialist outlook imbued in Holmes by his author.

From Salon

The government has only agreed to compensate former farm owners for "improvements" made on the land and refused to pay for the land itself, arguing it was unfairly seized by colonialists.

From BBC

There’s also something resonant in an Afrofuturist take on colonialist sci-fi, one that marks its narrative space with such a potent mix of planetary wonder, identity peril and alien violence.

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