YOTED: The settler spirituality to alt-right pipeline 

I'm white and I agree with everything you are saying. Our society is broken and backwards and we celebrate "progress" that is destroying our planet and killing people and animals every second of every day. Aaron Bushnell is absolutely and martyr and we all need to listen to the messages he left us. Thank you for this podcast keep up the great work

"Aaron Bushnell reclaimed his humanity" best commentary I have heard about him yet.

Thank you for this space. I feel at home here as a Palestinian.

Thank you for speaking on the absolute grounded sanity and unwavering commitment of Aaron Bushnell. I was not able to articulate the argument against those who insulted him with claims of mental illness in such a clear way. Respect.

My mother intends to live in Mexico after retiring, because her endless salary and stock options are insufficient to carry her in the United States. I told her okay, but at least acknowledge that you are a refugee. If a person refuses to learn the language, consider them yoted tourists.

This fucking hit the nail on the head imo. I'm white, my white family were so weird about native and oriental traditions. I know someone who claims she is "catholic buddhist vadantic" but she doesn't actually practice any faith. It's purely a claim, orientalist appropriation, for her to feel like she has Culture because we really don't. I myself have been desperate for something more, being raised white in America. I ended up with a whole ass degree in religious studies to see what I could sort out. Found out, as a decendant of Irish indentured servants I can at least blame the British for my lack of culture. Lmfao. But seriously. Lacking community and culture pushes us to go searching for spirituality and truth and lots of people get so fucking weird with it.

Edward Said is a great theorist looking at decolonalization. Love that you are looking at Fanon!

Brother in the struggle. We see these same habits with our traditional faiths and the appropriation of our culture as well. To have it done on your own ancestral lands has to be a deeper magnitude of pain. My heart goes out to all of those who were sacrificed to this beast and I pray for that day that we no loner have to endure these forms of oppression. ✊🏾

I really appreciate and value this discussion. Your voices balance a previously out of balance picture.

Thank you so so much for this space. So many things you both brought to the table made me feel so validated as a POC who passes horribly as yt. Like literally, I have tears. Thank you!!!

Standing in solidarity from Mni Luzahan

Some of this rang so true in the urban community I grew up in, lived in until recently. Folks who grew up outside culture went to university, got jobs in community, accidentially befriended pretendians. Because they were new to Indigenous community they fit in best with outsiders. And because they ran programs, they gave pretendians authority. They didn't used to make it into community as frequently in the 90's, early 00's because people organizing these programs still had connections to their home communities.

The auntie bit at the end healed my heart. I love your channel.

Right on, 💙everything you shared‼👊🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎯

Much appreciation for your work, and for the opportunity to listen and learn.

This was the episode that got me on the Patreon! Thank you Jen and Justine!

This is such an important discussion. I'm very grateful. Oh, and Malcolm Gladwell did a podcast exposing the Boston Tea Party ("Tempest in a Teacup" from Revisionist History podcast). And in Nepal, the oppressor calls the indigenous people "backwards." And every accusation is a confession. Oppressors are backwards to the right way of the world. #LandBack

Thanks for sharing this information. I’m not spiritual so I had no idea. I had been taught as a child that New Age stuff was Left wing. I have a question that it seems someone here might be able to answer. I was watching a RU-vid video about CPAC and there was a pro-Trump woman touting Land Back. I don’t know what organization she was with. I was just thrown off because I had never heard of this among Right wing folks. Is this one of their attempts at claiming a spiritual heritage? If anything else, this video has educated me to be more careful with who claims to be in any movement. Thanks again for all the work your group does.

Appreciate you both. I am grateful for your knowledge. I listen carefully and really try to learn.

loved the episode! You guys crack me up!

Very informative, thank you

Good show, thank you, I saw the mother god documentary too and live on Kauai, lots of those types I seen. I always ask them if they researched their white tribes first, and that if they use a poison or hurt themselves imitating Indians Indians might get the blame. I like that you told what to expect and what not to expect, we need more of that!

listening to this reminds me of when i was in grade school (and i'm old now), and how even little kids would ask each other "where are you from?" and the answer could never be "here." you had to say another country. cuz this place had no identity.

This is the podcast I've been looking for.

I haven't listened yet, but I'm very excited to. This is such a strange phenomenon. I'm interested to hear your analysis.

Love listening to y’all analyze whiteness… sadly I learn something new on every episode. So while I know you are not usually talking explicitly to us settlers I sure appreciate the opportunity to hear these conversations because I don’t hear them anywhere else

I need to show this to SO many people. People as in western "spiritualists" who appropriate indigenous people's culture as a lifestyle without a hint of irony while continuing their imperial mode of living. This is almost every new age/hippie I've encountered.

My ancestors were healers in eastern France. They came to Turtle Island in the early 1700 and lived with the indigenous people in friendly way, on the then Western frontier in what is now western Pennsylvania, and learned there plant medicine, probably the Susquehannock, Strangely, I think because of that, I resonate with your discussion. I lived in a Tibetan Buddhist meditation center for a decade meditating every day, resting the mind. I realized the importance of learning to rest in approaching genuine spirituality. Strange as it may seem, I really feel a genuine connection to the native world that was here with towns, roads, etc. for thousands of years. Sitting meditation regularly, has helped me realize importance of seeing the settler colonial conditioning I have within me and meet it with tender open heart. It is disappointing to my undulating egomania.

do y'all think that sometimes, political ideologies (especially in the u.s. and especially leftist versions) can have aspects of settler spirituality?

If you know you know.

totes

So... am I just supposed to embrace being a soulless settler because the alternatives are so silly? Honest question.

IS YODA SHORT FOR PEYOTE maybe it's spelled YOTE

Noholo

All anyone needs to do acquire some spirituality without ANY religion is to learn to read and play music or learn to draw and paint and connect with their own cultural roots that aren't rooted in some imperial Christian or New Age bullshit. I have zero sympathy for people too narcissistic to bother with this simple truth.