Professor Doug Stokes is author of the book, Against Decolonization: Campus Culture Wars and The Decline of the West, forthcoming in November 2023. The book takes a detailed look at the idea of decolonisation, that began with Critical Race Theory on universities, but has spread to now influence public policy. The idea is that the West in the past colonised land masses, and this displaced the native people, committed genocide, and said natives have since been subject to racism. The decolonisation movement is more than just opposing colonisation, but sees this process as intrinsic to the West, and to white European people, and thus sees the need for Western civilisation to be deconstructed.
To see the decolonisation dogma in a local case, look no further than the Voice, where the foundation document behind it, the Uluru Statement, runs the line that Australia was invaded by the British, genocide committed and that the Australian state that was established is illegitimate. Guess where the Voice, if successful, will take us?
