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Buried in your comment was a short, simple definition of how the term is being used here:

> "decolonized" (opened and freely given to all)

Given that it's a word whose meaning you apparently understood in this context, was the rest of your comment really necessary? Its frothiness makes the whole "religious" charge seem like projection.

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The meaning was not simply open and freely given to all. It was that plus a payload of a specific type of condemnation of historical villains that is fundamental to the current campus dogma. The meaning of "made available to the public" is not one of the dictionary senses of the term "decolonized", which caused the "confusion" mentioned by the questioner. The "open" part of the meaning as well as the full implication can only be parsed if you recognize the doctrinal jargon.

I've described the meaning the author used here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27889686

The rest seems to be you just jerking your knee at a term that triggers you.

Here on HN people will use computer jargon or appropriated scientific jargon to describe things. Guess what, the same happens in other circles, just with different terms.

The culture war you're fighting is all in your head.

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