Urban Colonialism is not a term you’re likely to hear in our city-centric media; or from smug “form based” futurists.
Rural people are a backwards people whose lives [and lands] are being improved; because, like the natives in other colonizations: keeping their culture is not worth considering.
The deeper you look the more parallels you will find — but who cares?
ur·ban co·lo·nial·ism | \ ˈər-bən kə-ˈlō-nē-ə-ˌli-zəm, -nyə-ˌli- \
1 : of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting control by a city over a rural area or people
2 : a policy advocating or based on such control
Industrial Farming is a powerful tool for promoting Urban Colonialism. — Alexander Zebadiah, The Cornithican, “The Urgent Case for Rural Activism,” 28 Dec. 2020
ur·ban col·o·ni·za·tion | \ ˈər-bən kä-lə-nə-ˈzā-shən \
: an act or instance of Urban Colonizing
Urban colonizers often employed these racist characterizations as justifications for the exploitation and Urban Colonization of rural New York. — Nora Fitchen, Rural Poverty as a result of Urban Colonization, 2021
This is the neatest explanation for why Form Based Codes have been used for Urban Colonization of rural communities. — Alexander Zebadiah, The Cornithican, “The Urgent Case for Rural Activism,” 28 Dec. 2020
ur·ban over·class | \ ˈər-bən ˈō-vər-ˌklas \
: a higher social stratum : a segment of society having more influence, prestige and power — compare Rural Underclass
Cuomo’s diverting the supply of COVID-19 vaccine to NYC for “fairness and equity” while suppressing distribution to the state’s marginalized rural poor and elderly underlines the establishment of a Black Urban Overclass in policy making decisions. — Alexander Zebadiah, The Cornithican, “‘COVID’ Cuomo,” 25 Jan. 2021
Terms like “Urban Colonialism,” “Urban Colonization,” and “Urban Overclass” would be in common usage; if the victims were of any importance.
“Rural Social Justice” is an action without a Legislator; an idea without an ideology to call home.
The people of rural communities, and their cultural identity, is one subject that our “oh-so-correct” city-centric society provides for ridicule and denigration.
Just as our poverty, hopelessness and neglect is greater than that of a Media-coddled Urban Overclass: So is our capacity to demand change.