While Carl is definitively one of Our Guys, the trouble I see with this type of argument is that it is not even wrong. Of course the left are hypocrites; of course they use language backwards to the reality they're describing; of course what we are experiencing right now is a foreign invasion and we are fighting on both fronts. But Carl characterizes our internal disagreement as "trying to turn this into a left/right shell game of signs and meanings", performatively engaging in "The Discourse". This is a total failure to understand the layers each argument is actually operating on! Carl sees this as a semiotics game because he (and I both) are finely tuned for semiotics, it is what we find fascinating and personally invest in. The left do not argue in semiotics; they argue in power. Debates about what "indigenous" or "colonialism" mean were never in good faith. As Carl knows very well, the dictionary definitions do not matter, and their intent was always to redefine everything in terms of anti-Whiteness. The communist redefinition of "indigenous" didn't win out because they "won the semiotic debate"—it won because they controlled the levers of power and forced everyone to repeat that 2+2=5. The left have always keenly understood far better than our side that you don't try to win the debate and "dunk" on your opponent. You capture institutions and squeeze your enemies until they yield. (Machiavelli would blush at their lust for power.) Consensus can come after, to entrench your beliefs as the norm and slowly destroy the ability to even think opposing ideas. The communist asset and modern Republican darling MLK was widely unpopular all the way up through his assassination; the left posthumously incited racial riots and blasted his "I Have a Dream" speech across all United States media channels, slanderously implying Americans everywhere judged by skin color and not by the content of their character, despite what contemporary crime statistics would reveal to any curious mind. Consensus was manufactured after the fact through ruthless exercise of power. Power came first; power always comes first. Likewise, the libel of Britons as incapable of being indigenous worked because of total leftist domination of mainstream loudspeakers. The semiotics are complete horseshit; nevertheless, it worked, because normies also do not respond to semiotic debate. The publicly high status position was anti-White; therefore, we will be anti-White. So Carl is not even wrong to note that words like "native", "indigenous", and "colonizer" have been abused and distorted beyond their original, narrow scope. But fighting over the words themselves is expending political capital in a direction that merely renegotiates the terms of our servitude. I am not saying "let them have these words"; I am saying we are not getting these words back unless we crush them first. Then and only then can we begin to enforce our frame. Note that RW memes and aesthetics only started being adopted by normies and the girlies as the sense that we were becoming a serious political force rose. No one wants to be a loser. We must demonstrate we can win first: every scalp we take strengthens our claim.