Wow, I am sorry to spend 27 min on this and normally I enjoy this podcast so very much.

I do not see how these people are experts, since they have a problem even defining the word and use it interchangeably with other terms (with completely different meanings).

In the real world (as supposed to these peoples linguistic dreamland where up is down and red means quantum physics) colonialism is first and foremost a historical term. If you use it interchangeably with some sort of social-science definition or your own definition it seizes to be of any use for communicating your ideas unless you can define what it means. Which they don't.

Colonization/ Colonialism as a topic in fiction barely came up, rather it was about why white people should not write about what people of color don't like them to write about. At no point was an effective, meaning following the rules of logic, argument made for why appropriation is a bad or even harmful thing to individuals or society, rather anecdotes or generalizations are brought forth to justify all their positions or they weren't justified at all. If anything this panel has affirmed my position that unscrupulously appropriating other cultures remains to be a positive creative force. Cultural segregation and purity are by definition limiting and the enemy of plurality and progress in any art.

Being part of a minority group myself let me chime in and help these clueless idiots: Colonialism is a very ancient

That aside the panelist are incredibly ignorant of history which is especially infuriating since they were introduced as experts. I do not trust people who do not know when Britain was conquered by Rome and try to proceed to tell me how the British culture was erased.