I did genuinely think that this is someone attempting to parody academic jargon to poke fun at Butler. But re-reading the post seems like there can be something actually being said. But also in the context of OP’s title, I’m back to having no idea what the point is.
My reading of this is: The responder says that in a lecture, they (which are Butler’s preferred pronouns since 2020. Not sure why the responder decided on she/her…) said the book “Wretched of the Earth” undermines the idea of “decolonization” by saying it (decolonization) grows out of deeply entrenched desires for states to hold “masculine” values (like ex. independence, fighting ability, not-being-subservient to others). These “masculine” ideals are imaginary and only exist as conceptions we have in our head. But even so, they are desires being chased even if states don’t explicitly say they are chasing them.
These deeply entrenched desires manifest themselves through violence. Specifically, the kind of violence that only states get to do without major objections from anyone. Decolonization reframes (problematically, in Butler’s -alleged- view, if the responder is being truthful) this violence as something special that formerly colonized states get to do, in order to achieve “liberation”. Butler (allegedly) believes this reframing of violence in the quest to liberate these colonies will only entrench patriarchy. If true, that would make the current version of decolonization antagonistic to goals like feminism or gender equality.
These claims are (allegedly) what they believe the book Wretched of the Earth tells us about decolonization.
Where I get confused is by OP’s title. Butler is an outspoken critic of Zionism and critical of Israel’s conduct in Gaza. So how is their face an example of “how white people look at you when you don’t condemn Hamas”?
edit: I didn’t mention how the book fits into this. Whoops. edit 2: the word “phantasmatic” or phantasmagorical has a bit of nuance behind it I didn’t really capture originally.
I was going to jump into a big thing about comparing how NTs treat NDs with how hearing people treat Deaf people. But there’s already a lot of novel length comments here now and I feel weird jumping in with another lol
But anyway, if you’re curious for a parallel, check out some posts written by Deaf people! There’s a lot that can be relatable there.