#don't be mad at me! i didn't personally colonize people! only my parents did!

[jesncin]

I mostly agree with your MAWS takes but. Superman being descended from colonizers who he's never met and raised on a planet that has only interacted with said colonizers twice, in two failed military excursions like. None of that makes him a colonizer or not-an-immigrant? Colonizing is a material system which benefits the colonizer and he is reaping none of Zod's rewards. He's a colonizer because he's clearly integrated into being white on Earth.

Ignoring the fact that in the scene that introduces the Kryptonian Warrior (which is not confirmed to be Zod btw!! Regardless of the "kneel" line) we see a civilization in flames as Braniac tells the warrior "I have found a new planet for you." implying they've conquered several already, and the leaked (?) concept art refers to Krypton as an empire (with Clark's parents being "one of the leaders" of said empire)...

...I think the very concept of Clark not gaining any material benefit or reaping rewards is in itself, an absolution of colonizer guilt by the narrative. It turns him into the sole exception of planet empire. Sure he didn't personally commit atrocities or have connections to that culture, but he is still a Kryptonian. Whether he wants to or not, he inherits that history. ESPECIALLY if he's a direct descendent of its leaders.

That Kryptonian Warrior wears the House of El symbol on their chest. Not the House of Z/Zod. Clark bears that insignia. Within the context of the show already, it is no longer a symbol for hope. It's likely the symbol of an empire.