In various registers, Bandung and its legacies raise questions about the political and moral afterlives of colonialism. My contribution reflects on several of these issues—though without direct reference to Bandung—through a series of personal encounters: with Indigenous activists in Canada, nationalist movements in Quebec, anti-imperialist discourse in Brazil, and campus debates over Zionism—that challenged the moral maps I was used to. In each case, the familiar binaries of colonizer and colonized, oppressor and oppressed, began to unravel. What happens when the descendants of Holocaust survivors are cast as colonial oppressors? When Quebecers invoke Frantz Fanon to frame themselves as colonized, while Mohawks denounce them as colonizers? When a left-wing critique of Brazilian politics is read not as solidarity but as imperialism? These experiences raise deeper questions: Who has the right to speak in the name of justice? Can we think beyond binary frameworks without abandoning moral clarity? And how do we acknowledge complexity without falling into paralysis?