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You make some valid points, though in many parts where you misunderstand "decolonization". For example, you mention Derrida far more that what is merited given the discussion, he's not key reference point to the author of this piece, nor is it relevant in any part of the text.

The time frame when Derrida was trending in academia (specifically in California, in Berkeley in Culture departments) kind of coincides with the emerging of the "decolonial" network of professors/scholars, that includes people from around the world. Yet what they're on about has nothing to do with Derrida's text, and everything to do with reviving, reintroducing and inserting into academia, bodies of knowledge that were obscured or erased by westernized university, which teaches mainly about big-name authors of 5 european countries. They try to develop on the philosophical/aesthetic/etc. contributions of people whose culture was attempted to be erased and replaced by conquest.

In a world where the hegemonic cultures are the westernized variants, an academic project such as that could allow people to imagine different worlds outside of the parameters of all the philosophical baggage westernized education/academia inculcates in its subjects, which includes all the entangled systems of oppression, democracy, capitalism etc.

At the same time, the can be no such thing as "undoing" colonization, hence decolonization or decoloniality is a misnomer. Ever since before the conquest by the evangelist of christianity, indigenous peoples or people with other religions such as islam, people have posed opposition to being conquered, and resistance after being conquered or wiped out. As well as syncrestism (like adopting christianity and western culture/philosophies to argue their point that they were human and that they had souls and that it was bad that they should be enslaved and wiped out etc.) to dialogue and negotiate with their conquerors after conquest. And this was well before any repentant conqueror spoke for them, and made the case for their humanity. These writings and testimonies have been forgotten and lost to time, and the little that remain, in text form or oral, or living memory are being rescued. Yet it's being done by westernized academics/people, within a context of the hegemony of westernized cultures in common world-system/world-economy that is a continuation of the project of colonization/modernity.

I'm reluctant that a retelling of exterminated people's histories from academia can be weaponized against the current status quo, towards liberatory alternatives. Or even a retelling of the quoran or the bible. You have these "decolonial" academics arguing over such things like whether they should support/align themselves Maduro or Guaidó in venezuela. They're power hungry academics/ideologues fighting over their chance at the pulpit or podium. This author decries those who seek celebrity status through social media, yet leaves the spectacular relationship of academia and activism untouched. They propose a just colonization through pedagogy/education in the reverse direction, to "undo" the damage of centuries of colonization and colonialism.

P.S. When you say: "Sanders and AOC are actually more progressive than this lack-fetishising, sectarian, idpol bullshit. They have the wrong ideas how to do things and what they want is nowhere near as radical as my own commitments, but at least they have visions for changing the world, they can speak to the alienation and oppression of the majority, they're proposing concrete changes which might make a difference." you sound really silly. If that would've been your first paragraph, a wouldn't have read your long-ass comment at all.