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Ok I'll bite > This isn’t just a case of comfortable white people itching to do Colonialism 2.0. While there are no official statistics on the breakdown of Ame

by jere 6y ago

Ok I'll bite > This isn’t just a case of comfortable white people itching to do Colonialism 2.0. While there are no official statistics on the breakdown of American emigres by ethnicity, the country’s ingrained racism has made it more appealing for Black Americans to move abroad, while many Asian Americans find the job opportunities overseas better than the ones at home. Hispanic Americans are also opting out in increasing numbers for a variety of reasons. Can someone explain to me why white people moving to another country is considered colonialism?

wutbrodo 6y ago
I really wouldn't bother. There are stronger versions of the argument that race defines everything you do, even though I disagree with them. But this publication is pretty in line with the popular view that "doing anything while white is problematic". You may be familiar with it in the context of moving house: move to a cheap neighborhood? You're gentrifying. Move to a good neighborhood? You're segregating. In both cases, you're reinforcing white supremacy. I'm not even white, I just find the logic transparently nonsensical and am somewhere between amazed and amused that it's become so popular (and hilariously, the animus is far more targeted towards race than class).
temptemptemp111 6y ago
white = bad blacklist = banned whitelist = blacklist
helen___keller 6y ago
> Can someone explain to me why white people moving to another country is considered colonialism? The premise is that colonialism was marked by people from wealthy countries (generally Europeans) occupying and extracting wealth from poorer foreign lands. So the author is alluding that a (relatively speaking) wealthy white person looking to hop to a lower cost of living land, and be treated like a king for their wealth, is similar at face value. That said it's really just at face value. Using your expatriated wealth to live like a king in a low cost of living country is not the same as extracting wealth, and the expats generally hold no political power either.

by jere 6y ago

wutbrodo 6y ago

I really wouldn't bother. There are stronger versions of the argument that race defines everything you do, even though I disagree with them. But this publication is pretty in line with the popular view that "doing anything while white is problematic". You may be familiar with it in the context of moving house: move to a cheap neighborhood? You're gentrifying. Move to a good neighborhood? You're segregating. In both cases, you're reinforcing white supremacy. I'm not even white, I just find the logic transparently nonsensical and am somewhere between amazed and amused that it's become so popular (and hilariously, the animus is far more targeted towards race than class).

temptemptemp111 6y ago

white = bad blacklist = banned whitelist = blacklist

helen___keller 6y ago

> Can someone explain to me why white people moving to another country is considered colonialism? The premise is that colonialism was marked by people from wealthy countries (generally Europeans) occupying and extracting wealth from poorer foreign lands. So the author is alluding that a (relatively speaking) wealthy white person looking to hop to a lower cost of living land, and be treated like a king for their wealth, is similar at face value. That said it's really just at face value. Using your expatriated wealth to live like a king in a low cost of living country is not the same as extracting wealth, and the expats generally hold no political power either.