Before 1950: Colonizer. Cool, badass, likely about to commit crimes against humanity to enrich themselves
After 1950: Expat.
People like this never see themselves as immigrants. They believe immigrants extract value while they are value generators that are a benefit to anywhere they may grace with their presence.
Immigrant = Bad. Steals jobs from locals
Expat = Good. Stimulates local economy with capital.
Add a garnish of good old race science (used to justify crimes against humanity for 200 years) and I think you can tell where I’m going with this. Are non-Europeans and their descendants even like, you know, people?
How did the expat get capital you ask? The guy in line one is their daddy’s daddy’s daddy. Or brought that stolen wealth back to their daddy’s daddy’s daddy’s country.
But is that wealth really stolen if its taken from non-people? - the sophistication of moral philosphical quandaries of the European colonial era lmao.
Before 1950: Colonizer. Cool, badass, likely about to commit crimes against humanity to enrich themselves
After 1950: Expat.
People like this never see themselves as immigrants. They believe immigrants extract value while they are value generators that are a benefit to anywhere they may grace with their presence.
Immigrant = Bad. Steals jobs from locals
Expat = Good. Stimulates local economy with capital.
Add a garnish of good old race science (used to justify crimes against humanity for 200 years) and I think you can tell where I’m going with this. Are non-Europeans and their descendants even like, you know, people?
How did the expat get capital you ask? The guy in line one is their daddy’s daddy’s daddy. Or brought that stolen wealth back to their daddy’s daddy’s daddy’s country.
But is that wealth really stolen if its taken from non-people? - the sophistication of moral philosphical quandaries of the European colonial era lmao.