I know it's lib/idealistic/naive/etc., but I kinda like the original comic. I think there are some people who would maybe become less racist/bigoted if they actually had meaningful interaction with the groups they tell themselves they hate instead of segregating themselves from them.
I also think there's a lot of "performative bigotry" that can happen sometimes where people aren't as bigoted as they make themselves appear, but they're trying to fit in with their local community.
Not to say that they aren't racist at all, just that for some people it seems to be largely performative. Like a gang member getting a swastika is often just as much about being "Yo bros I'm a Nazi like you" as is it actually being a Nazi.
The thing with expats is they often goes out of their way to avoid the local population and its culture. They either live in condos with other expats or in villas far away from the locals, they only visits expat-run business and spaces, and the only locals they know are sycophants with inferiority complex or exploited women.
The ones who truly interacts with the locals and "goes native" (read: not be a racist shit) are the exception in my experience.
As someone once said, the diffrence between imigrant and expat is, expat have white skin color lol. White people don't like negative connotation of word "immigrant" so they invented new word.
I mean, realistically it's probably the only way to actually convert bigots. Bigotry that stems from emotion (like fear, a lot of the time) can't be fixed with facts or re-education, it can only be changed through positive emotional experiences. Bigotry also largely festers when people are isolated, which can also only be fixed through societal reintegration. People are a result of their environment and changing an environment will change a person.
It's a really complicated issue imo, on the one hand you can't force "normal" people, especially people of color, to be around racists in an effort to "fix" them, but on the other hand isolating them only makes them more racist.
I know it's lib/idealistic/naive/etc., but I kinda like the original comic. I think there are some people who would maybe become less racist/bigoted if they actually had meaningful interaction with the groups they tell themselves they hate instead of segregating themselves from them.
I also think there's a lot of "performative bigotry" that can happen sometimes where people aren't as bigoted as they make themselves appear, but they're trying to fit in with their local community.
Not to say that they aren't racist at all, just that for some people it seems to be largely performative. Like a gang member getting a swastika is often just as much about being "Yo bros I'm a Nazi like you" as is it actually being a Nazi.
Just moving out of the rural south did wonders for my world view.
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The thing with expats is they often goes out of their way to avoid the local population and its culture. They either live in condos with other expats or in villas far away from the locals, they only visits expat-run business and spaces, and the only locals they know are sycophants with inferiority complex or exploited women.
The ones who truly interacts with the locals and "goes native" (read: not be a racist shit) are the exception in my experience.
As someone once said, the diffrence between imigrant and expat is, expat have white skin color lol. White people don't like negative connotation of word "immigrant" so they invented new word.
I mean, realistically it's probably the only way to actually convert bigots. Bigotry that stems from emotion (like fear, a lot of the time) can't be fixed with facts or re-education, it can only be changed through positive emotional experiences. Bigotry also largely festers when people are isolated, which can also only be fixed through societal reintegration. People are a result of their environment and changing an environment will change a person.
It's a really complicated issue imo, on the one hand you can't force "normal" people, especially people of color, to be around racists in an effort to "fix" them, but on the other hand isolating them only makes them more racist.
The original comic isn't lib, it's thinly veiled identitarian fascism.
inb4 :same-picture: , libs usually don't tell you that people become nazis just from living in a non-racist, multicultural society.
That's not the original comic, it's an edit.
The original is basically just the one on the left without the text at the top/bottom and played completely straight.
We have all 3 versions now!