Should we stay for the revolution? If it’s even possible?
I’ve seen some on the internet (mainly TikTok and twitter, sue me) say that moving to another country to escape your problems (this is mostly directed to those in the US and Canada) is a form of colonialism and you would contribute to gentrifying the country you leave to. Do you agree?
I’ve mentioned on here a few times my disdain for living in Canada and how I am happy to leave when I am able, I’ve even had some comrades encourage me to do so if I can, so for a time I was sure that moving was an okay thing to do but now I don’t know. I don’t want to gentrify another nation and I don’t want to abandon people here who aren’t afforded the same privileges as me. I figured maybe I could help from a distance, or at the very least “visiting”to help but not living here, does that make sense?
Anyway, I really wanted to move away but now I’m not so sure and I may be causing more damage by leaving. I don’t want to colonize another place, I’m already a settler in Canada and I wasn’t planning on moving to Portugal either (locals can barely afford to live there themselves). I know I shouldn’t be taking statements made on social media so seriously but I can’t help but take these criticisms into consideration.
Sounds like this is your first issue. Though you should try not to gentrify and certainly not be a settler about things if you migrate.
Martyrdom also doesn't help anyone. Also (as someone who still has empathy for the individuals, etc. and who lives here and has family/friends here) fuck the west, fuck it to oblivion. The ball is in the west's court as to whether they will accept their place within the rest of humanity or continue trying to rule over the world as "ubermensch" thieves and genocidaires.
If you can move, and if it makes sense to you, by all means, move. Almost certainly you won't be asking yourself these questions (hell, you'll be regretting having had asked) if and when they come for you and you're still around.
Canadian as well and I don't identify as a settler (not white, though I sure as hell don't identify as indigenous to this place- I'm not) but I can say for sure I'll get the hell out when and if I can. Fuck this place, fuck this society (there are good individuals, but the society is rotten to the core), fuck it all. You may as well consider yourself living in Weimar Germany if you ask me (perhaps a more unhinged Weimar Germany, as this state and society has effectively no indigeneity unlike the indigenous-to-central-Europe Germans, and because they're literally pushing for nuclear WW3 which I doubt even the mustache man would have been so mad as to provoke when MAD is on the table), shit is likely going to go down.
TBH actually seeing this reminds me of something. I'll message you about it maybe, idk. But if you can get the hell out (and you want to and can have a better life elsewhere- which by the sounds of it you do) by all means go for it.
Once again, fuck this country.