immigrants – Waiting for Winter

clatterbane:

amoebagrrrl:

class-struggle-anarchism:

bloody british immigrants, taking jobs from hardworking europeans

Jamaican poet Kei Miller wrote a very interesting essay about the difference between the ‘immigrant’ and the ‘expat’ which concluded with this:

My problem with the word ‘immigrant’ is that I am only an immigrant because I am Jamaican and I am black. I watch shows on British television of Britons who want to move to ‘A Place in the Sun’ – to a small village in France, or Morocco, or even Jamaica. Their impulses are the same as the woman from Kingston or the man from Lagos who moves to the UK. No one migrates for a worse life. But when the British pack their bags and leave they become Expats, not Immigrants. What a thing! The same process. The same act. But different words. Immigrants are not equal to Expats. Immigration is a problem; expatriation isn’t. Immigrants are expected to always be grateful, but a little bit angry. Expats are allowed to just be – to simply enjoy this new country that they have chosen to live in, and which they might very well choose to leave. The expat is allowed to be a savvy, cosmopolitan person who simply lives somewhere else than the place in which they were born and they don’t have to appear on panel after panel angsting about it all.

See also: British Privilege, Entitlement & Exceptionalism in one photo.

And that’s just in reference to the rest of the EU.

(Coming from someone who is generally assumed to fall into the “expat” category, by virtue of having come from the US. So is my Swedish partner. AFAICT, a lot of it seems to depend on perceived standard of living in your country of origin.)

thresholdofzero:

bill-11b:

matt-ruins-feminisms-shit:

mr-cappadocia:

manwithoutahat:

mr-cappadocia:

theunderlyingindividuality:

strawberrylicuado:

strawberrylicuado:

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I can’t believe how many bitchasses are crying in the notes on this post just because this girl who’s undocumented dared to excel

YAAAAS QUEEN

Criminal behavior isn’t exclusive to the uneducated. I mean how many rapists have been valedictorian?

That’s hyperbole AND a false comparison and you fucking know it.

More than likely she was brought to America as a baby and had no more choice about where she was born or grew up than any other child.

What about my comparison is false? Is she a criminal continuously engaging in criminal behaviour? Does her life status or grade level make her illegal actions legal?

What the hell is a false comparison. You can compare anything you want even if they have absolutely nothing in common it’s still a comparison. You can argue it’s not a good comparison but to call a comparison false is stupid. Whenever someone says false comparison you know they are about to bring up some special pleading argument like oh they had no choice so it’s not a crime for some reason.

And it’s not even a comparison of rapist to illegal alien I’m tired of people not understanding how analogies work. The point isn’t that rapists and illegals are the same thing or that those crimes are equitable so it’s not hyperbole either. It’s saying you wouldn’t defend one crime with the fact that the person was educated so why is that a valid defense for another crime. It isn’t.

If the point is that you can contribute and be a valued member of society then prove it and immigrate legally. And if you don’t want to be a citizen because you a proud citizen of your own country then fuck off and stay there. I hope she gets deported.

Glad she’s got full tuition while Vets have to beg for the fucking GI Bill we earned.

Honestly?

I love reading all these bitter ass pieces of shit getting their tighty whities in a bunch over this.

Any by the way, Bill, you absolute bag of used maxi pads, she EARNED that full ride scholarship with that 4.5 GPA.

Why don’t you just come out and say that you hate Mexican people instead.

Also that knee-jerk “BUT THE VETS” argument makes me want to punch a wall. These people never give a shit about how veterans are treated, never make so much as a peep about the way the US discards soldiers it rendered “unusable” until some demographic they hate makes socio-economic progress.

If y’all really gave a single fuck about vets maybe you’d volunteer to actually improve their lives, instead of just using them as props in your arguments against upward mobility. (and by the way, here are some places where you can do just that, or at least donate money to help volunteers do the work: X X X X X )