what are the real-life reactions we are seeing which this is parodying?

not the only issue, but as a lemmy.ca user I feel obligated to put in a word

canada is supposed to touch the Pacific

I guess I’m in a similar situation for b. (some negligible heritage but not raised in the culture). As for (a), I don’t live in the U.S., so I have nothing to flee at the moment. Best of luck, hope you find safety.

Ok, that’s pretty cool. I didn’t know there were people who were in favour of emigration for anti-colonial reasons but not for reasons of collective guilt. You have opened my mind a little bit today.

I guess I have a follow-up question, which is

(a) wouldn’t it be better to fight colonialism at home, instead of just abandoning the fight entirely just to feel like you have a clean conscience?

(b) would you think differently if it turned out you had some % indigenous heritage?

This is an anti-colonialist meme joking about people who are anti-immigration for other reasons

Before endorsing something like this, maybe research about how statelessness is one of the things the UN is lauded for trying to end. It’s like the peacetime equivalent of a war-crime. Stateless persons are absolutely not something we should try to make more of. It’s a principle like self-determination that if someone is born and raised somewhere, they should never be forced to leave – violating this is how you get an Israel/Palestine situation.

If you’re very morally zealous, you are probably saying to this, “well fuck people who disagree – they should just leave.” Kinda naïve! If it were possible to arrange for that, a lot of conflicts in the world would never have started in the first place.

UN convention on stateless persons Statelessness (wikipedia)

generally anti-colonialists aren’t against colonizing areas that are uninhabited by humans. You could probably make this kind of joke work if you were to identify a pre-existing indigenous civilization that existed on the land before the person pictured’s society did, but you’d have to do actual research.

Oh. That doesn’t seem problematic. Where would you go?

may i ask why you moved to the americas in the first place? No judgment.

the anchor can stay, the boat can leave.