Perhaps it is settler guilt, it feels wrong for my family to come here and then flee the moment shit gets rough. I know I would be more valued their especially in my scientific pursuits and I know that my partner would be safer but damn does it feel a bit shitty yk? I will probably still end up doing it for her sake but :/
You don’t actually owe it to the other imperial superlaser technicians to continue working on the death star if you have the opportunity to leave before it gets blown up
If it’s settler guilt- there’s an easy fix, really. Which also happens to involve moving… personally I see absolutely nothing wrong with leaving when shit gets rough, while I don’t identify as a settler exactly (Asian-Canadian) I sometimes wish my parents never moved to this hellhole myself (though I’m glad I met my partner as a result and wouldn’t change that for the world).
You don’t owe a damn thing to the country you’re in, particularly and especially not a settler-state, let alone a capitalist, and particularly, neoliberal one. Hell, if you really want to look at it a certain way, you could think about it as that leaving, as a settler, is reducing the core settler demographic- your own parting gift to the indigenous peoples.
Perhaps it is settler guilt, it feels wrong for my family to come here and then flee the moment shit gets rough. I know I would be more valued their especially in my scientific pursuits and I know that my partner would be safer but damn does it feel a bit shitty yk? I will probably still end up doing it for her sake but :/
You don’t actually owe it to the other imperial superlaser technicians to continue working on the death star if you have the opportunity to leave before it gets blown up
If it’s settler guilt- there’s an easy fix, really. Which also happens to involve moving… personally I see absolutely nothing wrong with leaving when shit gets rough, while I don’t identify as a settler exactly (Asian-Canadian) I sometimes wish my parents never moved to this hellhole myself (though I’m glad I met my partner as a result and wouldn’t change that for the world).
You don’t owe a damn thing to the country you’re in, particularly and especially not a settler-state, let alone a capitalist, and particularly, neoliberal one. Hell, if you really want to look at it a certain way, you could think about it as that leaving, as a settler, is reducing the core settler demographic- your own parting gift to the indigenous peoples.