Anyone who is helpfully telling me to move to *your city* to get away from fascism, you’re not helping.
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Anyone who is helpfully telling me to move to *your city* to get away from fascism, you’re not helping.
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More than anything, other than familiarity with some of those so-called ‘good’ countries and cities that I really disagree are ‘good’: I feel insulted by any help or advice like this that is mostly steeped in ‘we are just better than America’. Often when it comes from people who don’t even have a fraction of the awareness of their white privilege than some of the worst racists of the American South.
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Just this morning I’ve received comments urging me to move to (1) a European city that is the only city with ‘tech jobs’ that also has a housing crisis that is also a city where I get ni-haoed daily (2) an Australian city that is apparently great and not racist but where I received verbal abuse almost daily over many years but where the people who say it is not racist tell me that definitely never happens there
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@skinnylatte My one Italian friend keeps being like “just move here to get away from fascism” and I’m like. Didn’t they just elect Mussolini’s granddaughter?
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Worst of all was the weird queer woman living in MY COUNTRY who sent me charts and graphs about how I should move home (even if my wife can’t move home with me) because Singapore is catching up with the US on queer rights, we allow one pride flag in Chinatown now!!!! Fuck off ahahahaha
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@sidereal she’s clamping down on queer families already
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@skinnylatte It really feels like people being like “well clearly I am safe where I am right now” and it’s like… maybe!
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Adrianna Tanreplied to sidereal last edited by [email protected]
@sidereal I dunno if they noticed but there are also no jobs in Italy for anyone. Certainly not for immigrants. Italian immigrants are moving to *my country in Asia* for jobs
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@skinnylatte @sidereal
All of Scandinavia has no jobs. Only the "pure" have real jobs, with benefits, the poor work minimum wage with no benefits.You have to be born, educated and pre-fit for one of their govenment or bank jobs.
I'm Swedish born, but because of my parents moving around when I was little, I'm denied "entry" into the "scandinavian dream."
No immigrant will get a "European" job without connections and corruption.
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@RustyBertrand @sidereal even a place like Paris that seems ok to ‘break into’ with enough French skills and global connections (like if you’re extremely senior at a large European org), you’re still very much judged on ‘did you go to the right type of school / come from the right family’ in ways I don’t think anyone can ever understand unless you are steeped in it.
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@skinnylatte Thailand comes up very high in LGBTQ safety—and yet…the amount of political instability and the variability of attitude that must be like microclimates makes me concerned about it.
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@glennf I would be able to do that but solely because I speak Thai and am v familiar with it (and my country is a 90 min flight away if shit happens)
But also awareness of politics and local chauvinism. I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t know what I was getting into. Although many expats seem to get on just fine.
