My mother didn't have a choice in being a refugee, she was the daughter of a genocide survivor, and frankly she was a genocide survivor herself. She moved her entire family to the imperial core. I can both be a genocide survivor, a victim of the Western empire, and also be a beneficiary of it by becoming a citizen of the Western empire, with a Western passport, a Western citizenship, access to the resources only available through Western plunder of the Third World which includes both of my home countries. My income is funding the bombing of my friend's little brother's school. My income is funding the genocides of Palestine and Lebanon that is killing many of my friends and their loved ones in Ghazzah. And on my own I can't fucking stop this slaughter. This isn't a privilege I would ever fucking deny but the fact that I see this stupid fucking discourse on the daily is driving me fucking insane. You can claim to be 'anti-imperialist' all you want but denying these basic fucking facts makes you an imperialist. Stop making your cognitive dissonance the problem of the Third World and be better than this. There is no free Palestine if this continues, if you all continue to deny the part everyone in the imperial core plays in benefitting from genocide and plunders the world over.
I am both a victim of imperialism and one of its beneficiaries by virtue of being embedded in the imperial core, REGARDLESS of the fact my rights are far lower than the most privileged subclass of the imperial core. It is clear however that a lot of you have yet to understand this is possible and to understand your own position as an individual within global material relations.
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