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People who say ‘anyone should be able to live / work anywhere / there should be no borders’
I don’t disagree but
You’ve clearly never tried to emigrate anywhere and stuff like that feels vapid and useless
Especially to people without passport privilege
The only people who currently have the ability to live / work anywhere with somewhat open borders are global north digital nomads making their homes in the developing world, mostly without following visa or tax laws. Everybody else needs a binder full of papers and stacks of money to even exist, to make the opposite journey
It also feels like the ‘thoughts and prayers’ of the broken immigration system. It’s broken everywhere people are trying to move to. By design.
There are specific ways to improve most of them. You can advocate for immigrants by learning first about precisely how broken they are.
Gotta understand the system and its workings to materially benefit anyone, but epistemologically and rhetorically rejecting migration control (and by extension the state system that underpins it) is still meaningful, to remember that fundamentally these aren't realities but intersubjective delusions we've subordinated ourselves to.
(Speaking as brexile, green passport sponsor, prole untermensch, it's better for the soul not to internalise the bullshit even as you pick your way through the web.)
@anilmc it would feel more valid and real to me if the people doing the rejecting and the activism understood or included people of other backgrounds as well. Right now a lot of it feels very abstract to me. Especially seeing how even in ‘border control free’ EU, border controls are coming back for only some types of people. Of the wrong background and color.