Yeah… And really, if there’s anyone I should be angry at about this, it’s the ostensibly “educated progressive/leftist” academics and factions, especially including many of the more educated members of MENA and other diasporas who have forever been railing against far-right populists in western countries all while doing absolutely nothing to meaningfully integrate migrants on a large scale even when they should’ve by all means had the knowledge and resources to do so. Of course xenophobes will always exist in any population, but the fact that they just stood by and gaslighted people into thinking there wasn’t a problem with any of these migrants themselves being culturally incompatible with their adopted countries even when that clearly was the case in far too many instances… Those are the ones who really should be held accountable alongside the right-populists themselves on a systemic level in my opinion.
Well, that is good to hear. I just find it annoying how a lot of ostensibly progressive people of different backgrounds constantly fetishize people who are nonwhite (or at least who THEY don’t consider “white”) without bothering to help them integrate into their adopted countries’ cultures or hold ones who do bad stuff accountable, leading to a situation where they lack stable positive identities and forever remain easy targets of right-wing populists. And for the record, I’m concerned about this (to put it mildly) because I myself have a partial first-gen immigrant background including a grandfather who came from a rather westernized Levantine Arab family, and it pains me to see so many others with similar backgrounds essentially throwing away whatever chances they had at contributing to their adopted countries’ cultures by acting on misguided culturally-conservative ideas.
