Immigrant diasporas in the West are filled with people who were the elite oppressor class of their countries and whose wealth & migration was facilitated by collaborating with Western empire. In turn these groups rebrand as humble immigrant families detached from these realities.

There's a phenomenon of using liberal identity politics to rebrand elite diaspora populations as humble "immigrant families of color" and to obscure the concrete imperialist structures that they enforced & benefited from to reap their wealth & get to the West in the first place.

This only further serves to obscure the violence that these diaspora populations and their descendants often continue to endorse & inflict on their origin countries from their comfortable perch within the imperial core.

Shout out to the Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, & Iranian American academics, journalists, etc who say "as a child of humble immigrants from X nation, here's why X nation is evil" & then I find out their families were the elite collaborators of the US & thats how they migrated here

Also shoutout to:
▪︎the Chinese American professors I've had who hated China & then I found out their parents were elites in the US-backed KMT party who were brought to the US to work for the *CIA*
▪︎every "Persian American" I grew up with who would rail about "the mullahs"

▪︎the Vietnamese American guy I met whose built a whole academic career writing about the tragedy of Vietnamese boat people & then I found out his grandparents were rich collaborators with the French & US who left Vietnam on private planes to France before the war broke out

Also this reminds me of the South Koreans I grew up with who talked about how barbaric North Korea is and then I found out their families are part of the S Korea mega corporations that collude with the US government and thats how they got rich & were able to come to the US.