@Gsus4 I agree, slogans are nebulous at best, which is why they are so useful to politicians. I'm not the person who introduced the slogan (that was @appel, and as I said elsewhere I don't actually agree with them that this is what it is - the Sahel is still in the clutches of global corporates).

I was just objecting because you seemed to be equating attempted decolonization with xenophobia towards powerless migrants in high income countries, and I don't think that's appropriate.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But xenophobia is not class-based, it can be aimed at powerful people (and be partially justified) or aimed at powerless people. Anyone can fall for it, look at the recent example in South Africa: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66808346

I'm just trying to figure out where to draw a line for an acceptable amount of useful self-defense xenophobia (a sort of protectionism) as a general principle e.g. legislation preventing foreign countries from owning any of your critical infrastructure sounds reasonable vs self-destructive xenophobia e.g. "those damn foreigners"