Clarification of State Repatriation

[Arrendis]

@Kitaula_Kuusa_Jouhinen

I’m talking about Adams and others like him.

Right, but the discussion you’ve replied to… isn’t. It was talking specifically about what Aria called the ‘Raata Caldari’, ie: the ethnic Caldari that never left Caldari Prime. The stuff that, as you say, ‘gets murky’.

Adams, as I said… lemme find it…

@Arrendis

Regardless, Adams has made his bed, and he’ll have to lie in it, and that includes being called a traitor and a turncoat, which I think can be said to be accurate.

But also, and this is important…

@Arrendis

[H]is experience is 100% subjective. The State can’t invalidate that, because he’s defining ‘Caldari’ according to what it means to him. So, to him, it’ll be valid. That’s all. I will, though, admit that I wasn’t explaining myself correctly in my initial off-the-cuff comments, though, and for that I apologize.

That’s the tricky bit, and it’s important, because identity’s 100% entirely subjective, especially when it’s our own identity. And no matter how much someone can yell and rage about ‘you’re not X!’… they’ll keep identifying as X unless you convince them that they’re not.