a friendly reminder that microaggressions against asians can also look like this:
pretending to gag at asian food
pretending to be weirded out by asian customs and cultures
excusing cultural appropriation (often through ignoring the stories of asians who have been mocked for wearing their ethnic dress while praising a white person for doing so)
not trying to learn how to pronounce an asian person's ethnic name correctly, or asking, "can i call you by something else?"
adopting an asian name for the ~aesthetic~
using the words "oriental" and "exotic" to describe asian people, particular asian women
ignoring the experiences and stories of south, southeast, and central asians
making sweeping assumptions about asian countries (including their political, historical and cultural landscape)
treating the entire asian community as a monolith and ignoring the fact that the experiences of asian nationals are remarkably different from the asian diaspora/migrant community
co-opting asian aesthetics into creative media without acknowledging their history
If you wonder why I get so upset about Carlos facing no consequences for telling a racist/xenophobic story about being in China at a Chinese restaurant or Valtteri making a joke about “eating a bat”?
It’s because it’s never just that, those “jokes” easily brush off hate that Asians experience especially during a pandemic that spurred racist names such as “Kung Flu” and more. They enable further racist behavior.
Then you see what happened yesterday in Atlanta where a white man goes to multiple Asian owned businesses and kills 8 people including 6 Asian women while yelling he wants to kill all Asians.
There is nothing acceptable about any form of racism.
asians worldwide are being beaten and killed. and it keeps going unnoticed. if you are being silent, fuck you.
the amount of hate crimes against asians have risen 1900%. it’s not our fucking fault we are in this pandemic. asians arent a virus or a disease. leave us the fuck alone.