#anti-Asian hate crimes are still happening

[snowviolettwhite]

I just need to rant about the antisemitism in leftist spaces and the erasure and re-writing of Jewish history and heredity from people who claimed to be for marginalized and oppressed people. Because I have no where to let it out. I feel betrayed by the leftists and libels, like I can no longer trust them or feel safe around them, they claimed to care about me and Jewish people but they lied and are out for violence.

You can be for a free Palestinian without antisemitism. Some people are being disgusting with their hatred for Jewish people and wanting the annihilation of the only Jewish state. You can be against corrupt governments but innocent people shouldn't suffer.

People are using what is happening as an excuse to be vocal about their antisemitism. What is more upsetting is the fact the people who consider themselves goodhearted and for the oppressed being disgusting to Jewish people and refusing to see them as human than the right wing conservatives. Because at least I know they are dangerous and they are not hiding behind fancy words and trying to erase and rewrite Jewish history and identity.

The only reason Jewish people are considered "white" is because for thousands and thousands of years the been forced to leave their homes, forced to convert, be raped or be murdered. Another reason is to erase the historical oppression which has been going on for over three thousand years.

Jewish people have not even been considered white for hundred years and depending on where you live in the world Jewish people are still not considered white. In their legal documents it was literally listed that they were Jewish, not Russian. My parents are not even old, they are only in their early 50s. My family is from Soviet Russia and immigrated to the USA in the 1990s. My parents were not considered white in Russia, they would sometimes experience hate crimes and bullying because of their Jewishness multiple times a day. One of the reasons my parents moved to the United States was because it was one of the safest places for Jewish people. After the collapse of the soviet union the violence and antisemitism was a lot worse.

Your blatant antisemitism in the free Palestinian movement is scaring Jewish people away from it and the from left. Fyi, after Black Americans, Jewish Americas are the largest group to vote democrat and be involve in activism according to statistics and history. People are not calling Black American people or Native American people white or mixed even though Christian Europeans did similar things to those groups as well.

Frankly, I personally feel conflicted when I have to check white in a box because it means European descent, my family has no European ancestry. It is most Middle Eastern, West Asian and North African.

Also, we can talk about how Christian Europeans stole the term Caucasian. The actually Caucasus region is in West Asia and Eastern Europe.

Also I want to state Judaism in a ethnoreligion. People who convert to a different religion can still experience antisemitism. People who have Jewish ancestry but raised as a different religion can still experience antisemitism. Non practicing Jewish people can still experience antisemitism. You can change religion but you can not can your ethic background and your family history.

More than one group of people can be indigenous to a certain place.

Jewish people can not talk about just being Jewish without antisemitic comments, recently saw someone claim an anti-Jewish protest was actually a pro-Palestinian protest despite the the leader of the event literal said it was an anti-Jew protest. A pro Palestinian group wanted to hold a protest at the Holocaust Museum and the antisemitism has been on the rise for years.

My grandparent are Holocaust survivors my grandpa was almost killed by a Nazi in his hometown twice, my grandma almost died from the same thing the killed Anne Frank, I had family that was buried alive.

It has not even been hundred years since the holocaust happened, so stop claiming their is such a thing as Jewish privilege. Jewish people are still being murdered and bombed and all these terrible things for being Jewish.

#jewish history #antisemitism #jewish #leftist antisemitism

[theophagie-remade]

English translation of Questo mondo non mi renderà cattivo/This world can't tear me down's opening song:

Seafarers who go

Wherever they want, but not here¹

To steal my job in this jungle

And crushing my dream, which was to

open a bangla²

A bangla

It's fine if you remain here

But come on, stop talking to me about dignity

We bury waste where flowers grow³

(You're paid) €1.50 an hour and then you die⁴

But (do it) outside

Go die out there, 'cause here you're

You're in a wonderful country

This is a wonderful country

Wonderful

Wonderful

Seafarers who go

Wherever they want, but not here

To steal my job in this jungle

And crushing my dream of opening a bangla

A bangla

It's fine if you remain here

If you're running from a war, sure, but it must be a truly major one⁵

Nobody gives a damn about your shitty degree

It's just that your skin tone's a little too dark⁶

Dark for this place, for you're

You're in a wonderful country

This is a wonderful country

Wonderful

Bridges collapse⁷, ships sink⁸

But come on, it's all wonderful, as long as it doesn't happen to you

Students die, ministers speak⁹

This flavour of evil, can't you taste it too?¹⁰

This flavour of evil, can't you taste it too?

Factories explode¹¹, houses collapse¹²

But come on, it's all wonderful, as long as it doesn't happen to you

Rights die, ministers applaud¹³

This flavour of evil, can't you taste it too?

This flavour of evil, can't you taste it too?

Can't you taste it too?

1: Reference to Umberto Tozzi and Raf's 1987 song Gente di Mare ("Seafarers"). Most "illegal" immigrants reach Italy by sea through boats or rafts

2: Slang term for a mini-market owned by south asian immigrants. Also, "they steal our jobs", opposition to immigration 101 all across the board

3: Illegal waste burial is a really common practice in Italy

4: Exploitation of immigrants and their labour

5: Although anti-refugees sentiment is still strong, undeniably ukrainian refugees are more easily "accepted" than others due to both racism and to how close the russo-ukranian war is to Italy itself

6: Although this happened too recently for it to have been the inspiration for this line (which nevertheless expresses a commonly held belief), it should be known that just last May three ghanaian collaborators of Lesley Lokko who were supposed to be with her for the Venice Biennale cultural exhibition were denied entry into Itay. While details weren't made public, Lokko was allegedly accused of trying to bring "non-essential young men" into the country

7: Reference to the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in 2018. 43 people lost their lives

8: Reference to the Costa Concordia disaster of 2012. 33 people lost their lives

9: Suicides are becoming ever more common for a number of reasons, especially among university students. Giuseppe Valditara, the current Minister of Education, maintains that humiliation is a "factor for growth"

10: Likely a reference to Gino Paoli's 1956 song Sapore di sale ("Flavour of salt / Salty flavour")

11: Possibly a reference to the explosion of the Thyssenkrupp steel mill in Turin, 2007. It may be a broader allusion to workplace accidents and death. 2022 alone saw 1090 victims

12: Illegal construction is extremely common. Just last November 12 people died in Ischia due to a landslide. Hydrogeological instability is overall high in all of Italy

13: Amongst its objectives, the draft bill Ddl Zan aimed to criminalise hate crimes specifically motivated by homotransphobia, misogyny, and ableism. The Senate "killed" it on 27/10/2021, with the cheering and clapping of its detractors

#non frega un cazzo a nessuno ma volevo sprecare una serata👍 A/W @International public WATCH THIS SERIES!!!!!!!!!! #i hope i don't have to add that this is an ironic song. i don't have to. right. #zerocalcare #questo mondo non mi renderà cattivo #this world can't tear me down #series #mytext #edit so the lyrics are out (i did this by ear) and apparently it says ''basta non tocchi a ME'' (as long as it doesn't happen to ME) #ma io continuo a sentire ''basta non tocchi a te'' quindi ciccia #stessa cosa per la parte studenti/ministri IO SENTO ''PARLANO'' okay ok

[icedsodapop]

I find it so interesting that when Mark Wahlberg's hate crimes got brought up in light of the SAG Awards, you can see the anti-woke assholes in the comments section saying that people should "let it go" since Mark Wahlberg "was a kid" when it happened, that "people can grow and learn from mistakes they made as a teen", and these assholes always bring up the fact that his victim, Johnny Trinh, forgave him.

But, it's soo interesting that Mark Wahlberg's defenders conveniently left out his other victim, Kristyn Atwood, a little Black girl who was part of the group of mostly Black middle-schoolers he and his friends pelted stones at, hurled racial slurs at. His other victim who defintely DOES NOT forgive him, who also was a kid herself in the fourth grade when Marky Mark and his buddies decided to assault her and her schoolmates.

These assholes said that Mark Wahlberg has grown and learn from his mistakes, but did he really? How would they know?? Did he really learn from his mistakes when he tried to expunge his criminal record to start his shitty burger chain? Did he personally apologize to Jess Coleman (who was 12 y/o then) and his siblings for harassing them while they were just walking home from school because they were Black? Has Marky Mark ever reckoned with how his white privilege had a part to play for his lenient sentencing (2 yrs jail, he served a mere 45 days), for his oppprtunity to move on? After all, Black and Brown people have been dealt harsher sentences for far less. And apart from paying lip service to George Floyd's murder and BLM, has Marky Mark actually donated to Black Lives Matter? Or Stop Asian Hate? Or any Black and AAPI advocacy groups? Or fuck, any gofundmes?? Has he advocated for defunding the police or gun control?

And finally, these assholes act as if just because ONE victim forgave him, Mark Wahlberg's crimes are automatically absolved and we can all move on. That's not what forgiveness means? It's up to Johnny Trinh's perogative to forgive him and I respect that, but Trinh's decision to grant his attacker grace does not mean that Black people and other Asian people aren't allowed to be angry over Mark Walhberg's actions and the lack of consequences that followed them.

I keep thinking about Roxane Gay's interview with NPR on not forgiving Dylan Roof, how forgiveness is often weaponized against Black, Indigenous and other people of color. The idea that we have to let it go because it's in the past. But we can't let it go because what Mark Walhberg did is sadly not unique, he's just one of the many racist assholes who commited hate crimes against BIPOC, crimes that are still happening now.

And it's hypocritical to expect Black and Asian people to forgive and forget what Mark Walhberg has done, when the same grace was not afforded to Will Smith. So, who does "forgive and forget" actually serve?

#anti mark wahlberg #racism #hate crimes #blm #stop aapi hate #antiblackness #anti asian racism #sag awards 2023 #sag awards #white privilege

[adhdnojutsu]

So you're anti history and pro-genocide. Got it. the Hamas claims have been refuted a million times, even by Israel journalism. Even by pro-israel news outlets and the New York Times. You're Jewish but you deny that a genocide is taking place, as the Holocaust did. Just admit you aren't interested in the massacre Israel is inflicting and has been inflicting on millions of innocent lives instead of trying to save your ass. You support Palestinians being butchered and wiped out unless they agree to Israeli terms. It's genocide supporters such as yourself who shouldn't be on Tumblr, due to the hateful propaganda you spread.

This is the standard, regurgitated response we get when we say we're not cool woth 1200 civilians, including BABIES, whom we KNEW PERSONALLY AND WENT TO SCHOOL OR WORK WITH, getting raped, mutilated, burned alive, murdered, and 250 more kidnapped as human shields. Me caring about my own people first and foremost, LIKE ALL PEOPLE DO, is twisted into condoning the genocide of another.

They refuse to explain why they so readily dehumanise Israelis, and at the same time, expect a huge outpour of compassion for Palestinians from the very Israelis they dehumanise while we struggle with personal losses and acute, severe PTSD by the hundreds of thousands.

Every argument these sociopaths make, every question they ask, is in bad faith. They know damn well that similar or worse has been happening elsewhere with nowhere near the outrage and still haven't explained why. Truth is, most of them don't care. Half of them have a full cart at Shein, a labour camp supplied by captive Muslim Uyghurs, for example. But due to the white supremacist US alliance, Israel, a country whose people is 60% brown, is whitewashed and thus a more ethical target for fake outrage than SE Asian or "real brown" countries. Criticize Chinese crimes against minorities, and you're sinophobic. Criticise Hamas, Assad, or the Houthis who are starving Yemeni babies RIGHT NOW, and you're racist. What makes Israel unique oh wait I know, it rhymes with juice.

That said, genocide is defined by intent, not success, and Hamas' own words betray that their end goal is eradicating Jews in the region. Meaning October 7 was a pogrom, not resistance. Resistance is solution oriented, but the current brutality against Gaza was a 100% predictable and predicted consequence of October 7 and Hamas did it anyway. Why is no one talking about that?

I never said anything about condoning genocide, but these anti-Semitic animals claim Hamas is just a bunch of misunderstood meow meows and cite sources that refute their own claims, because dropping the names of those outlets is enough to convince thoughtless idiots who think being given names is as good as verifying them.

Or maybe this is more evil sadism because this puts me in a position where I have to retraumatize myself, already suffering PTSD since that day, all to look it up myself to refute their bad faith claims. I wouldn't put it past them.

#why Shani and not you #seriously and sincerely

[beardedmrbean]

A New York City registered sex offender with nine prior arrests was apprehended again for allegedly breaking into his 81-year-old Brooklyn neighbor’s apartment and brutalizing the woman. 

Thomas Johnson, 50, is accused of a "particularly despicable crime" against the 81-year-old victim that happened at approximately 1 a.m. on Tuesday in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said at a press conference on Wednesday. 

So far, Johnson – a registered sex offender, risk level 3, which is the "highest level" – has been charged with second-degree assault on a female over 65 years old and strangulation and burglary in connection to the incident, but there may be additional charges in the future, Essig said. 

N.Y. Daily News reported that the victim said she believes Johnson, who is her upstairs neighbor, raped her during the alleged attack, and the results of a rape kit performed on the woman at the hospital are pending.

NYPD FIRES ASIAN COP CHARGED WITH HATE CRIME FOR ALLEGEDLY HURLING ‘ANTI-MUSLIM’ SLURS, BEATING DRUNK DRIVER 

"He knows I live here alone. Oh my God, how could he do this?" the woman, whose name was withheld from the report, told the newspaper. "I’m still spitting up blood. He didn’t say a word. He knocked me down on the ground and strangled me. He jammed his fingers down my throat so I couldn’t scream. I was knocked unconscious. I believe he raped me."

"He didn’t do it to a stranger," she added. "He knows me."

At the press conference on Wednesday, Essig said the 81-year-old woman awoke to a noise in her living room, and upon entering her living room, she observed her neighbor in her apartment. 

The suspect began to choke and punch her until she lost consciousness. When she was treated at the local hospital, it was discovered that she had a dislocated jaw and various clothing items were missing. Detectives from the Special Victims Division were quickly able to apprehend Johnson, Essig added.  

Detectives returned a search warrant for his apartment and his person. Recovered was a bloody T-shirt and Johnson’s bloody clothing, Essig said. 

Essig detailed Johnson’s nine prior arrests. He pleaded guilty and served one year for sexually abusing a five-year-old girl in August 2006 – that crime for which he became a registered sex offender. 

Johnson was also arrested in August 2021 for strangulation, in March 2003 for an assault, in June 1995 for an attempted murder for which he pleaded guilty to assault, in February 1994 for grand larceny, and three more arrests in January, March and September 1991 for grand larceny and assault, Essig said. 

Regarding the sexual abuse of a five-year-old and the possible rape of the 81-year-old neighbor, Essig said Johnson is accused of "pretty despicable crime against the kid and the woman."

#nunyas news

[menalez]

"i mean that when we go to the systematic level, such as workplace, healthcare, legal system, etc bi people do not face biphobia but rather homophobia and for bi women also misogyny. i mean that biphobia exists at an interpersonal level, not a systematic one."

That didn't answer the question at all though.... so you do think biphobia is politically irrelevant or not? Because that's what "it's just interpersonal" implies to me - no pattern, no relevance, no real problem - like "anti-white" or "anti-straight" prejudice. Those don't materially affect those groups so they are not politically relevant. Do you think biphobia is irrelevant to bi people's material well-being?

When bi people experience higher rates of poverty, sexual assault, domestic abuse, or lower wages, mental health statistics, etc. is that still just interpersonal and politically irrelevant? Are those things relevant but simply less urgent if it's a bi person because their privilege will "help them" with being raped, or poverty, or whatever the issue? Does this mean it's useless or unimportant for bisexuals to work on their issues?

OR is it just homophobia? And then what do you think about people that say bisexuals don't need to have a voice in discussing homophobia because they're not the "real" victims? If it's just homophobia, is it wrong for bi people to interpret their abuse through a bi lens? What if the incident stems from biphobic motivations from bosses, boyfriends, etc? I mean you agree those prejudices can exist interpersonally, so why would people - bosses, boyfriends, parents, judges, jurists, etc - not act on those beliefs in a way that lead to material costs for bi people? Is it "just" homophobia even if it's about experiences (IPV) bi people are much more prone than gay people to experience? is what happened to Amber Heard not systemic biphobia and misogyny - really homophobia and misogyny despite being so bisexual specific? Does that mean lesbian women should get an equal or greater voice in that situation? Or was AH's situation still just interpersonal despite being a national concern for weeks? Does it all just being homophobia mean bisexual people's viewpoints into the specific of their experiences are always politically worthless - I mean, why not just focus on gay people if it's "just" homophobia and bisexuality is an irrelevant distraction? Or are bisexuals actually valuable in defining and resolving homophobia? Are bisexual-dominant experiences still part of 'homophobia'? Should bisexuals be given a greater voice in discussing those or no?

Or, third option, is the message just that when it's assigned importance due to severity or relatability it can be considered homophobia, but if it's deemed unimportant then it's just biphobia? And motivations, context, and the victim are irrelevant to this? Wouldn't this just an implicit admission that bisexual trauma is just less important?

Are there options I'm not seeing?

i mean if u want to perceive "this type of prejudice exists at an interpersonal level but not a systematic one" as "no pattern, no relevance, no problem" then that's just on you honestly bc none of what i said even implied that. "its on an interpersonal not systematic level" means there aren't laws targetting people for their bisexuality, there isn't a separation on a systematic level on the rights of same sex attracted people based on how many sexes you're attracted to. that's what it means and its pretty direct. i can bring up, for example, that anti-asian racism is real but when we go to the systematic level in some countries, that while asian people continue to face racism, it being specifically because they're asian rather than because they're not white, often is at an interpersonal rather than systematic level. this doesn't mean "its not relevant / not important / there's no pattern". asian people have been facing a spike in hate crimes and abuse, how is that not relevant nor important? something existing at an interpersonal level and not being a form of systematic oppression doesn't mean its unimportant. that's your own biases and assumptions which you placed onto my statements. does it mean they don't face racism at a systematic level anymore? no it doesn't, because they absolutely do. it's just often based on being grouped with other non-white people. sometimes its because of being grouped with other foriegners. and so on.

what do you think about people that say bisexuals don't need to have a voice in discussing homophobia because they're not the "real" victims?

obviously i would disagree with it.

If it's just homophobia, is it wrong for bi people to interpret their abuse through a bi lens?

i dont even know what that means.

What if the incident stems from biphobic motivations from bosses, boyfriends, etc? I mean you agree those prejudices can exist interpersonally, so why would people - bosses, boyfriends, parents, judges, jurists, etc - not act on those beliefs in a way that lead to material costs for bi people?

boyfriends is interpersonal lol. bosses and judges and jurists often act on specifically devaluing same sex attraction. bi people face homophobia, nowhere did i deny this.

Is it "just" homophobia even if it's about experiences (IPV) bi people are much more prone than gay people to experience?

interpersonal + its homophobia. most of bi women's abusers, overwhelmingly so, are men. lesbians are far less likely to date men for obvious reasons so it explains the difference in IPV. straight women also face more IPV than lesbians because of similar reasons.

is what happened to Amber Heard not systemic biphobia and misogyny - really homophobia and misogyny despite being so bisexual specific?

a lot of it was very blatantly homophobic and misogynistic...............these questions are getting repetitive

Does that mean lesbian women should get an equal or greater voice in that situation?

on...the situation... of a bi woman being abused?????? why tf would we get an equal or greater voice in something that affected a bi woman lmao...u guys do know theres like 2x as many bi women as there are lesbians right...our voices aren't greater than yours to begin with

Or was AH's situation still just interpersonal despite being a national concern for weeks?

i feel like you intentionally ignored the part of my statement which YOU QUOTED: "we go to the systematic level... bi people... face... homophobia and for bi women also misogyny"

Does it all just being homophobia mean bisexual people's viewpoints into the specific of their experiences are always politically worthless - I mean, why not just focus on gay people if it's "just" homophobia and bisexuality is an irrelevant distraction? Or are bisexuals actually valuable in defining and resolving homophobia? Are bisexual-dominant experiences still part of 'homophobia'? Should bisexuals be given a greater voice in discussing those or no?

question: do you think racism doesn't matter and only specific poc can speak on racism? poc all face systematic racism, but some of us face additional things at a systematic level. does that mean that those of us who dont face such things are irrelevant and shouldn't ever speak on racism? that their voices don't matter? that they have no place in speaking of their own experiences with racism? does it mean for what we face to have value, we must have a specific name for the racism we face and we need to specifically be treated differently on a systematic level from other poc on the basis of our race for our experiences to matter? like this is what im getting from your arguments right now.

Or, third option, is the message just that when it's assigned importance due to severity or relatability it can be considered homophobia, but if it's deemed unimportant then it's just biphobia? And motivations, context, and the victim are irrelevant to this? Wouldn't this just an implicit admission that bisexual trauma is just less important?

honestly its obvious you came into my inbox with a specific opinion and a desire to get me to hold that opinion. its obvious you think that only systematic oppression is something worthy of concern and if something isn't a systematic oppression then it means it doesn't matter. i don't know why you're treating oppression this way or why you think prejudices don't matter unless they're perpetuated at a higher and systematic level. theres plenty of experiences i face which are moreso prejudices rather than systematic oppression and ive never seen it as unimportant just because its not being perpetuated at a legal level, workplace level, healthcare level, etc but if thats how you feel then thats how you feel. i dont appreciate you projecting that onto me and writing paragraphs upon paragraphs basically attempting to overwhelm me with questions which are repetitive and completely based in your own biases and assumptions.

[96thdayofrage]

“He came in the store after me, and said the remark, go back to where y’all came from, and I’m tired of y’all kind,” McCoy said.

McCoy says Williamson directed his anger toward her and started berating her with racist comments, and then got in her face. “I was like, sir, can you just back up and he said he had his gun in his car and I said, I’ll call my dad,” McCoy said.

Surveillance video captured what happened next that left McCoy in complete shock as Williamson started hitting McCoy repeatedly in the face. The aftermath of the assault left the 23-year-old bruised and swollen on parts of her face and eyes.

“She’s obviously still traumatized by this event and is still going through it as you can plainly see,” said Ben Frazier, civil rights activist and founder of North Florida Coalition, who is also advocating for McCoy.

Frazier draws a connection between what happened to McCoy and what happened just two days earlier in Buffalo, New York, when another white man unleashed a racist attack killing 10 Black people inside a grocery store.

“We recognize there is a direct connection between what happened in Buffalo and what happened in Jacksonville, Florida,” Frazier said.

Frazier says racial violence has been part of the America’s history for generations. This coincides with recent Justice Department data that shows anti-Black hate crimes and incidents spiking since 2020, far surpassing any other racial or ethnic group.

Data released last year shows anti-Black hate crimes reaching 2,871 reported incidents, which is up from 2019 figure of 1,930 reported incidents. Reported anti-white hate crimes and incidents were 869, Anti-Latino hate crimes and incidents were 517, Anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents were 279.

“To be attacked brutally and viciously by a white man who had nothing on his mind but perpetuating the kind of racism and discriminatory violence and terror,” Frazier said.

Both McCoy and Frazier say they want Williamson to face federal hate crime charges for the attack. “We’re demanding that the FBI investigate this, and the Justice Department call it exactly what it is; it is in fact a hate crime,” Frazier said.

“I just hope he actually gets charged,” McCoy said.

Jacksonville Sheriff’s deputies arrested Williamson on Friday, four days after the attack, and charged him with battery for the attack and was booked into a pre-trial detention facility. WJXT reported Williamson appeared before a judge on May 21, and was ordered to be held on a $20,000 bond.

[mrmallard]

There's a lot I want to talk about regarding the Israel/Palestine thing happening at the moment.

On top of Palestinian support, I do believe that people are taking the opportunity to be antisemitic and I don't think that's acceptable. I saw it directly with an emotional pro-Palestine post I made where the first person who liked the post was reblogging pro-Israel posts and saying stuff like "who does Israel have to fear, Hitler?" with a bunch of laughing emojis. I'm still staunchly pro-Palestine, considering the long context of anti-Palestinian violence and an active ethnic cleansing effort against them which exists alongside Hamas taking hostages - but there are still people taking this opportunity to go full mask-off antisemite, and I disagree to the fullest extent with people who decide that's acceptable.

Like in my mind, there are two recent cases where strong condemnation against a large body of people and efforts to criticize an ongoing wrongdoing led to bigots empowering their bigoted opinions. That's the case of Uyghur concentration camps in China, and a rash of anti-Asian hate crimes in America.

Like I'm critical of the Chinese government for the persecution, detainment and crimes against the Uyghur people, on top of their false imprisonment of pro-democracy scholars and authors like Australia's Yang Hengjun, and purported cyber attacks against Australian universities for decades. Pro-CCP stooges will often try to discredit people accusing them of crimes against humanity by citing sinophobia - and the biggest issue is that from the largest proponents of anti-Asian bigotry like Donald "China Flu" Trump to the small, blue-collar bigots who've been conditioned to hate the Chinese people, there is a large, vocal crowd of people who are ready to use a big issue to say racist shit about China. Like there's an attempt to go after a totalitarian government, who actively suppresses its people, which is easily spoiled by a large enough contingent of people just saying bigoted shit about the Chinese people.

On a smaller scale, you had a rash of anti-Asian hate crimes being committed in America in the wake of COVID - and I saw people posting on GameFAQs, every day, that the perpetrators of these crimes were predominantly black. You had them playing up racial tensions between like Korean store-owners and black protestors during the LA Riots, and you had a lot of people coming out of the woodwork to use increasingly strong language to condemn the black perpetrators of anti-Asian hate crimes - to the point of deflecting and deferring from white perpetrators, so they could keep saying increasingly violent and extreme shit about punishing black criminals.

Good causes - protesting crimes against humanity in China and spotlighting bigoted violence against a racial minority in America - hijacked by racists and right-wingers and shit to be bigoted fuckfaces.

Like I said, I'm staunchly pro-Palestine and I'm incredibly critical of the state of Israel for the decades of ethnic cleansing and land theft from the Palestinian people. This is not a new issue, nor is this the first big broadcasted push of Israeli violence against Palestine in the past five years. It's fresh in my mind, and I wholly disagree with Israeli aggression against Palestine and its people.

I won't be a stool pigeon for bad-faith actors looking to share an antisemitic atmosphere, especially considering the Jewish protestors who are actively opposing Israel's actions in Gaza. Jewish protestors are getting arrested for standing up for the Palestinian people, and you have people trolling Jews about Hitler and the Holocaust. It's not right.

This is not "both-sides"ing the conversation; I'm vocal about my disagreement with Israel's actions against Gaza and the Palestinian people. I do, however, see an increase in blatant anti-semitism using this violence to prop up bigotry and to harass anyone of the Jewish faith they can find. But like my criticism of the CCP's actions against the Uyghur people and their control of Taiwan, I'm critical of Israel's violence against the Palestinian people; I have no inherent hate in my heart for the people of China or that culture, as I have no inherent hate in my heart for people of the Jewish faith and/or people within Israel itself who are against this violence.

But my criticism of the governments perpetuating that violence is very valid, and it's frustrating to see people take the opportunity not to highlight the actual issues and crimes and shit, but just to use what's happening to be bigots. It's unacceptable.

[jollysailorswan]

I posted 1,947 times in 2022

That's 134 more posts than 2021!

74 posts created (4%)

1,873 posts reblogged (96%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

I tagged 361 of my posts in 2022

#my posts - 43 posts

#wow - 4 posts

#bad buddy - 3 posts

#love him - 2 posts

#😭😭😭😭😭 - 2 posts

#soft - 2 posts

#yoongi legend - 2 posts

#me every time wai appeared on screen - 2 posts

#yeah - 2 posts

#i love thisbfic so much - 1 post

Longest Tag: 127 characters

#kiss scenes can be forced and weird and really bad cause either the actors cant make it work or theyre just terrible at kissing

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Back to our regular schedule with everyone on here ignoring me 🥰

3 notes - Posted May 14, 2022

#4

BTS going to the White House, invited into the Oval Office to discuss with the US president about anti-Asian hate crimes and racism was not in my 2022 bingo card

3 notes - Posted May 31, 2022

#3

This blatant fraud happening right in front of our eyes, making a mockery of BTS’ reach and actual achievements because someone paid you change the rules ONLY for BTS and rewrite history is so disgusting. I’m honestly so upset about this, because the “artists” gaining over this bullshit is the laziest most untalented group of individuals parading as an idol group right now

I hope Karma hits everyone involved like a truck

4 notes - Posted December 1, 2022

#2

some thoughts on Pat’s relationship with his dad cause i’m writing something and someone else has probably said this before but anyway

the reason why Ming maintained the feud with Dissaya’s family was probably because he was ashamed of what he did and didn’t want his kids to know about it. he did not allow Pat and Pa to go anywhere near close to Pran because of the fear that they would discover the rotten shit he did to Dissaya. 

Ming has an unhealthy obsession with his reputation. Pushing Pat to always make sure he doesn’t tarnish his father’s name and always comes first, especially when competing against Pran:

1. having his son be number 1 at everything surely meant that he too deserved that scholarship and he didn’t cheat to get it

2. reminding his son again and again to follow his footsteps was a way to remind him of how great his dad is (in his mind) so that Pat never questions Ming and if Pat were to find out the truth, he would trust his father not the jealous neighbours.

I can think of two possible reasons why he acted like that. One would be that he just didn’t want to disappoint his kids but i feel like if it was just that he would have at least apologised when the truth came out. The other is that as we know Ming toxic masculinity kind of guy. and a man who thinks a lot about himself would never allow for anything to ruin his tough and awesome guy image

how his kids ended up as good as they did was a miracle tbh

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My #1 post of 2022

I'm cursed to compare every single show I watch to ouat and point out how much ouat was lacking in script, character development and emotional growth

I'm still haunted by the way I broke up with that show

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[anth3045]

Fear and Stigma

 Looking at how COVID information was being spread, we got to experience first-hand how the act of ‘creating others’ takes place - from the lack of transparency from governments leading to conspiracy theories (“Wuhan Virus” or “Chinese Flu” as early titles for COVID), to the rise in anti-Asian propaganda that brought to the forefront of society & many public figures who were spreading hateful sentiments of xenophobia

The trend of exoticizing, racializing and placing blame on ‘other’ groups re-emerged during COVID. With COVID19, there was a distinction that Chinese people carried the virus and were somehow inherently passing it on to the rest of the world. It is a quick and easy way out through fear and a lack of knowledge to place blame on these singled-out groups, we could argue that lockdowns/quarantine periods happened both out of a measure of public safety, but also as a political show of power; reminding people that despite the chaos, the state still held absolute power and influence over society. (sometimes shown through force)

The past 3 years have been a heavy time of collective fear, stigmatization and violent racialization. Seeing a rise in discrimination across North America, from overtly violent hate crimes to subliminal displays such as people physically distancing themselves from Asians in public spaces, to even the commodification or media exploitation of Asian discrimination that filtered in through major social media platforms and even independent & luxury brands that profited off of the othering of Asian people. Asians worldwide were subjected to racial slurs, and physical attacks, they were denied entry into businesses, and publicly ignored/avoided. Even in Asian countries, racism was perpetuated against African migrants as well, with many being evicted from their apartments, refused entry into schools and businesses, even political figures were blaming the virus’ spread on the African immigrants who were sailing into the country.

#Chanelle

[jennymanrique]

Cross-Racial Solidarity Against Racist Violence: The Legacy of Vincent Chin

Forty years ago, on the eve of his wedding, a young Chinese American named Vincent Chin was fatally beaten with a baseball bat on the streets of Detroit by two white men shouting anti-Asian slurs. The miscarriage of justice that followed – neither assailant served a day in jail for the crime – marked the birth of the modern-day Asian American civil rights movement.

What made Chin’s killing even more egregious, said Helen Zia, author and veteran activist for AAPI and LGBTQ communities who worked in Detroit at the time of Chin’s murder, was that “there was no question in anybody’s minds, had the killers been black or Asian, had they not been white, they would have gone to prison for a very long time. So the sense of injustice was great.”

Zia spoke at an Ethnic Media Services briefing on May 27th to highlight plans for a special 40th anniversary commemoration of Chin’s death in Detroit (June 16-19) and efforts to build stronger cross-racial solidarity to confront today’s surge in racist violence.On June 19, 1982 Vincent Chin was beaten in a racially-motivated attack in Detroit, Michigan. The perpetrators, both of whom were white, were released on probation.

Noting the parallels between 1982 and 2022, Zia recalled that Chin’s murder occurred amidst mounting public fears that manufacturing jobs were relocating to Asia even as inflation, fueled by an oil crisis, had already hit 20%. Meanwhile the Reagan administration was dismantling social safety programs such as unemployment benefits, food stamps, and mental health services – policies whose impacts are still being felt today.

“There were people in the C-suites, the heads of the auto industries, people in the halls of Congress saying we are at war because Japan makes fuel efficient cars,” said Zia, ignoring the fact that German cars were even more fuel efficient. “It was a scapegoat to blame some external force for the difficulties that were happening internally in America.”

That has happened repeatedly in American history, Zia noted, pointing to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that banned Chinese laborers from immigrating to the U.S., and the Trump administration’s national security program that focused counterintelligence resources on fighting “Chinese espionage.”

Then, as now, Asian Americans came together with Black Americans, Arab Americans, and people from all walks of life, social classes, and faiths to denounce racist violence, Zia said, despite concentrated efforts to keep people divided, including misinformation implying that much of the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes are committed by Blacks. 

‘Replacement theory’ drives racist-fueled attacks

Zia noted that the majority of assailants against Asians are white and that Black leaders – from Jesse Jackson to Stacey Abrams to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – have denounced Asian violence, even as Asians have mobilized to support the Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George’s Floyd murder.

“A study done by the University of Michigan that came out in the summer of 2021 shows that 75% of the attackers of Asian Americans are white,” said John C. Yang, president and CEO, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC).

https://www.youtube.com/embed/IYRIV-WatSE?feature=oembedAuthor and activist Helen Zia discusses America’s history of scapegoating Asian Americans in times of economic and social crisis.

“This hate is based on the ‘replacement theory’ in which extremists argue that all of our communities of color are seeking to replace white Christian males with guns,” Yang noted. “There’s a great deal of despair, but we’ll do all we can to help dismantle it.”

Yang spoke of the strong support he personally received from Black, Latino and Native American civil rights leaders following incidents such as the mass shooting of Asian beauticians in Atlanta last year.  “There is an allyship I found among my communities of color,” he added.

Lisa Cylar Barrett, director of Policy at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, singled out “a running narrative” that holds that if one group gets ahead automatically, another group is left out or falls behind. The narrative is perpetuated by “a white power structure that seeks to maintain control and is fearful of the growing communities of color in this country.”

“We’ve had folks in political offices and media stations, corporate representatives creating an environment where misinformation and disinformation has become normalized,” Barrett said. “And we have to do more to push back against that narrative with stories that really help folks see the humanity in one another.”

Poor data on hate crimes

Michael German, a fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program who formerly investigated white supremacists for the FBI, argues that until there is more accurate official data on hate crimes, “people won’t understand that white racism is much more common in our society, that it in many ways is foundational in our society.” 

Right now, he called official data on hate crimes “so poor.”

Despite passage of the Hate Crime Statistics Act in 1990, requiring the Department of Justice to collect “accurate data,” the DOJ’s policy has been to defer the investigation of hate crimes to state and local law enforcement, though only about 15% of police departments acknowledge such crimes occur within their jurisdiction, German pointed out.

While the Bureau of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey reports an average of 230,000 violent hate crimes a year, the DOJ prosecutes just 25 defendants a year.

“There were always racist dog whistles that politicians would use to try to get votes,” German said. “But what’s occurring now is that they are actually openly supporting these causes, appearing at campaign events with members of right-wing militant groups.”

Speakers noted that the Biden-Harris administration has issued a directive to federal agencies to look at how they can “make racial equity real.” The Justice Department, meanwhile, is expected to release several new initiatives in the coming week aimed at addressing the recent rise in hate crimes that are mostly targeting Black and AAPI communities.

These efforts need to permeate down to other elected officials in legislatures and school boards, and to the community, the speakers agreed.

Zia also pointed to states like Illinois and New Jersey that passed bills to create curriculums for K-12 that acknowledge the real history of Asian Americans. At least nine other states are discussing similar initiatives.

Events commemorating Vincent Chin

Vincent Chin’s legacy will be honored through a series of live streaming events at Vincentchin.org. The site includes a guide translated into several Asian languages that tell the stories of cross-racial solidarity and understanding among communities and the history of civil rights in America.

Alongside other Asian-American organizations, AAJC is leading the “Unity March” on June 25, a multicultural event where Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Pacific Islander, LGBTQ+, Muslim, Sikh Arab, and Jewish people will come together in Washington D.C. to demand cultural equity and racial justice.

Originally published here

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[beardedmrbean]

DALLAS (AP) — The girlfriend of a man arrested Tuesday in a shooting that wounded three women of Asian descent in a hair salon in Dallas’ Koreatown told police that he has delusions that Asian Americans are trying to harm him, an arrest warrant affidavit states.

Jeremy Smith faces three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said. Smith is being held on $300,000 bond, according to jail records that do not list an attorney for him. In public records, his age is listed as both 36 and 37.

When asked at a news conference Tuesday if he considered the shooting an issue of racism, mental health or both, Dallas police Chief Eddie Garcia said it’s too early to tell.

“Right now, it’s an issue of hate. It’s a hate crime. However that manifests itself, I’m not here to say that. I can tell you that I know our community sees it as a hate crime. I see it as a hate crime and so do our men and women,” Garcia said.

Earlier Tuesday, the FBI said it has opened a federal hate crime investigation along with federal prosecutors in Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights division.

Police have said the shooting last Wednesday at Hair World Salon might be connected to two previous drive-by shootings at businesses run by Asian Americans. But Garcia said Tuesday that police are still investigating whether Smith, who is Black, was involved. The description of the suspect’s vehicle was similar in all three shootings.

According to the affidavit, Smith’s girlfriend told detectives that he had been delusional about Asian Americans ever since being involved in a car crash two years ago with a man of Asian descent. She said he had been admitted to several mental health facilities because of the delusions.

Whenever Smith is around an Asian American, “he begins having delusions that the Asian mob is after him or attempting to harm him,” his girlfriend told police. She said he was fired for “verbally attacking” his boss, who was of Asian descent.

Garcia declined to comment on whether Smith has been diagnosed with a mental illness or whether Smith legally obtained the gun used in the shooting, saying both questions are still being investigated.

The shooting in Dallas occurred a few days before a white gunman killed 10 Black people Saturday at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and a gunman who authorities said was motivated by political hatred for Taiwan killed one person and wounded five Sunday at a southern California church where mostly elderly Taiwanese parishioners had gathered.

Anti-Asian violence has risen sharply in recent years amid the pandemic of COVID-19, which was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Last year, six women of Asian descent were among the eight killed in a shooting at massage businesses in and near Atlanta, heightening anger and fear among Asian Americans. In February, a man from Midland, 330 miles (531 kilometers) west of Dallas, pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes for an attack in 2020 on an Asian family because he believed they were Chinese and responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.

The salon in Dallas where the shooting happened is in the heart of Koreatown, which is in a part of the city that was transformed in the 1980s from an industrial area to a thriving district with shopping, dining, markets, medical offices and salons.

Authorities have said a man dressed all in black opened fire in the salon, then drove away in a maroon minivan. Garcia said investigators found that a similar vehicle had been reported as involved in two other recent shootings. Someone opened fire in an April 2 drive-by near the salon and Garcia said a similar vehicle was also linked to a May 10 shooting about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of there. No one was injured in either of those shootings.

Garcia said the suspect walked into the salon with a .22-caliber rifle and fired about 13 times. One woman was injured in her arm, one in her foot and another in her lower back, he said. They have all been released from the hospital and are recovering, according to police.

One of the women injured in the shooting spoke Monday night at a community meeting with police. Her arm in a sling, she said in Korean that she was worried about how she would continue to make a living.

“There are lives that have changed forever because of this,” Garcia said Tuesday.

Police Sr. Cpl. Soo Nam also addressed the reporters at Tuesday’s news conference, delivering a statement on the arrest in Korean for Texas-based Korean-language journalists in attendance. Garcia said the department has 10 officers who speak Korean.

Dozens of people had filled a room at the Korean Culture Center of Dallas on Monday evening for the town hall meeting with police on safety. At the meeting, Garcia had assured attendees that detectives were working nonstop on the case. Some attendees expressed thanks to police while others asked questions on what was being done to make the community safer.

John Lee, a board member and previous president of the Greater Dallas Korean American Chamber of Commerce, said he thought it was healing for attendees get reassurances from police. He noted some attendees “were more angry and let it be known and some were a little more appreciative.”

“I think the emotions ran the entire gamut from anger to pain to fear to all of that,” Lee said.

#nunyas news #should be easy enough to confirm this

[joshualunacreations]

Western media downplays anti-Asian racism and manipulates narratives about it in order to reinforce the Model Minority Myth, the Asian gender divide, and geopolitical tensions in Asia. Even in so-called progressive outlets, U.S. media invokes Orientalism and even gendered depictions of Asian countries to create a contrast: Evil Misogynist Asia vs. Benevolent White Male West. The goal is to dehumanize Asians, deify whiteness, and justify warmongering against Asia. Whenever diasporic Asians are harmed by racist violence, U.S. media takes one of three approaches: 1) ignoring the incident, 2) reporting on the incident but erasing the Asianness of victims, or 3) reporting on the incident but questioning whether it's really racism to blame. 

To ensure AsAms don't work together to push back against this, U.S. policies and propaganda create a gender divide. The 1942-1943 Mixed Marriage Policy ranks Asians, with monoracial Asian men the least valuable and most threatening. This ranking still exists.

Four years ago, I made a sincere effort to help heal this gender divide by pointing out how all AsAms were hurting and at risk of falling into a cycle of retribution. Instead of taking accountability, AsAms in power targeted, harassed and blacklisted me.

I—along with anyone else who dared to speak up—was repeatedly scolded with the refrain that the harm Asian men experience is not meaningful. Yet looking at the recent data and media narratives about anti-Asian hate crimes, we now have damning evidence of how untrue that is. In my previous post, I did an in-depth analysis of anti-Asian hate crimes and the role of Stop AAPI Hate as a primary source of data collection. Now I want to talk about how journalists—especially AsAms—have skewed this data into a violently racist narrative. After the Atlanta shootings, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) shaped the media narrative about Atlanta and anti-Asian hate crimes in general. The problem is that they relied on Stop AAPI Hate data—which over-prioritizes East Asian women over other AAPI victims.

There's more than sufficient evidence from trustworthy sources like AAPI Data to show Asian men are as likely to be victims of hate crimes as Asian women and also more likely to experience physical assault. So why isn't AAJA promoting this narrative? One look at the governing boards of AAJA says a lot. For an organization that is supposed to promote inclusivity of Asian voices in media, there aren't many Asian men represented. Not only that, but there are more white men than actual Asian men seated in the Asia division.

This erasure of Asian men in anti-Asian hate crime narratives is eerily similar to what happened with my comic Reconciliasian and how Asians in power erased Asian men back then too. Seeing AAJA's guidance on the Atlanta shootings provides new insight. What I thought was a fringe mindset among a handful of AsAm journalists was actually a product of top-down marching orders sent out to all AsAm journalists, which then gets disseminated as the mainstream narrative. This intentional erasure of Asian men is racist and violent. It's ironic that AsAm leaders push for restorative justice for anti-Asian hate crimes—which emphasizes communication between the perpetrator and victim—yet none of them has owned up to how much harm they've caused with their bias. Whenever they're caught, they just go quiet. That's the part of the betrayal that hurts the most. Violent perpetrators of anti-Asian hate crimes get more sensitivity than actual Asian male victims of hate crimes. I can't even put into words how heartbroken and angry I am to see this racist abuse play out again and again. For example, I never forgot the contrast in Juju Chang's interview of two Atlanta shooting victim's children. To a daughter she says "your mom would be very proud of you" and to a son she says "what do you think your mother sacrificed for your benefit?" The lack of empathy towards Asian men is so normalized in media narratives that it's not even questioned. Here's a person who lost his mom to a violent hate crime, yet an AsAm journalist felt the need to imply he should feel shame—which is so inappropriate to ask of anyone. The point of these posts isn't to say East Asian women or AAPI women in general shouldn't get attention and resources. It's to correct the harm of AsAm leaders erasing Asian men, and to make sure all AAPI can get meaningful victim support, resources, and media attention. But I'm not holding my breath. This requires big changes—including giving Asian men like me a voice—and so far, Asian American leaders have demonstrated strong resistance to holding themselves and their friends accountable. They profit off the harm, and want to continue doing so. So I anticipate they'll do what they'll usually do. Quietly lurk on my posts, steal the content, & then speak over me and other people they've harmed in order to portray themselves as the heroes who came in to save the day. With fellow AsAms like these, who needs enemies? (Please don’t repost or edit my art. Reblogs are always appreciated.)If you enjoy my comics, please pledge to my Patreon or donate to my Paypal. I lost my publisher for trying to publish these strips, so your support keeps me going until I can find a new publisher/lit agent https://twitter.com/Joshua_Luna/status/1134522555744866304 https://patreon.com/joshualuna https://www.paypal.com/paypalme2/JoshuaLunaComics

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