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edenfenixblogs · 3 months

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Kinda crazy how any post I make about my experience of antisemitism — whether or not it mentions Israel — immediately becomes inundated with comments about Palestinian pain and suffering. Do you really not see how inappropriate that is, people?

When Black People post about their experience of racism, it’s not OK to come in to that space and talk about, idk, war in Sudan.

When Asian People talk about their experience of racism, it’s not appropriate to come into that space and start talking about China’s treatment of Uyghur people or North Korean aggression.

When Muslim people talk about their experience of Islamophobia, it’s not OK to come into that space and start talking about all the horrible things Isis or Al Qaeda have done.

When a trans person starts talking about their experience of transphobia, it’s not OK to come into that space and start talking about the latest horrible thing Caitlyn Jenner said.

Why are you able to understand this when it comes to every other group, but posts about Jewish pain are always filled with arguments about Palestine that blatantly imply that actually—my group, Jews—actually deserve the hatred we receive?

Spoiler alert: It’s because you’re antisemitic and will double down on your beliefs 100000 times to prove to yourself that you’re not, because actually confronting that you have hateful beliefs is too scary for you.

I’m sorry if it messes with your sense of self righteous inherent goodness, but you have and perpetuate systemic antisemitism just like you have all other forms of systemic bigotry. And if you don’t address it, that makes you a bigot on purpose. Deal with your hatred and stop being horrible to Jews.

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #systemic racism #bigotry #i/p #Israel #Palestine #anti-black racism #anti-Asian racism #islamophobia

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joshualunacreations · 1 year

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In 2022, Corinne Tan was announced as the American Girl Doll of the Year and heavily promoted as a way of raising awareness about anti-Asian racism during COVID. But what message did her story send?

When Corinne Tan debuted, AsAms were offended by the synopsis and how it centered a white man in what's supposed to be a COVID racism story. Once I heard the book had been fast tracked for two live-action specials on HBO Max and Cartoon Network, I knew more harm was coming. In the rare instances Western media talks about anti-Asian racism, it's downplayed. Instead, narratives are used to reinforce the 1) Model Minority Myth, 2) Asian gender divide, and 3) "correct" levels of assimilation. Unsurprisingly, Corinne Tan’s story does all of these.

There's a place for stories about divorce and blended families, but this story isn't it. COVID racism is specifically about the threat of AAPI being verbally or physically assaulted by non-AAPI. The author's choice to emphasize conflict within an Asian family is inappropriate.

Instead of empathizing with David Tan's inability to work during the pandemic—a real problem that has devastated many AAPI families and businesses—it's the reason Judy divorces him. The story not only erases racism as a reason for AAPI pandemic joblessness, but victim-blames. It implies her parents have an antagonistic relationship because her dad isn't white and rich, and that makes him an inferior romantic partner. Despite referencing a slur meant for Asian men, the story never acknowledges that her dad experiences racism too.

Another appalling aspect is how Corinne, an 11-year-old girl, is responsible for teaching a grown white man to empathize with her experiences of racism—because her mom won't. Not only does Judy never talk to Arne about racism, she lets him gaslight Corinne in front of her. Judy seems fixated on wealth and achievement over her daughters' emotional safety. When the family lived with David, the walls were decorated with the daughters' artwork. In Arne's house, Judy is concerned with protecting the aesthetic chosen by Arne's professional decorator.

This is why the Eileen Gu poster becomes such a sticking point. While David encourages his daughters to embrace Chinese culture in everything, Judy seems to apply it only to her restaurant. Is it because Arne tells her he hoped marrying a chef would mean never buying takeout?

Meanwhile, Arne, a rich white businessman—who calls himself Goldilocks and whose behavior the author describes as "clueless" racism—gets sympathetic treatment. His fear of heights and dogs is equated to Corinne's fear of racists, as if it's a phobia to overcome via willpower.

Recall that the purpose of Corinne Tan's story is to educate about AAPI experiences with racism during COVID. Mattel, owner of American Girl, hired a panel of AsAm academics and consultants to tell her story with "authenticity and accuracy." So how did it turn out so harmful?

It's because the AsAm consultants for this project and many similar projects—like Dr. Jennifer Ho—are out-of-touch with our community. Insulated by wealth and/or whiteness they've chosen, they think they've acknowledged their privilege, but their work shows they're still reinforcing it.

The broader problem is that racist and misogynist white men control media. Regardless of gender, sexuality, or marital status, AAPI are given media power only when they internalize and repeat white men’s messaging. This isn't limited to fiction—it affects real-life activism too.

A picture says a thousand words, and it speaks volumes that Stop AAPI Hate chose to literally center white men in the photo accompanying their hate crime data report summarizing the past two years. Of those "thousands of voices," it isn't hard to guess who's prioritized. Stop AAPI Hate pushes the same message as Corinne Tan's story: racist white men deserve more humanity and sympathy than actual AAPI male victims. Hating and erasing AAPI men is required to show that you're a "safe" Asian deserving of resources and support. (see my data thread about how hate crime data is manipulated to erase AAPI men as victims)

It's bad enough that an entire gender is being cut out from resources and empathy, but what Corinne Tan’s story reveals is another disturbing trend: AAPI youth are being groomed into normalizing having racist white men in their lives, specifically in their families and homes.

Corinne Tan is a middle grade story (ages 8-12). For its consulting, Mattel partnered with AAPI Youth Rising, a non-profit led by AAPI middle schoolers. At the time, Dr. Ho was president of the Association for Asian American Studies, which helps shape AsAm studies in schools. It's not a stretch to think Corinne's mom Judy, who puts Corinne in harm's way by refusing to address her white husband’s "clueless” racism, is reflective of the behavior of AAPI adults involved in Stop AAPI Hate and other AsAm orgs—they gave the story their stamp of approval.

Anti-Asian hate crimes against AAPI should've brought the community closer together. Instead, we've been segregated further, and the AAPI who hurt the community the most have hoarded the empathy, media attention, and resources for themselves. How can any of us heal like this?

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newsfromstolenland · 1 year

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/2-years-into-the-pandemic-anti-asian-hate-is-still-on-the-rise-in-canada-report-shows-1.6404034

Myka Jaymalin says she remembers the final straw that made her quit her customer-service job in the summer of 2020. Working in a downtown Toronto restaurant, she says she was used to one-off confrontations with some diners. But the aggression from one customer that day was different. "He told me: 'If you can't f--king speak English — if you can't understand English — then why would you even work in this industry?'" said Jaymaylin, who is now the chairperson of Anakbayan Toronto, a Filipino youth organization. Advocates say the kind of aggression Jaymalin faced is not only common for Asian people, many of whom have been working in public-facing and precarious jobs throughout the pandemic, it can escalate into violence. They've been ringing the alarm since attacks on Asians began after the first known COVID-19 cases were discovered in China, and when six Asian women were killed in a series of shootings in the Atlanta area last year. Despite this, a new report shows incidents of anti-Asian racism in Canada are increasing.

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

#asks #anonymous #mine #cdnpoli #racism #anti-asian racism #xenophobia #sinophobia

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lindira · 2 months

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Hey, you don't need to reply to this, but I happened to see your tags about fandom shitting extra on Cazador because he's Asian and... Basically as an Asian woman I agree. If he looked like Castlevania's Dracula, there'd still be people on their knees for him and making excuses like "oh well I hate Astarion" or something weak like that. There's no other real point to this other than I felt those tags deep in my soul lol

I'll reply, because I like thoughtful discussion. For the curious, Anon is talking about the below tags I wrote on my reblog of this post:

#i honestly wonder if the fandom’s reaction to cazador is because he’s asian#and asians are often perceived as weak or unmanly or non-threatening#i think if he were white but still thin and lithe the fandom would be all over him#much like how they go crazy for astarion#cuz it’s not that cazador is ugly cuz he’s not#though his weasely voice certainly exacerbates the ‘he’s just a slimy little guy’ thing#but I definitely think the fandom doesn’t take him as seriously partly because he’s asian

Granted, there are still people who have the hots for Cazador... which is what it is, really - YKINMK. But there are considerably fewer so than, say, Abdirak or He Who Was or Nere who all have a similar body type and vibe but who I've seen have a bigger fanbase. People also tend to talk about them like they're badasses - as opposed to Cazador, whom they speak of as if he's weak and non-threatening - even though Cazador has done more horrifying things for much longer than either of those other characters (though maybe except for He Who Was? Not sure what his deal is.).

And I really have to conclude that it's at least partly because Cazador is Asian-coded. Sure, his voice is slimy and thin, but that's true of any of the villain-ish characters I've noted. Put Cazador in Nere's or He Who Was' outfits and vice versa, or switch around their voices, and I guarantee the fandom would still shit on Cazador and call the white character sexy and intimidating.

Asians are perceived as weak and unmanly and timid and non-threatening. I see more discussions about Cazador being "just some guy" or a "disappointment" after Astarion had built him up to be a monstrous person, but that's exactly what Cazador is. What makes him "just some guy" or less threatening than many of the other lithe and thin villains in the game? What makes Cazador a joke? The only other villain I can think of that gets a similar "he's just some guy" treatment is Lorroakan, who is literally a fraud and a wannabe. Meanwhile, Cazador has built up a bank of 7000 victims over the course of 200 years, leaving them to absolute neglect and starvation. He has routinely tortured seven people whom he calls his "children", up to and including starving them, flaying them alive, and forcing them into sexual slavery. Which is genuinely not even half of the horrifying things he has done. Cazador is terrifyingly evil.

The thought that Cazador is presented as "just some guy" or a "little weakling" to drive home the fact that abusers and evil people can be just anyone is a valid and compelling one. But I also have to keep asking why looking at him makes people think he's weak. Again, all things being equal, I don't see what's so different about him from many of the other villainous characters that are spoken about with more gravity.

There is an inherent racism in seeing Asians and Asian-coded characters as less manly, less appealing, and less threatening. It's everywhere in media and public perception, and the BG3 fandom is no different.

#baldur's gate 3 #cazador #anti-asian racism #will i regret tagging? probably?

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samoililja · 2 years

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Here is a separate version of the infograph I made correcting the misinformation spread by a popular tumblr post captioning the below pictures as "Mongolian archer"

If you come across that post I would appreciate it if you'd reblog this along with it or the version below this so we can finally dissolve the misinformation perpetuated by the original post.

#image description in alt #finland #china #archery #mongolia #mongolian archer #misinformation #warriorwomen #zhang jingchu #world cultures #finnish #chinese #movie #suomitumblr #anti-asian racism

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bellepeppertronix · 1 year

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Oh also while I find the idea of cryptids FASCINATING,,,wtf at the actual cryptozoologists? Or at least the old lady Lena?

The realism makes me feel Violent and Hateful, because she goes from talking about random weird possibly non-existant animals and natural phenomena to casual low-grade racism with all the subtlety of well-poisoned wine, and it's so realistic that it feels like a legitimate real-life nausea disgust Ew, I've Been Talking To a Racist and I Did Not Know It feeling

"OH but you KNOW that white people and Asian (coded) people are actually different species!" Bitch this ain't the 1830s! How are you claiming to be some kind of scientific researcher and don't know basic facts about human phenotypes?????????

Oh but Interesting, how the narrative sets her up as this like...harmless quirky (probably upper middle class bc who tf is funding their research?) white woman, and her and her husband are just running around in search of their funky cryptid critters. So of course you have the charge of deciding if you like them enough to help them or if you find their "mild, polite" racism off-putting enough that you don't deal with them at all...

...microaggression right to his face...in a game tailored so you see it as bullshit Right Away if you are Paying Attention...

#bellepeppertronix plays disco elysium #racism #anti-asian racism #i am FASCINATED with this game...#disco elysium

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magnetothemagnificent · 1 year

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This is what happens when anti-Asian racism and discrimination is allowed to go unchecked.

#hate crime #mass shooting #monterey park massacre #anti-asian violence #gun violence #anti-asian racism #current events

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punkasshunter · 1 year

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Making my own post because the notes on the original are crawling with n/eofash and maybe this will wind up too, but I can't not say something. I saw this circulating this morning, and immediately recognized what this photo was and my gut actually dropped. The original is so horrifically racist and specifically anti-Japanese that I doubt I can repost it here without being taken down, but I think it's important for people to see and can be found here with others. It's a vitriolic piece of WW2-era xenophobia stripped of its context to complain about Twitter users. I like to think I've got a pretty strong stomach. I'm a confessed ex-redditor. But I actually wanted to fucking cry seeing this crop up here uncritically. Legitimately I can't imagine any variation of an "x keep out, this is a y neighborhood" meme being funny. Please, PLEASE reblog this and not the original. I'm not here to fault anyone who's already spread the OP, but especially when looking at historical images like this, have some consideration as to what the original message may have been.

#Racism #Anti-Asian racism #Anti-Japanese racism #Slur #J slur #Editing tags bc see now it's still even visible in the background

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aronarchy · 1 year

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#repost of someone else’s content #article #marriage #same-sex marriage #patriarchy #white supremacy #antiblackness #immigration #colonialism #anti-Indigenous racism #anti-Asian racism #anti capitalism #decolonization #feminism #anti assimilation #nuclear family abolition #queer liberation

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chemicalarospec · 2 months

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I've avoided posting about this before because I've seen a bunch of people criticized for how they draw (East) Asian eyes respond with "I'm Asian" (hot take... but you can internalize bias against a group you're in, including caricature-ish standards for them in art), but since we're getting into it with racism in how people draw Light Yagami, I think it's bonkers how accepted it is that artists draw him with squintier eyes the more evil they see him as.

#there's one drawing ppl rebloged a lot where his eyes are literal squiggles andn itmade me so uncomfortable but i felt like there would be #so many counter arguments if i said it felt racist #light yagami #death note #death note fandom #light yagami fanart #i said this #chem's death note arc #racism #anti-asian racism #there's this comic i saw by a black guy abt how to draw black ppl and one thing he mentions is that they should have the same style as every #one else like uf no on eelse has exaggerated features thats a caricature but if thats the whole style then it makes sense #would love to share the comic actuallly but on mobile rn #anyways yeah i do see ppl (I'm thikng of an asian example) break style to draw slanted asian eyes

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joshualunacreations · 1 year

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The US and its propaganda arm, Hollywood, have always been anti-Asian. Although opportunities are opening up for Asian actors, the underlying messaging—that divides and hurts Asians—hasn't changed.

Not too long ago, AsAms seemed united in outrage against racism and white-washed casting such as Scarlet Johannsen in Ghost in the Shell, Tilda Swinton in Dr. Strange, or Netflix’s Deathnote. Yet as more projects with AAPI leads and casts were produced, this so-called unity proved to be a lie.

The illusion of AsAm unity fell apart with To All the Boys I Loved Before—which was widely celebrated despite its blatant white-worship. The most recent blow comes from Hulu's The Company You Keep, a U.S. remake of a k-drama that replaced the male love interest with a white man.

Once it seemed like AAPI women were getting roles and being “humanized” (i.e. garnering attention and approval from white men on-screen and off) AAPI with media power were satisfied. It didn't matter that AAPI men were still erased and dehumanized—even in supposedly pro-AAPI projects.

Not only do AAPI with media power not care about the continuing harm against AAPI men, they exacerbate it. When AsAms critique anti-Asian narratives—especially ones erasing or targeting AsAm men like TATBILB—they're gaslit, harassed, censored and even permanently blacklisted.

This is because AsAm media is held hostage by the racist framework of the U.S. government's 1942-43 Mixed Marriage Policy. White men's hierarchy—based on perceived threat levels and receptiveness to white assimilation—still dictates Hollywood narratives.

Research confirms that the MMP persists today. A 2015 study shows how gendered racism leads to severe under-representation of Asian men (and Black women). Whereas monoracial Asian men face significant barriers in dating, a 2014 study shows mixed-white Asians get a "bonus effect."

This is why Hollywood execs know there will be less uproar if monoracial Asian men aren't represented—it's been the status quo for decades. In the few roles made for Asian men, they still fall into two categories: pathetic loser or toxic man/villain. In some cases, both.

The hatred and erasure of Asian men is so deeply embedded that it's led to the widespread erasure of AAPI men as victims of anti-Asian hate crimes in recorded stats and media narratives. AAPI journalists know this, yet continue to do nothing to correct it.

So what's next for AsAm representation? In 2022, Janet Yang became president of the Oscars. She's co-founder of Gold House—an AsAm Hollywood collective—and executive producer of Joy Luck Club, a seminal work bashing Asian men as irredeemable misogynists compared to "good" white men.

Many AsAms like Yang want more of Joy Luck Club and similar stories. Amy Tan, author of JLC, has been pushing for years for a sequel with the original cast. A TV series was optioned in 2017, and as of 2022 a movie sequel is to be written by white male screenwriter, Ron Bass.

Stories like Joy Luck Club aren't just bad media—they're dangerous. Arthur Martunovich randomly hammered three AsAm men to death because he saw a movie depicting Chinese men as abusers and he wanted to "protect Chinese women". There's a high chance that movie was JLC.

Hollywood has figured out it’s easy to make anti-Asian films and stifle criticism by hiring Asian tokens to give stamps of approval. An article from 1986 (40 years ago) about AsAm criticism of racism in Big Trouble in Little China shows there's a history of sowing division among AAPI and using government resources to do it. I understand the allure of the Hollywood dream because I used to believe in it myself. From an early age, all marginalized groups—POC, women, LGBTQ+—are taught to fantasize about how we'll finally be accepted and heal the hurt once we get on a big stage and give an award speech. Having experience in Hollywood as a comic creator, I know how people in power (esp. white men) behave. Their goal is to wear you down until you internalize their bigoted messaging, regurgitate it yourself, and then thank them for it. They hate the word "no." Awards don't matter if the content that gets you there ultimately serves bigoted and harmful purposes. In 2020, I made a test for AAPI media. None of the projects so far have passed. That's by design. We think we’re holding the statue, but really, it’s holding us.

Correction: I just noticed a typo in the comic. Inside the Hollywood sign's letter "Y" I meant to say "non-Asians" not "non-whites." Sorry, it was a lot of drawing and writing, and I got tired 🥴 (Please don’t repost or edit my art. Reblogs are always appreciated.)

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#asians in hollywood #aapi in hollywood #asian representation #aapi representation #oscars #academy awards #racism #anti-asian racism #gendered racism #hate crimes #anti-asian hate crimes #media analysis #asian americans #fil am artist #my art #artists on tumblr #joshua luna #josh luna

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thisismisogynoir · 7 months

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This was a while ago haha but I saw your post on interior Chinatown regarding misogynoir. I will say I am pretty sure the exclusion of black women in the mainstream cop show is on purpose, since on page 124 they address it directly— that Asian men aren’t the only ignored ones, and show a bunch of black women actors also ignored. Of course you may not have finished the book yet at the time, haha— but I thought it was something interesting to point out! And I completely agree with your points in your post.

Yeah I realize that too. Thanks for agreeing with me!

#black women #misogynoir #black female erasure #anti-asian racism

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walrusmagazine · 1 year

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What My Father’s Martial Arts Classes Taught Me about Fighting Racism

The goal of martial arts is self-defence. But what happens when the violence is as atmospheric as racism itself?

Sometimes I reflect on my father’s adage. Self-defence is not just about protecting yourself and others but also about protecting your opponent from committing a crime. When I was younger, I was often frustrated with how friendly my father was around police officers. He knew how to act suavely around a cop and shift his accent to sound as white as possible. Even when he was pulled over for speeding, he always recounted the moment as one in which the officer was only doing their job. Many years later, I now understand that acquiescence to be self-defence. I think, deep down, and despite his stating otherwise, my father knew that the police wouldn’t save us either.