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luulapants · 2 months

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I hope people understand that "Just block people with rancid opinions online" and "We have to learn to engage with people who disagree with us" are not contradictory statements.

The internet is a uniquely bad place to engage with dissenting opinions. The modern web is designed to silo, affirm bias, and foster extremism. People do not come to the internet with an open mind or willingness to change their beliefs. People do come to the internet to troll and stage arguments that will make them feel victimized and therefore more confident in their ideals. And you, no matter what credentials you claim, will never have more authority than "stranger on the internet."

That doesn't mean people's minds can't be changed in other venues. This is why community action is so important and why activism has to occur in a physical space. When you coalition build with people around a single cause, even if you disagree on everything else, you gain credibility and trust. You learn to respect each other enough that when it does come time to discuss those issues you disagree on, the conversation is safe and people are able to listen and ask and dissent without fear.

#action is activism #coalition

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intersectionalpraxis · 1 month

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The Canadian government sends arms to the US -that's where the paper trail is able to conveniently end. The US then can export these weapons to the IOF. There are zero regulations and transparency about this. So we don't know -and I imagine the estimates each year probably exceed the amount frustratingly so. I'm glad to see that steps are being made to suing the federal government for their complicity. To all folks living in Canada, keep an eye on the House of Commons website. Some MPs are still introducing bills for more transparency about weapons sales and exports. I will track this case and update here when information is available.

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noshowjericho · 7 months

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disctober day 4 - "Loss"

"Kras Mazov shoots himself in the head, and Abadanaiz, together with Dobreva, takes poison on the Ozonne Islands. Beneath the palms the wind blew the flesh from their bones into sand. Who could’ve known? All the good people in the world came together. Teachers, writers, migrant workers squatting in the trenches… young soldiers abandoned their battalions. What beautiful songs they sing! It seems to them that brave children are the favourites of history, as they wave white flags with a crown of silver horns. And then, they lose." - Sacred and Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz

WOO this theme was really hard to do actually, at first i thought of doing something with gaston and rené but it just wasn't flowing, thought a little more and ended up with this! It's a bit abstract but its suppose to be the aftermath of Masov commiting suicide during the bombings by the moralintern, i tried really hard to draw him as a part of the scene but everything ended up a bit flimsy and i think this captures the vibe i was trying to pass better! Hope you guys enjoy!!

#dont really know if i can tag him but im doing it #kraz masov #coalition #moralintern #disco elysium #de #suicide #very proud of how minimalist the waves are but how detailed they look #jerridraws

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alwaysbewoke · 10 days

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#israel #air defense #coalition #international support #sympathy #gaza war #palestinians #humanitarian catastrophe #military #interception #minor damage #wounded #u.s. central command #american forces #region #iran #jordan #pro-palestinian #self-defense

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tomorrowusa · 5 months

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There's been a great amount of consternation over the results of the November 22nd elections in the Netherlands. Much of the hysteria comes from people who know nothing about Dutch politics or how the constitutional system works there.

We see news stories in Anglophone media saying that Geert Wilders and his far right PVV party "won" the election.

It's true that the PVV won more seats than any other single party there. However what's often left out is that the PVV won just 37 seats in the lower house of the Dutch parliament (called the Tweede Kamer) out of a total of 150 seats. A governing majority requires 76 seats and the PVV is 39 seats short of that. The PVV simply cannot govern by itself.

Politics in the Netherlands is quite fragmented. And because of an overly strict system of proportional representation for the Tweede Kamer, a lot of little shit parties representing narrow interests manage to win seats. 15 parties won seats in the recent election.

The outgoing VVD (24 seats) and the GLPVDA (25 seats) have already said they would not join a coalition with Wilders's PVV. The new NSC (20 seats) has been very iffy; its leader said he would not support the PVV's anti-Islamic policies which would violate the Dutch constitution. Don't expect DENK, (3 seats), an immigrant rights party, to join a PVV coalition. VOLT (2 seats) is a pro-EU party which would not likely join in a coalition led by Wilders who is anti-EU. The SP (5 seats) is a socialist party diametrically opposed to the PVV. D66 (9 seats) is a socially progressive and its membership would probably not be comfortable in a Wilders-led coalition.

So if you add up the seats for parties which may have reservations about the PVV, it's a clear majority.

HOWEVER, Wilders may try to entice one some of those parties with pledges of moderation; though that may not sit well with hardliners in his own party.

Another possibility would be for the GLPVDA, VVD, NSC, and D66 to try to form a government. They do have 78 seats, two more than needed for a majority. Though in Dutch politics it wouldn't look good for the party with the largest number of seats to be left out of government.

A more likely possibility would be for the VVD or NSC to prop up a Wilders government without joining it. This way they would not be tainted by direct association with him and could pull the rug out from under him if he becomes too extreme.

One last option is simply to string out coalition negotiations while a caretaker runs the country. It usually takes about three months to form a government under normal circumstances in the Netherlands. But in 2017 it took a record 225 days to do so. In neighboring Belgium it took 589 days to form a government back in 2010-2011.

So people freaking out over Geert Wilders should dial down their stress levels at least a bit. Even if he becomes prime minister he'll be limited in what he can do. Though this election should serve as a warning to other democratic countries not to take things for granted.

#netherlands #nederland #election #verkiezing tweede kamer #geert wilders #far right #pvv #coalition #coalitie #vvd #glpvda #nsc #d66 #denk #volt #oliver schopf

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markgatissappreciationsociety · 1 year

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Some particularly Mycroftian moments from Mark Gatiss playing Peter Mandelson, the "Prince of Darkness", in Coalition. (Seemed a timely watch, given the upcoming US Election Day and the recent UK shenanigans.)

Look at this entrance! Ridiculously dramatic.

#Mark Gatiss #Coalition #Peter Mandelson #The Prince of Darkness

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indiesellersguild · 30 days

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Today we're welcoming Tumble Weird Magazine to our coalition to fight for a better internet! Learn more about the coalition through the link below.

#coalition #indie sellers guild #tumble weird magazine #unions #guilds #cooperatives #cooperation

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botanical-feverdream · 1 year

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I got a message from the one up above

Serpentine seductress love to bite back

Probe me paralyze me nymphomaniac

Brand me burn abduct me hyper heart attack

Love to love me leave me make me come back

Plagued be the body, holy and unscathed

Forgive me father, for I have misbehaved

Crafted like a weapon, unable to disengage

Built to dismember, fill me with your rage

diversity win fr though! the agent who is coming to your house to kill you is trans and she is very upset you called her a bitch! Also ofcrs the songs for this drawing:

THIS WAS FR REAL FUN TO DRAW I LOVE HER AND SHOULD DRAW HER IN TACTICAL GEAR MORE OFTEN BUT ALSO VERY IMPORTANT

DO NOT JOIN THE MILITARY ITSA BAD I always feel slightly bad if I dont mention it

#my art #second inquisition #SI #coalition #seconf inquisition vtm #i focking love orange and green and purple #i need to use those colors more #also htr is orange so sorta on theme when put next to vtm purple #Spotify

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memenewsdotcom · 2 years

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Macron loses majority in French Parliament

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#coalition #election #Emmanuel Macron #europe #france #government #leftist #marine le pen #meme #memes #national rally #New Ecological and Social People&039;s Union #news #parliament #politics #president #russia

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haggishlyhagging · 1 year

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“Feminism cannot indulge the fantasy that interests always converge; that our plans will have no unexpected, undesirable consequences that politics is a place of comfort.

The feminist scholar and activist Bernice Johnson Reagon, speaking in the last century about this one, warned that a truly radical politics—that is, a coalitional politics—cannot be a home to its members:

Coalition work is not work done in your home. Coalition work has to be done in the streets . . . And you shouldn't look for comfort. Some people will come to a coalition and they rate the success of the coalition on whether or not they feel good when they get there. They're not looking for a coalition; they're looking for a home! They're looking for a bottle with some milk in it and a nipple, which does not happen in a coalition.

For Reagon, it is the belief that politics should be a perfect home—a place of complete belonging, "a womb," as she puts it—which leads to the exclusionary contradictions of much feminism. Feminism envisaged as a "home" insists on commonality before the fact, pushing aside all those who would trouble its domestic idyll. A truly inclusionary politics is an uncomfortable, unsafe politics.”

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

#Amia Srinivasan #feminism #coalition #feminist politics

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sublimeobservationarcade · 9 months

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Coalition Responsible For Consulting Crisis

10 years of Liberal/National federal governments stripped the public service of 15, 000 jobs and opened the door for consultants PwC, KPMG, EY, and Deloitte to feast on government contracts to the tune of billions of dollars. Coalition responsible for consulting crisis, as insider mates shuffle jobs between government and the big 4 consultancy/auditing firms to ensure the flow of business and big bucks. Four Corners has revealed the incestuous relationships in the Department of Defence and KPMG via whistleblowers telling their story about what has been going on. Pigs with snouts in the trough comes to mind as an analogy about what has been occurring. “It has been the Coalition's official benchmark for "responsible management" since 2015; a target that prime ministers Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison also pursued. More than 15,000 government jobs were abolished as a result.” - (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-13/has-federal-budget-2021-ended-coalition-war-on-public-servants/100133980) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pduOqZPnqVc

Dishonest & Dodgy Coalition Governments Dealing Billions To Consultants

The lack of transparency is a major issue and questions have to be asked whether this was a deliberate strategy by the Coalition in government. Outsourcing, what has always been the work of government through the public service, means that these consulting firms are not scrutinised to the level government departments usually are. The Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison governments moved much of their work of government to these private consulting firms. Public funds normally allocated to the trusted public service were diverted to these private companies. The PwC tax scandal has shown clearly that these firms are not to be trusted with sensitive and confidential government information.

“Former KPMG partner urges royal commission into consulting industry following damning report into PwC scandal” - (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/06/former-kpmg-partner-urges-royal-commission-into-consulting-industry-following-damning-report-into-pwc-scandal) “PwC Australia has sacked eight partners, including its former CEO Tom Seymour, over their direct involvement in or knowledge of the tax leak scandal which has engulfed the consulting firm.” - (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-03/asx-markets-business-live-news-july-3/102553582)

Neoliberal Coalition Oversees Erosion Of Ethics & Professional Standards

Overcharging and extending contracts is rife in the consulting sector and via these government contracts they have gone to town. Tens of billions of dollars have been siphoned off into the hands of these firms and their insider mates of the Coalition. Scott Morrison has a lot of questions to answer re-Robodebt and PwC was involved in this illegal debacle as well. It is time that these people were brought to justice and prosecuted. The erosion of ethics and professional standards has been overseen by the Coalition in power. Screwing the taxpayer out of money and feathering the nest of private individuals has been happening on a very large scale. “Collins had breached a series of confidentiality agreements made with federal Treasury and the Board of Taxation that gave him access to various consultative forums as a senior partner in the local branch of a global accounting firm. Information obtained during those processes was used to brief local and international tax partners or staff on what the government was doing in specific areas of taxation. It was publicly known that Collins had shared knowledge that he should not have shared, as was the fact that his former firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers (now PwC), was given a disciplinary penalty that required it to tighten up training and procedures.” (https://www.themandarin.com.au/219292-damning-emails-reveal-former-pwc-peter-collins-multiple-breaches/

Liberal Vision Of Australia All About Wealth At Any Cost For The Few These people at the heart of these big 4 consultancy firms have earned millions of dollars. They live in big houses in exclusive suburbs worth millions of dollars, and they drive very smart cars. Insider trading is illegal and yet these accountants have trod an inside track thanks to their Coalition mates in power. A decade of Coalition governments has overseen the massive expansion of private consultants taking over the public service. Liberals screwing the Australian people for their own advantage. Profits and avoiding public scrutiny by Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison are at the heart of this betrayal of trust. “The previous Coalition government spent $20.8bn outsourcing more than a third of public service operations, an audit has found. The federal government released the findings of the Australian public service audit of employment on Saturday, which examined the hiring practices and associated costs of 112 public service agencies, excluding the CSIRO, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and parliamentary departments. It found the equivalent of nearly 54,000 full-time staff were employed as consultants or service providers for the federal government during the 2021-2022 financial year – the equivalent of 37% of the 144,300-employee public service.” - (Stephanie Convery, The Guardian, 6 May 2023) Conservative voters in Australia are hoodwinked into voting for the Coalition on the basis of socially conservative policies. Meanwhile, we are all shafted via insider trading for their mates and plum government contracts for wealthy friends in the consultancy business. Hundreds of millions of dollars of public funds being siphoned off into the hands of these dubious individuals. Donald Trump and the Republicans have written the modern rule book for this grifting behaviour in government in recent times. Trump is a hero for these conservatives combining billion dollar grift with authoritarian power to keep any dissenting voices in check. Look at the list of questionable activities undertaken during the Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison governments. - Climate change and global warming – the Coalition has put back Australia at least a couple of decades via their inaction and manipulation of government policies in this space. - Consultancy Crisis/Gutting the Public Service – tens of billions of dollars going into private hands via overcharging, wasteful practices, and neutering public scrutiny and the voice of the public service. - Robodebt – the Robodebt scheme was cooked up by Scott Morrison and was illegal, but put into practice anyway. 500, 000 Australians were wrongly accused of owing large amounts of money to the government. People killed themselves in despair over this! A settled class action has cost taxpayers $1.6 billion so far. A Royal Commission was scathing in its condemnation and recommendations for further prosecution against those administering the scheme. Scott Morrison, of course, denies any wrong doing and responsibility for something he instigated. - Sports Rorts – pork barrelling taken to another level, as Coalition ministers direct spending to swing voter seats in a bid to shore up support for their electoral cause. Australians in Labor seats miss out on investment into their infrastructure because of where they reside and the political bellwether situation. - Uluru Statement from the Heart – 10 years of Coalition government denied this call from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians for a place at the big table. Whenever Liberal/National governments come to power they invariably dismantle and defund Indigenous bodies and programs, which were established by Labor governments to close the gap. Whether it is politics over concern for First Nations’ people or just out and out racism the end result is the same. Is it any wonder that First Nations’ Australians want a Voice to Parliament written into the Constitution. Peter Dutton is leading the No vote against the Voice in the referendum. The Nationals also oppose it. Mean spirited, racist, and, generally, lacking compassion are all ways to describe this behaviour. - Housing Crisis - Where has all the social housing in Australia gone? Neoliberal economic policies have given everything over to the private sector and the profit motive. Needy and vulnerable? Tough luck, you're stuffed in Oz these days. - Corporate Profits Driving Inflation - A concentration of corporate power via takeovers and mergers means that price setting is rife in Australia. Bugger all competition (where and what has the ACCC been up to?) in the banking sector, supermarkets, audit firms, airlines, real estate, mining, energy sector, and everywhere you seek to do business is an oligopoly. Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters: Navigating Credit, Debt & Financial Freedom ©WordsForWeb

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#Australia #Coalition #Conultants #FourCorners #KPMG #LiberalParty #moralfailure #Nationals #politics #PwC #Robodebt #ScottMorrison #Trump

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bopinion · 10 months

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2023 / 28

Aperçu of the Week:

"When the lion China awakes, the world will tremble."

(Napoleon Bonaparte)

Bad News of the Week:

For months, the actions of the "Last Generation" have polarized in Germany. Who use civil disobedience as a means, call for more (political) activity against climate change and are increasingly criminalized. In doing so, they are deliberately crossing borders; after all, they are interfering with public order in a disruptive way. For example, by sticking themselves to busy intersections in order to put a stop to the archenemy, the combustion engine. As a nation of drivers, the Germans don't like that at all.

It's just as typically German to fly on vacation - we're world champions at that. And flying, with its catastrophic environmental record, combined with continued state subsidies, is a prime example of climate policy failure. So it's not really surprising that the organization paralyzed two airports on the first day of summer vacation in their states. And the displeasure was not just in Hamburg and Düsseldorf. Politicians were also quick to offer sharp criticism. Robert Habeck of the Green Party, for example, said, "The activists who are now blocking people's vacation travel are doing massive damage to the cause of climate protection." Anyone who really wants to stand up for climate protection must also have social acceptance in mind.

With this the Green politician, who is not only the Minister of Economics but also the Minister of Climate Protection, inadvertently sums it up. Because this is also evident in view of the current booking figures for air tourism: broad society simply does not want to accept that more needs to be done. And fast. But no, everyone just sticks to their comfortable habits: flying on vacation, driving a fat car, not paying for climate-friendly heating, doing online shopping in China and a schnitzel on the plate every day.

That's why journalist Janko Tietz of Der Spiegel poses a justified rhetorical question: "Perhaps Habeck also has a tip up his sleeve about how exactly he envisions protest that is socially accepted, hurts no one - and still has an effect." Because if it really is the case that both the Green Party and the climate protection minister have been softened by the results of the polls, the only thing left to do in view of the undeniable necessity is to protest in a way that hurts. Until the last one finally understands what is necessary.

Good News of the Week:

In the coalition agreement, the current government already stipulated that it wanted to define a new China strategy. That was at the end of 2021, before the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. In which China still refuses to show its colors and at the same time has significantly increased its aggressiveness toward Taiwan. And which, in its economic implications, has brought the issue of "dependence" into the mainstream consciousness.

This week, the announced paper was put on the table. 64 pages that give the impression that something has actually been learned from past experience. Sure, there is no denying that China is Germany's most important trading partner. As a sales market and as a production location. And it is admitted that in many international issues, such as the fight against climate change, it will not be possible without the Middle Kingdom. That is simply the reality.

But otherwise, there is a refreshing amount of plain speaking. In a thoroughly critical manner. A China that is taking a much more offensive stance in foreign policy is trying "in various ways to reshape the rules-based international order. This has implications for European and global security." it says already in the introduction. Likewise, the human rights violations against the Uyghurs, in Tibet and Hong Kong are clearly named.

In the economic context, too, one gets the impression that the same mistake as with the dependence on Russian gas should not happen again. There should be no decoupling from China, but the dependence on key technologies and important raw materials should be reduced. The opening of chip and battery factories at home fits in with this, even if it is more expensive. So there also seems to be a consensus within the economy itself. That's a good thing.

Personal happy moment of the week:

We had some storms last week. For example, heavy branches from the tree next door fell into the chicken enclosure of the neighboring farm. Probably with victims. I also had problems getting home from Baden-Württemberg on Thursday because of closed railroad lines - falling trees had cut power lines. Nevertheless, standing between far too many people on the train, I was dominated by confidence. I made it. Uncomfortably and with a lot of time. But still. And I will stick to taking the (ecologically better) train instead of the car. Even in difficult situations, it works, after all.

I couldn't care less...

...about the Swedish definition of freedom of expression. Following the public burning of a copy of the Koran two weeks ago, Stockholm police have authorized a demonstration to burn the holy scriptures of Jews and Christians. The choice of location alone - in front of the Israeli embassy - shows that this is a deliberate provocation that is politically motivated. Covering that with reference to the legitimate expression of personal opinion puts me in a dilemma of weighing different value-based rights against each other. Difficult.

As I write this...

...it is 33 degrees Celsius. Even I wear shorts, which my daughter finds laughable. And I drink Aperol Sprizz, which is often considered a typical women's drink. And listen to summer hits playlists that are close to the radio program, which is actually unpopular with me. Sometimes you just have to compromise.

Post Scriptum

Germany depends on immigration to maintain its prosperity. This is not just about the increasingly sought-after skilled workers in key technologies, but about additional hands and heads at all levels - from nurses to AI specialists. The bottom line is that around 500,000 are needed every year. That's according to the so-called "economic wise" who advise the federal government as an independent, non-partisan body of experts. Yet Germany is facing international competition in which it is finding it increasingly difficult to survive.

Complicated language, cumbersome bureaucracy and inadequate childcare are the classic aspects that deter potential immigrants. Added to this is the rise of right-wing populists, who are officially xenophobic. Economist Ulrike Malmendier does research at the University of California at Berkeley and sees parallels to Trumpism: "I've seen how quickly it can happen that you divide a society with simple slogans and prejudices."

Welcome culture is a beautiful word. It exists in the German dictionary, but not in reality. People not only have to come, they also have to stay - currently, one million people leave the country every year. In all society levels. Because if no one sits down next to you in the subway, it doesn't matter whether you're a refugee from Afghanistan or a neurosurgeon from Pakistan: the color of your skin is enough to make you feel exposed to resentment that has nothing to do with you personally - but shows a general latent xenophobia. To the detriment of all.

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dreaming-about-somewhere-else · 1 year

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Key Moments in Asian American History: An Incomplete Survey

Key Moments of Co-Racialization in Asian American History:

An Incomplete Survey

Co-racialization: The relative racialization of different Asian American groups based on their proximity to whiteness and distance from blackness. In this way, definitions of whiteness, blackness, and Asian Americanness are dependent on the current political moment in which they are being shaped.

1. Black Orientalism

Time Period: Reconstruction era United States,1860- 1890s

Context: Chinese Exclusion act of 1882

With white lawmakers deciding whether or not to include Black Americans in American Citizenship, there arguments in congress to stop further Chinese immigration amid a rising, widespread, anti-Chinese movement. A white minister argues to the Senate in 1878 that slavery has primed Black Americans for citizenship while the newly immigrated Chinese have not been similarly “compelled to give up idolatry” or adopt Christianity. In order to bolster their bid for inclusion, the Black Press buys into Anti-Chinese rhetoric, proving their “deeply American character.” Black Orientalism was a path for Black people to negotiate citizenship in American Modernity through racial uplift, placing themselves above Chinese immigrants by reproducing and pushing anti-Chinese sentiments in their publications. These newspapers would describe the ‘sexually-deviant, filthy, diseased Chinese ghettos’ in an attempt to highlight the modest, Christian, and virtuous nature of Black Americans. In these efforts, Black Americans appealed to white citizenship for inclusion on the basis of their moral and religious superiority to Chinese Immigrants. However, the passing of the Chinese exclusion act led to the Supreme Court decision that cemented that racial segregation was an entitlement of white citizenship, thus undermining their efforts for inclusion.

Source: The Press for Inclusion in 19th Century Black Citizenship and the Anti- Chinese Movement by Helen Heran Jun

2. Chinese Mississippians

Time Period: 1920s-1940s

Context: Jim Crow South

Chinese Mississippians in the American Delta Made Bids for Whiteness by disassociating from the black communities they were a part of. Chinese Mississippians “earned” social mobility and “honorary whiteness” by endorsing black-white racial divide and white supremacy, as well as accruing capital, often by profiting off business from the black community that they disassociated from. They did this by breaking all former platonic and romantic ties with the black communities they lived in and seeking entrance into white schools for their children on the grounds that they too should be able to discriminate against black people. This begins in 1924, when Gong Lum argues in court for his daughter to attend a white school since she was “not a member of the colored race nor is she of mixed blood, but that she is pure Chinese”, and there was no Chinese school for her to attend. This bid for association to whiteness was based on the negative association of blackness, which defined the” colored” racial category in America at the time. Instead, the initial victory was appealed to the Mississippi Supreme court, which ruled that since Chinese are not white, they are “colored“. Gong Lum and other Chinese American parents then elected to send their children to private Catholic schools, still not willing to be associated with the black community, and still vying for approval from the white ruling class and thus higher social status. This paid off, after the alliance between US and China in World War II, the elite white schools opened the door for the Delta Chinese. However, this still legally undermined their bid for whiteness, as they were legally classified as non-white for the first time.

Source: Morphing Race Into Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of Whiteness, Susan Koshy

3. Bids for White Legal Classification

Time Period: 1910-1970

Context: America was drawing a global map of who was “colored” and who was white. In ambiguity, people of different ethnicities bid for inclusion in the legal classification of white in order to attain citizenship, on which race is a basis for exclusion.

A few key court cases illustrate the many bids for inclusion and relative racialization of different ethnicities. The bid for whiteness from American colonial territories was fraught. A native Hawaiian who petitioned for citizenship in 1889 and was denied on the basis that he was of the “Mongolian” race, and that he was not “sufficiently intelligent” in the principles of the US. This legal racial classification of “Mongolian” was applied to Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, and Hawaiians, who were not hitherto grouped into the same racial category. The bids for western and south Asian claimants, who were racialized as Caucasian, because of the whiteness line being drawn “west of the subcontinent”, were treated with a different legal practice and interpretation. Early Syrian immigrants in the 60s petitioned for citizenship on the basis of their “whiteness” since their Christian communities reflected the appearance and values of American communities in the 1950s, with an emphasis on their strong Christianity, modest women, and distance from “barbaric” Muslim Syrians.

Source: Morphing Race Into Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of Whiteness, Susan Koshy

Concepts that influence Asian American Racialization in North America:

Abstract Labor: The valuation of immigrant labor, and specifically Asian immigrant labor as disposable, thus dehumanizing and racializing the laborers and allowing the state to use Asian labor for country building. Meanwhile the laborers can make no demands of the state for better living conditions or working.

Abstract Citizen: A homogenous national identity that provides the state with uncomplicated devotion and affection. In the United States we may define this as the White Cis Het Man, the nation’s ideal citizen. Asian Americans may try to align themselves, but they will never truly be accepted into the national identity because of their ”perpetual foreigner” status.

Source: from Immigration, Citizenship, Racialization, Lisa Lowe

To be continued in ….

Key Moments of Coalition in Asian American History

1. Third World Unity

Time Period: 1960s

Context: Huey P. Newton, leader of the Black Panther Party theorized Intercommunalism and Internationalism

“The Panthers Linked their own oppression with that of other racialized and oppressed groups in the US and linked oppression at home with imperialism throughout the tricontinental.”

Source: “Long Live Third World Unity! Long Live Internationalism” by Besenia Rodriguez

2. Black Power Yellow Power

Time Period: 1960s

Context: Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement

“White America justifies the blacks’ position by showing that other non-whites – yellow people—have been able to “adapt” to the system… the yellow power movement is fighting a well-developed racism in Asin Americans who project their own frustrated attempt to gain white acceptance onto the black people. ”

Source: The emergence of the yellow power in America, by Amy Uyematsu

3. Student Protests in California

Time Period: 1960s

Context: Civil Rights era, Third World Movements

“African American, Asian American, Chicano, Latino, and Native American students called for ethnic studies and open admissions under the slogan of self-determination.”

Source: “On Strike!” San Francisco State College Strike 1968-1969 by Karen Umemoto

Suggested Reading on the Topic of Coalition:

Uses of Anger, Audre Lorde

Transformation of Silence into Action, Audre Lorde

Coalition Politics, Bernice Johnson Reagan

This Bridge Called My Back by Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga

Cultural Identity and Diaspora, Stuart Hall

#asian american #coalition

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alwaysbewoke · 10 days

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