#cw anti-asian racism

[mogai-sunflowers]

oh my fucking god. i'm going to talk about this a little bit because i'm fucking livid. i am not a person of color so I don't want to speak over anyone, and i'm not an expert on this topic, but... this is way too fucking far, even for radqueers.

[Image ID: A screenshot of a coining post by tumblr user @/centipedekiyoko. It reads:

“Transgeisha: A transid term where you wish to be a geisha.”

Then, there is a flag. It has 13 horizontal stripes, of varying sizes but in a symmetrical pattern. From top to bottom, the colors are black, medium purple, purple, blue, red, white, golden, white, red, blue, purple, medium purple, and black. End ID.]

this is truly appalling. first, let’s just start with the fact that the geisha are not an aesthetic. they are a deeply important part of Japanese culture, and they have been for nearly 8 centuries, and that's AFTER they were inspired by aspects of Chinese culture. i bet this person would not be able to tell you what geisha even means in Mandarin (aka the language geisha is in, it literally translates to art person, usually interpreted as artisan), or that geishas were originally men, or that they are HIGHLY trained in MANY aspects of Japanese culture. the geisha that this person is imagining- the makeup and hair and attire? that’s just the surface of what the geisha are.

girls usually start their training to become a geisha around the age of 14-15. they live in separate housing and undergo rigorous training for YEARS. they become experts and masters in Japanese culture and arts. and they don't do it so that white strangers can fetishize them and shit. there is absolutely importance to the typical geisha appearance and style- but it's impossible to fully appreciate the depth of even that, if you're not from that culture, so you can't just fucking say "oh im transgeisha now" because you like the aesthetic. if you don't have the experience of that culture, you can't just "become" one of the most honored traditions from said culture. when geishas don their traditional attire and makeup, it's their culture. when we do it, it's called yellowface.

so let’s talk about the term “yellowface”. it refers to when white people use orientalist stereotypes and caricatures to dress up as, impersonate, and/or act as Asian people/characters. and for over a century, white people have been doing exactly that with the geisha- trying to dress as geishas, without knowing any of the cultural significance of them, or bothering to find out how to even accurately "portray" the geisha. American film has LONG endorsed this kind of stereotyping, and it has led to an EXTREMELY orientalist, racist, anti-Asian Hollywood and media culture in America. Asian creators in that industry have long spoken about this term and the issues it describes.

but yellowface is exactly the sentiment this "identity" reeks of. a persona of Japanese culture, not anything more. Japanese people are not our aesthetic. if you can't even recognize the basic humanity of the people whose culture you're taking, then why the fuck are you even making terms like this in the first place?

again, i'm not trying to be preachy about this. i would greatly welcome perspectives from actual Japanese people about this, I just saw this earlier and it hasn't left my mind since because it's so horrible. please block and report this person.

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #cw racism #tw racism #cw cultural appropriation #cw anti-asian racism #anti radqueer #anti transid #anti transx #anti transrace #anti trace #tw radqueer #tw transx #tw transrace #tw trace

[punkeropercyjackson]

Can y'all 'Drawing your faves supporting Palestine is disrespectful!' niggas realize that

A lot of people who do this are Palestinean themselves or at least make their art to support Palestinean loved ones they have

Speaking as someone who looks for pro-Palestine resources at least once a day,i've literally never seen a Palestinean person or even arab/muslim person in general say they don't like it and in fact a good chunk of them expressed verbal support over how much they appreciate it

While i could not find the original creator of it,the blog dedicated to it is a homecountry raised Palestinean who said they made it because they grew up dreaming of their favorite childhood characters stopping what's going on and has been for too long

It's neccesary i think that i include this example since it's prompted this post:People have drawn comparisons between Aang and the people of Palestine because the Air Nomads may not have been real but the tibetans they were made to represent ARE and that includes the ethnic cleansing as well as the imperialistic Japan reality that is the Fire Nation(though in their case it is China).I'll admit i didn't know about the former actually happening until now but it makes perfect sense the same 'people' who couldn't even handle a FICTIONAL genocide survivor based off irl ones are going as far to speak over the REAL LIFE genocide survivors too because this is the shit me and all the other victims of these kinds of things have been saying for ages,that the way you treat minority characters reflects how you treat irl ones but y'all NEVER listened to us and look at you now

Stop telling Palestinean people how they should feel about people trying to help them-THEIR voices are the only ones that matter in this.They didn't ask you to speak for them,you condesending cunts and even if some of them do,that dosen't mean you can use them as a 'gotcha!' to tell on yourself for not actually caring about them as a whole and just the ones who agree with you

This is not about your opinions.This is about Palestineans.Get over yourself

#aang #palestine #anti arab racism #anti asian racism #genocide cw #ethnic cleansing #ceasefire now #save gaza #summerposting

[jasontoddssuper]

I've never met any fandom as obsessed with making racist white characters into 'the REAL victims' and creating personalities out of their nothingness as the Harry Potter/Marauder's Era one.They convinced themselves that the faction who are a metaphor for n*zis(Slytherins)are 'discriminated against for being ambitious' when the reason everyone hates them is that they're bigots and bullies towards minorities and when there's exactly one canon poc amongst them.And now,because they're selfish enough to betray their trans siblings and jewish people and disabled people and like every other opressesd group in existence for their own nostalgia,they've turned the ones who never even appeared onpage into their 'unproblematic blorbos' because they're THAT desperate for white faves.It's just plain weird really

#anti harry potter #trans #trans rights #transgender #xenogender #neopronouns #actuallyautistic #poc #antisemitism #transmisogyny #transmascphobia #exorsexism #ableism #antiblackness cw #anti asian racism #lesbophobia #biphobia #homophobia #panphobia #transmasc #transmasculine #trans men #transfem #trans woman #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #genderfluid #bigender #letters from summer

[peridot-tears]

I was chatting with my 弟弟 from China who's been in NYC for less than a year, and manz was talking about how he's afraid of taking the subway. I was damn shook, because that means he's been walking to our gym and hasn't seen much of the city.

He explained that people would push him, and just walking on the street people would try to shove or fuck with him and make racist remarks.

I was just like, "说出难听话，这些事我早习惯了。”

His response was, “我知道我该习惯上，但是我不想。”

#cw racism #cw anti asian hate #i always stick up for myself and those around me so i don't mean this in a passive way #but every time you step out the door and go exploring the city you do run the risk of being racially harassed or attacked #and the tension is something i have to live with especially now #every time you choose a fight you accept the risk that comes with it #i think every time someone from asia comes west they can't stand even a little bit of microaggression #and then they can't believe that this is just how i live #it's just a reality check every time that this is not okay #tears falling like peridots

[aggregatesarereallygreat]

What’s the ☕️ on Bobby?

SO. all of this is alleged(except the makeup)first of all. I doubt he spends his time scrawling through tumblr blogs but better safe than sorry.

He’s just generally been described as a real asshole off stage. Rude, demanding, full of himself. And he apparently shit in a director(not the stex director iirc)’s hat as a revenge.

Also the makeup he used when he played the Japanese National was just….like straight up yellow face. Like he even included buck teeth and changed his eye shape.

#ask.txt #anti Asian racism cw #like you can find his hash pictures on the wiki #and while other early makeup looks for hashimoto weren’t great #they weren’t straight up yellow face with buck teeth #also he just sounds like shit but that’s a personal peeve

[fictionkinfessions]

As a Central Asian, my exhaustion with white kinnies using Asian names for funsies is astronomically high, but then today I saw nyan/nyanself pronouns and I have to say, using foreign words and misusing them in order to forge new meanings totally devoid of all cultural context is a newer, lower level of linguistic imperialism. I'm so glad that white people mostly steal from East Asians so I don't have to see my culture and language appropriated for "kin purposes". - a very tired Pikachu

#fictionkinfessions #fictionkin #pikachukin #pokemonkin #racism cw #kwrd #anti asian racism #imperialism #me handshaking you #white ppl dont know we exist [yet comma cringe] #mod party cat!

[farchanter]

Charles Yu: Interior Chinatown

They're going to shoot him. You have to say something. But how can you? You don't have any lines.

I've been wanting to read Interior Chinatown, 2020 National Book Award winner, pretty much since the award was announced.

Like most metafiction, it might take me a minute here to explain the layers of the story. I also can't discount the notion that my understanding of events might differ from yours as a reader— that's a feature, not a bug.

Interior Chinatown is a script— a teleplay. At one level it's an episode of Black and White, an in-fiction police procedural, set in "Chinatown". The utility of this location to Black and White isn't that it's Chinese, of course: it's that it's sufficiently Asian, which is to say sufficiently exotic to a American television audience, that they can set their story there.

The Chinatown set is populated by actors of East Asian descent. They live where they work, aging through roles throughout their lives. Taking advantage of white people's inability to tell Asian people apart, sometimes they even play multiple roles on the same show or movie. The effects of this situation are complicated: at times, the residents of Chinatown are unable to interact with each other without assuming their fictional personas, even when the cameras aren't rolling.

Chinatown is sometimes a pure metaphor, at times just a film set, at times a living, breathing location. Sometimes the events of Black and White (and any other stories) are purely fictional, at other points totally literal. The relationships of the stage characters intermesh with the real people behind them. Time passes normally, except when it distorts to meet the needs of the movies and TV shows.

These protean constructs are bent and shaped in different ways to meet the different needs of the story at different points in time. The disorientation is a desired side effect of the system.

As you may have already realized, these layers of story are meant to mirror the real-life experiences of Asian Americans, and particularly Asian American actors. These characters are doing what they need to survive in a white supremacist structure, even as those choices are sometimes humiliating and service the stereotypes of that supremacy. Yu repeatedly drives home that Asians have always been "others" in American culture.

Yu is clearly very talented and this big concept story sounds interesting but, but if I'm being completely honest, Interior Chinatown didn't really do it for me. This may sound strange, but I wish there were more... stuffing to this story. We move at a really quick pace and I, at least, felt like I hadn't really gotten to know Willis by the end. There are some really powerful moments, but they pass much too fast.

What so many people liked about this book is apparent. Yu has a great gift, particularly when writing for humor, and he's writing about a vital message which he delivers. I just wish we had gotten to spend more time with the characters.

#cw: racism #cw: anti-asian racism #completion list #books #completed #todo #review #charles yu #interior chinatown #metafiction

[vague-humanoid]

Tammel Esco, 42, pleaded guilty in September to assault in the first degree as a hate crime based on an agreement with prosecutors. The video shows him punching her more than 100 times and stomping on her body in the March 11 attack. He was sentenced to 17.5 years in state prison and will be subject to five years of post-release supervision.

The woman suffered brain bleeding, and multiple facial fractures, and other injuries, prosecutors said.

“Because of the viciousness and hate of Tammel Esco, I lost the place I called home for over 24 years, the place where I raised my daughters, and my longtime neighbors … As the attack happened, all I could think was, ‘Please Lord let me live, please Lord my daughters need me,’” the woman said in her victim impact statement. “A complete stranger heartlessly spit, beat and kicked me over 100 times just because of my heritage … My only hope is that God and the criminal justice system will see fit to make sure this never happens to any other innocent family again.”

#hate crime cw #anti-asian racism

[senadimell]

oof, the 1990s Agatha Christie’s Poirot is often very nice but it did NOT handle anything remotely east Asian with anything resembling tact.

#ugh ugh ugh it's played for laughs too #like not all of it's bigotry but it sure is racist #cw: racism #cw: anti-asian racism #now i'm not surprised anymore at the ridiculous market scene in turn left (doctor who / 2008) #anti-asian racism has persisted acceptably in film for way longer than it should #it's not taken as seriously by white audiences compared with anti-black racism #for example my parents are not okay with blackface in film but have no problem watching yellowface movies and see nothing wrong #re the tv show: #ew i'm honestly just like *do not ever mention china ever because you can't do it without being offensive* #and i get it. these are period pieces. but i guess i've grown accustomed to makers at least acknowledging the racism of the source #and making commentary on it or at least setting aside the most egregious parts #but here we are making broken english jokes and the audience is supposed to laugh at them?? #they're either lifting racism wholesale or worse adding it in #it's not charming

[punkeropercyjackson]

I am BEGGING Atla fans to stop trying to look for some ulterior motive Aang had with not killing Ozai.Aang didn't kill Ozai-dosen't kill anyone at AT ALL and NEVER SHOULD and NEVER WILL because HE'S A BUDDHIST!!!!!!!! No geek ass who's never even eaten authentic asian food instead of weeb shit has a say in a millenia old eastern religion,no speakie pookie!!!!

#aang #pro aang #aang defense squad #trans aang #genderfluid aang #autistic aang #pastel punk aang #aang has ptsd #aang has mdd #aang has adhd #kataang #pro kataang #t4t kataang #kataang defense squad #aang and zuko #azulaang #teoaang #atla geekery #buddhism #racism cw #poc #anti asian racism #westernization #moc #💌 #summerposting

[localratbastard-caden]

I just finished reading Four Treasures of the Sky and am bawling my eyes out

#this is why we can't have nice things #the executions devastated me #and finding master Wang’s calligraphy school had fallen apart in the epilogue #just crying uncontrollably #i hate reading #anyways y’all should read the book #it’s really good #cw for anti-Asian racism violence sex trafficking hate crimes sex work slurs sa and death

[spacelazarwolf]

Can i ask why people seem to only refer to black and brown people? I'm east Asian, and it can feel kind of bad not really being included in the language surrounding talk about racism. We're one of the groups that faces the most discrimination and hate crimes, especially with how covid started. Me and nearly every Asian person i know has faced racism over our lives and many of us have very pale skin. It feels very alienating to be, in a way, left out of the discussion. I understand that often we're included somewhat implicitly, but it doesn't look like it when the language doesn't represent it.

so before i get into it, i'm giving two caveats: 1. even though i'm jewish and my family and i have had a complicated history with being racialized as non white, i'm still racially white. so while i always try to take into account all the things that my family has experienced and that the people of color i know have taught me, that's still the individual perspective i'm speaking from. 2. i live in the us, so that's the culture and society i'm talking about. it may apply to different places in the west (or even outside the west idk) but it may not so like inb4 "#american centric" bc i am literally talking abt america.

re: your actual question of why people seem to only refer to black and brown people, i think it's mostly used to talk about issues that affect darker skinned people of color, but sometimes used as another variation of "people of color" that's meant to encompass all nonwhite people. i've definitely used it that way before without really thinking about it, but i can see how that could make groups who may not see themselves as being black or brown feel left out of a conversation that still absolutely pertains to them. i think we as a society are currently struggling with what vocabulary to use when we talk about racial issues. there's a bunch of different acronyms and phrases people use, and listing out all the different racial and ethnic groups we can think of always leaves someone out.

but i also think our struggles with vocabulary are caused in part by the way our view of race has become very black and white. especially when it comes to east asians, i think people fall way too easily for the model minority myth + think lighter skin = less oppression, so they think east asians don't need as much advocacy as other groups. but as you said, especially since covid, there's been a massive spike in anti asian racism, and that's something i don't think people are really taking seriously. there's this one scene in station 19 (cw for discussion of anti asian hate crimes) that i feel like addresses this so well. people are afraid to downplay the severity of anti black racism (which is understandable considering that anti black racism has been downplayed for hundreds of years), but they end up gaslighting other racial and ethnic minorities or even themselves about the other kinds of bigotry that exist. and as one of the characters states in the clip, "it's all bad."

and like, as a jewish person, i definitely feel a lot of solidarity with east asians because our struggles are dismissed in similar ways. for those of us who are light skinned, we're often told (in my experience, usually by non black people) that basically our skin is too light for people to care because "black people have it worse." people use any success our communities have had as a reason why what we experience Can't Possibly Be That Bad. but what they're missing is that it's all connected. the same people who are perpetuating anti blackness are likely perpetuating anti asian racism and antisemitism too. you can't get rid of anti black racism without dismantling white supremacy, and part of dismantling white supremacy is addressing anti asian racism and antisemitism. we can't just keep hacking away at one brick and expect the entire wall to come down. we have to bulldoze it all.

#ask avishai

[mrs-lockley]

it really annoys me whenever makeup companies release new products and when the models are light-skinned east-asians, everyone in the comments are saying "can you please put poc in your marketing campaign?/stop ignoring poc"

there are a couple reasons why this upsets me, and i just need to get this off my chest

rant under the cut. tw/cw anti-asian racism, colorism

colorism - i understand the frustration because as a medium, tan-skinned southeast asian woc, more than half the time, makeup companies use models who are on the pale to light-medium spectrum. i'm smack in the middle on medium and their swatches aren't accurate to me, and if i'm having a hard time finding swatches for someone who is medium-skinned (and i'm not even that dark to begin with), then i can only imagine how much harder it is for someone who is tan, dark, and deep-skinned. there's a reason why i don't wear foundation anymore. aside from it being a personal preference, it's hard to find the right undertones and shade for southeast asian skintones (even when the company is found by a woc, and don't get me started on the colorism in the asian beauty market). they're either too cool, neutral, or too yellow/orange if it's warm. there's a severe lack of brown asians and other tan/dark-skinned poc. poc come in all colors- there are dark-skinned asians, light-skinned asians, white passing poc, but no matter their phenotype, they are still poc. which leads me to my next point

anti-asian racism - for some odd reason (which is not odd at all!), in my personal experience, both white people and non-asian poc are quick to dismiss asians when talking about racism. when people complain (and i've seen non-asian poc and white people say this) in marketing campaigns with light-skinned poc (typically east asians) featured, they're quick to say "it would be nice if you included a poc." i'm getting so angry and frustrated writing this because this triggers me to think of the 20 years of casual racism i experienced in my life. when an east-asian or light-skinned asian poc is used as a model, you're essentially saying asians are not poc. ASIANS ARE POC, EVEN IF THEY ARE LIGHT-SKINNED. yes, there are light-skinned asians and yes, the asian/asian-american experience is different from latino and black experiences, and yes, i am aware that asian/asian-americans have privilege. and this is a topic for another time about the model minority myth and how it's used to pit asians against latinos and black people, but when you dismiss asians as poc, you're erasing their experience with systemic racism. not all of us are doctors, lawyers, and engineers. as a southeast asian, i never benefited from the model minority because i am not the "right" asian. a lot of south and southeast asian countries have painful histories of imperialism, colonialism, and in some cases, genocide. to blanket all asians as "model minorities" and implying that asians are not poc or "poc enough" is downright disrespectful, hurtful, and painful. when you are complaining about light-skinned asians as models in makeup marketing campaigns, do not dismiss us and say "oh i wish they used a poc as their model." ASIANS ARE POC! i understand the frustration as a tan southeast asian woman, but you're being dismissive about the asian experience. it triggers me because i think of all the casual racism i experienced throughout my childhood and when talking about it to my poc friends, 95% of the time, my non-asian poc friends have told me, and i quote, "you don't experience racism. asians are doing better than white people too, you have nothing complain about. you're the good stereotype!" is downright hurtful when my teachers have looked down on me for not being as academically smart as my east asian classmates and ignore all the hard work, blood, sweat, and tears i put into my assignments, when my classmates have casually asked me if i eat dog, when in college my white professor and white classmate were talking about the winter olympics and said it was weird that asians eat dog and i told them that it's not your domestic dog, but a dog farm similar to how there are chicken and pig farms, to which my professor looked me dead in the eye in front of the whole class, said "well how are you gonna know the difference when you see the dog down the street?" and have the ENTIRE CLASS laugh at you when you are the only asian in that class. when covid started, a non-asian poc looked at me and the asian girl i sat next to and said "I guess you can't eat dog anymore huh with covid." when in my online class, a classmate of mine posted a drawing of a bat that wrote in very loud letters, "WHO ATE THE BAT?" when an older non-asian poc that i considered a friend said they'd recognize my sister by how she looks and pulled their eyes at me, when my classmates said i didn't look "asian enough" and proceeded to pull their eyes at me. when attending research conferences in higher education talking about students of color in their retention rates, representation, and academics, being told explicitly and when i asked why asians aren't included when they talked about poc, they said "there is no data included or provided on asians, we didn't find it necessary to include them" despite showing data that they had a good amount of asians in their student demographic when other research shows that southeast asians tend to have high rates of dropping out of college.

when complaining about the lack of darker skinned models when a light-skinned asian is used, then say "please use a darker skinned model" instead of "please use a poc." BECAUSE ASIANS ARE POC!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot stress this enough! i understand that people mean well and don't mean any harm by it, but again, it's downright hurtful to ignore and dismiss asians as poc. just say "use a darker skinned model/poc." at best, this is a colorism issue.

i apologize if my post comes off as rude, but i'm frustrated at being dismissed and having my experiences ignored or erased. i am not making this a competition on which group experiences the most amount of racism.

i understand people mean well, but i am so tired of being dismissed and not included in activism, and when i do speak up, i'm ignored. i am a poc, i deserve to take up space and talk about my experience. i deserve to exist

[multiplicity-positivity]

https://www.tumblr.com/eeveecraft/723663056865017856/tulpa-and-cultural-appropriation?source=share

(cw/tw: mentions of tulpas, mentions of racism, (possibly) violent language, (possibly) mentions of syscourse/sysmed)

I saw this post here and thought I'd send it to you, not out of hate or because I think you have all the voice in the matter (I know you're a white system), but because I really wanted you to say what you think about this based on the experiences and testimonials of POCs you've heard.

(It's also ok if you don't want to answer, I completely understand! (genuine))

we saw that post. we don’t like it at all. it misconstrues and misrepresents what tulpamancy language critics are trying to say. it dismisses the accounts of buddhist people of color on account of them being minors, singlets, or “sysmeds” (despite the fact that many of the testimonies we’ve seen have been from systems who are in fact not system medicalists at all).

it contains a ton of fearmongering, false claims, and horrendous assumptions about those trying to have these conversations. it’s just a bad, bad post. we are working on a response to it on our syscourse sideblog, but since the post is so long and has so many glaring problems going on with it, it’s been taking us some time to put it together. we hope to have it out later this week.

we ourselves are pro tulpa as a practice, anti tulpa terminology. we won’t post our official response to eeveecraft’s post here. those who are interested may follow our syscourse sideblog @kipandkandicore if they’d like to stay up to date on our syscourse musings.

please use critical thinking when encountering posts like this. ask yourself:

why the insistence on such venomous language?

is the post aiming to educate, or put others down?

what resources are included? are they reliable?

what does the author have to gain from making this post? what are they risking (if anything)?

how have they addressed (or ignored) issues brought up by marginalized voices within the community?

does the post treat those involved with this discussion and the issue at hand with the nuance it deserves?

was the post made in good faith? why or why not? how can you tell?

and more. critical thinking is so important, and so is learning not to take posts at face value just because they say what you want to hear.

for those actually interested in listening to asian buddhists regarding this topic which directly concerns them, you can read more in our document which compiles the testimonies of those voices. we are always looking to add more - if you have a link you’d like to add or know of a post/article that isn’t represented, please get in touch and we will add it.

thank you very much!

🐢 kip, 🦇 alucard, and 🌸 margo

#syscourse #tulpamancy #tulpacourse

[eoieopda]

damn, people are so sad at times. bullying, throwing hate for no reason to people who have been nothing but nice to everyone, and putting them under a fire while bring anonymous themselves 99% of the time.

tumblr used to be such a comfort but that comfort is being replaced by anxiety, slowly. and i am sorry you had to go through part of that.

i’ve definitely gotten some p gross anonymous hobgoblins in my inbox, but i’m more concerned about the deteriorating vibes on this site from a general standpoint (primarily as an observer.) i do appreciate the concern, though! 💕

i shall engage in discourse under the cut because no one has solicited my take here. then, i will step off my soapbox and resume my usual thottin’ and boppin’ because being here with my silly little moots, feeding my silly little delusions is supposed 👏🏻 to 👏🏻 be 👏🏻 healing 👏🏻

cw: general reference to anonymous allegation of anti-asian/anti-korean racism in a fanfic (truly not discussed in any detail whatsoever because that’s not actually even the point here); discussion of anon hate & “cancel culture.”

protect your peace, y’all!

disclaimer: the bulk of the anon messages i’ve seen this week focus on allegations of anti-asian racism, specifically a scene in a fanfic where a bts member experiences racism & xenophobia in america. this anon crusade was the straw that broke the camel’s back (it’s me, i’m the camel) but it is absolutely not the only example of the problem here. as a reminder, things i am: a korean immigrant who lives in america. things i am not: a mouthpiece for 1) POC as a collective, non-white whole; 2) asians; 3) koreans; 4) korean immigrants; 5) korean immigrants in america; 6) immigrants, anywhere. literally *any* thought you see on this blog is me speaking my individual mind on my own, individual behalf.

i’ll start off by saying that i don’t have an issue with people going to creators and saying, “you did this thing, and i think it was harmful for xyz reason.” i don’t have an issue with people doing that anonymously, either. this kind of interaction isn’t inherently toxic.

for example, in january (i think?) i discovered jackson wang, thought he was a babe, and dug his music. i wrote a drabble that featured him. shortly thereafter, i got an anon message that (essentially) asked why i would post a drabble about him because he was problematic.

the short version of that answer is that i didn’t know anything about what the anon was referring to. however, because this person brought the issue to my attention, discourse ensued and i did learn about it. ultimately, i came to agree with the original anon that he was not a person i wanted featured on my blog/in my content. the lesson was learned; the drabble was deleted; and things were resolved (in that i got no additional anon messages about this, etc.)

unfortunately, that situation appears to be a statistical anomaly. now, there are hate blogs focused on bts content creators (which is exactly as stupid as it sounds.) i won’t say the name of the blog because i think it’s like a “bloody mary” situation and i do not wish to summon that buffoonery and goonery into my space, now or ever.

i would just….. really, really like a mission statement to explain what the hell the purpose of these blogs and anonymous crusades is supposed to be.

it’s clearly not to meaningfully address conflict and promote changed behavior because the anonymous bombardment continues even after targeted users begin taking accountability & remedial measures. and if that’s supposed to be the goal, i can’t wrap my brain around why no one on those blogs is permitting that process to occur.

so, if no space/time is given for anything constructive to happen, the only purpose i can identify for these blogs is to ceaselessly criticize people whether or not it’s constructive — regardless of the target’s response — until the person they’ve set their sights on feels so beaten down that they ultimately leave the platform.

i’m serious — what does that solve? who does that help?

definitely not the marginalized groups these anons are purporting to advocate for because, from where i’m sitting, this kind of anon swarming just muddies the message and exacerbates the problem.

no one is going to want to try harder or know better if this is what they’re met with, even when they try to respond in good faith. no one in the relevant, marginalized group benefits, either, because someone that could evolve as an ally just got fucking clobbered.

*if you’re in that marginalized group and you disagree with the anons, you’re an “apologist,” “ass-eater,” etc. so, it seems that not all of our voices matter? what was that about speaking over POC (specifically, in this instance, asians)? 🤔

like, do these anons actually want people to learn/change, or do they want a public execution? those things are mutually exclusive.

since the latter is what their ham-fisted tactics result in, i think that was always the goal. and i hate that. i don’t think that makes anything better — for anyone.

#tw anon hate #tw bullying #tw racism #tw anti-asian racism #tw xenophobia #jade speaks #anon #jade engages in discourse #goddamn it #not again